We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by throwaway85825 on Thursday January 22, 2026 @06:51AM (#46718067)

Usually the protection against such spam is social shame but the internet is now full of people who have no shame because shame was never part of their culture. It would be more effective to use GeoIP in this case.

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by com on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:59AM (#46718670)

It’s not just the Internet. It’s politicians and businesspeople and more generally, shameless citizens.

There’s a lot to dislike about shame as an enforcement mechanism but I’m starting to miss some of the upside it delivered.

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by direwolf20 on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:34AM (#46718423)

Internet reputation became easy to launder, thus meaningless.

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by brikym on Thursday January 22, 2026 @06:36PM (#46726541)

I wonder how much of it could be stopped just by charging $5 a month to contribute to public open source repos. Even if github gave the $5 back in LLM credits or something it would at least put up a barrier. The reason there is so much traffic from third world countries is because the cost of accessing the internet is effectively zero.

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Re:We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste o... by OGEnthusiast on Thursday January 22, 2026 @06:39PM (#46726567)

GitHub has zero incentive to do this because it would hurt their analytics/metrics.

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