While you have a point, this process may make it harder to be a troll. Nowadays you can be a troll anywhere and anytime you want, specially online. I'm curious how this approach may benefit those who share their plain thoughts without the fear of being automatically targeted by trolls looking for triggered responses and tribal support.

"While you have a point, this process may make it harder to be a troll."

Trolls are not lazy. If anything, their efforts are hype fixated.

I think it's a little more complicated than that. Trolls are often very fixated on their targets but they also tend to be impulsive and looking for quick fixes of glory. This is why things like shadow banning and slow modes and signup waiting periods work pretty well on them. Very few have the patience to wait for a fresh sock account that's limited to be useful.

"I think it's a little more complicated than that." Agreed, but decades of observation tell me there is more than enough supply across the shitpost to troll spectrum to go around :)

I have a friend with millions of followers on social media. She gets all kinds of disgusting private messages all the time. The worst trolls aren’t publicly commenting (or at least aren’t solely publicly commenting), they message you directly as long as you leave an avenue open.

In its current form, in addition to the lack of public comments, you can also turn off the Replies (DMs) on each post, which will stop trolls from reaching you.

I'm hoping this will be sufficient, although it will end up blocking out good conversations/replies as well.

I'm not sure how to handle it better.