NZ Off topic

I find it hard to believe that peddit needs you to have a certain amount of karma to post or have an account that is X days old. The CEO of Gab says he blocked pretty much all spam, simply by blocking ip addresses of third world countries. Then he blocked Israel and all the porn bots stopped attacking.

Users of the Peddit website will argue that we need ai moderation and strict rules - but if you just block India, Bangladesh and a few other countries it stops 99% of spam. Of course peddit will never do this because "muh rassisms" and Big Peddit won't do it either because "muh profits" but the evidence speaks for itself.

Next time somebody tells you that you can't block pornography, tell them that Gab has achieved that already. A website where you can sign up, post right away, with no restrictions, yet I never see spam or pornography on gab. I only notice accounts that like and repost which appear inauthentic, but at least they aren't flooding groups.

Peddit exaggerates the amount of bots and intelligence operations as an excuse to crack down on anyone with a new account. There's really no reason to limit new accounts. It's kind of control freaky.