[stevenicr]

certainly requiring a cc and charging money would get people to upload less, but 'the problem' would not go away. Not at $1 and not at $10.

I've run into some of these revenge post people - and they would pay $10, and they'd do it every week.

Heck some service would crop up to pay someone in country X to upload to 10 different sites every week for $20 with bulletproof hosting and darknet distribution for $50 - and most of these revenge folks would pay that.

I get your sentiment, and I'm pretty sure phub has already cut into uploading in more ways than that already, and they have certainly lost money and traffic with the changes they voluntarily pushed out a while back.

They deleted way more than the non-knowledge uploads, and making it harder for sharing is giving the other tubes an advantage and growth (at their expense) the past so many moons.

[markdown]

> I've run into some of these revenge post people - and they would pay $10, and they'd do it every week.

No they wouldn't, because the upload would no longer be anon, and they'd be charged under a revenge porn law.

[stevenicr]

in my small data point experience in real life - the offender was using vpns and burner phones to post and to harass with different numbers in one case here locally.

I've also unfortunately discovered that there are services that handle this kind of thing; using a stolen ID from a different country to do these things for you - trust me when I tell you that those who really want to bypass all the auths / payments / hashes - will find ways to do it again and again.

I've also tracked down some of these folks and was very plainly told that "the army of my country was not going to invade their country to harass them" for harassing someone here - and they were right.

After spending months putting together verifiable evidence to hand over to agencies in neighboring countries and countries abroad, zero people were arrested.

I did get one person's VPN account disabled once though!

They did return the next day using a new vpn service. So yeah, there are jerks out there that will spend $10 a week, or $50 a week to harass people, I've witnessed it many times.

Anyone you would catch doing something like this (using their own credit card and phone/computer) would already be caught with basic ip logs - no need to set all the extra hoops that make it harder for the average user, because those hoops are not stopping those who are extra shady in the first place. imho, ysmv.

[dillondoyle]

It might just optimize for that profit too