News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Progress on addressing online abuse. Parent comment

Re:Progress on addressing online abuse by joezydeco on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:47PM (#12962537)
By suspending his account, the user will just create another and continue annoying the very same people that had blocked him already.

Why can't Twitter do what Metafilter does? $5 to sign up and a 24 hour delay on any posting.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Progress on addressing online abuse by ionforce on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @01:13PM (#12969675)
I like the idea of that kind of approach (maybe not for Twitter), but I don't have any experience with it.

How is it working out for Metafilter?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Progress on addressing online abuse by joezydeco on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @01:14PM (#12969690)
I think it works pretty well. Granted, Metafilter is also heavily moderated to prevent conversation derails and general abuse, but that's also what the money pays for (not like money is a problem for TWTR, or is it?)

I don't believe the payment is used towards enforcing identity (MeFi values privacy and anonymity when needed) and locating abusers, but if things got really bad I don't see why that would be a huge problem.

[ Parent | on HN ]