Kind of "account reputation" filter

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Title
Kind of "account reputation" filter

Short, concise description of the idea
"Allow comments only from X months old created accounts" or "Allow comments only from users with more than XX posts" option

Full description of the ideaSpam accounts (or spammers) create a mass of "one-day" accounts, usually created within 2-3 weeks (or less) before spam

Comments

[charliemc]

It sounds like it might be a pain to code, actually. And some people are good to comment from day one, in my experience.

We all have the ability to filter who can comment right now, so I don't know if this is really a necessary addition...

[lied_ohne_worte]

Yeah, the comment spam you occasionally see on the site is generally from anonymous sources and can be prevented without the measures in this suggestion.

[gerg]

Any system with numbers we use to detect bots will just make the bots adapt so they post 100 gibberish posts first, or wait 3 weeks first, or whatever.

This wouldn't do anything to solve the spam problem, unfortunately.

Edit: Also, what duskwuff said.

[turlough]

+1

[februaryfour]

Interesting idea, but could people make exceptions for it (eg if one of my friends joins on my urging, and I want to exempt them from this requirement)?

[azurelunatic]

With something like this, you'd want it to apply to users who were not on your friends list, so if you'd added them, it would be no problem.

[trempnvt]

It's an interesting idea, but not worth the inconvenience to new real users.