Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
by tomjen3 on Thursday February 13, 2020 @03:39PM
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I have given this some consideration, and what I ended up with is super low tech: require a user registration where users can't just sign up for N accounts and limit all accounts to 10 MB a day. Too little to share any meaningful binary data and way more than a person can type in a day.
Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
by shadowgovt on Thursday February 13, 2020 @04:04PM
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It's a good idea. What stops a user from registering for N accounts? How do you tie one account to one human?
Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
by tomjen3 on Thursday February 13, 2020 @04:49PM
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In my original consideration you could only sign up with government ID -- actually the original problem was what to do prior to the day reddit banned your community, so that you could keep going.
In either case it was pretty trivial to picky bag of existing IDs, if I ever solve that for the general case, you will find out.
You can mathematically prove atop Shannon's theorem that if the system can transmit comprehensible text information between two users, it can transmit binaries. Worst-case scenario, the users could use the text information layer to just say 'one, zero, one, one, zero, one' at each other, etc.
(Socially banning them can certainly "work," in the same sense that social banning works in any context: pushes it underground out of the moderators' lines of sight. Depending on what you're trying to accomplish, that can be good enough).