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[–] ghotioninabarrel ago  (edited ago)

As Pao? I'd hire a few college students to use VPNs to spam all sorts of shit all over voat. Some just annoying but also a bit of stuff that's illegal wherever voat is getting its servers hosted. Then I'd have them start reporting everything in sight, especially innocuous stuff, to voat admins as being child porn or whatever. Eventually, voat admins will get frustrated (remember to use a VPN so no ip blocking) and stop responding. Then report some real cp (probably posted by the same students with different accounts+ips) and now there's "evidence" that voat admins aren't removing cp. Send that to police everywhere and try to get creators arrested + website shut down.

As voat? 2 possible responses if we figure out what's happening in time.

Response 1: Timeouts. Place timeouts on submissions and on reporting submissions. A new account can only submit every X CCP until it reaches a certain threshold. This also applies to reporting. It isn't necessary to completely stop the spam tide, just to slow it down since the captchas require humans and humans are slow+expensive.

Response 2: Verification. Make email verification a requirement. Restrict accounts per email and require verification over a 24 hour period to break temporary email services. Monitor new email and account names for patterns like regularly incrementing numbers/letters, and flag for review. Forcing the spammers to think will slow them down significantly.

Also, in addition to the 2 above: Solicit more donations, hire dedicated staff just to handle reports if that becomes necessary.