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Make "once a day" a hard rule
I don't want to over explain this, i think the benefit is obvious. It drastically limits what scammers can do.
You get one shot per day (date not hour count who cares THAT much)
That can suck if you're in need but you ask once a day, make your case, and at least if people find you beneath help or scamming it isn't breaking the comm
That plus what's suggested in the op
Hard enforcement of once-a-day
For real no scammer will thrive that choked
+1
I too have tried to stay hands off when it comes to suspicious behavior, simply because you never know what someone is going through or how desperate they are and the user consensus last time definitely echoed that sentiment. But it seems like we may need some small extra safeguards to filter out the worst bad actors and help people feel comfortable donating.
Yeah I move to second this idea. I get it it's really rough out there, but people have been coming in here with zero community engagement asking for money and it's scared off others from asking for help. It's a tough call, because no one should go without aid, but on the other hand, gotta defend yourself.
All of this sounds good and I know the rules for the comm were made in good faith but they did make it more difficult to call out stuff like this
Should this be moved to feedback?
Good point, I think the conversation can start here until a proposal is developed (shouldn't be too hard) and then taken to feedback at that point.
Regardless of rules you're going to have scammers. For every real person that needs help you'll have 10 that are just preying on people's emotions.
It would be ideal to move in a direction thag changes the ratio from 9-in-10 toward like 2-in-10 or something.
You're asking for people to change and that's not likely to happen.
What are you on about? It's not about making people change, it's about filtering out at least the very low effort scammers.