Re:Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from re...
by xirium on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @07:18PM
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> after serious scalability and trolling problems arose, they reverted to regular slashcode.
That's very pertinent because reddit haven't released code to reduce spam:
From the article: There are a few portions of the code that we're keeping to ourselves, mostly related to anti-cheating/spam protection.
Anyone deploying their own instance of the reddit code will have to develop their own protection against spam, trolling and rigged voting.
In Spain we have http://barrapunto.com much smaller but also using slashcode. IIRC there are also two more instances, one of them in Portugal.
Barrapunto added its own features for a long time, but they weren't incorporated to main branch, and after serious scalability and trolling problems arose, they reverted to regular slashcode.