[CoastalCoder]

I think for that to be meaningful, there would need to be some mechanism to prevent fly-by-night operations formed to isolate the liability.

Maybe requiring them to post a large bond (proportional to the liability) and/or have insurance?

[supertrope]

Yeah. Robocaller fines are almost never paid. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/fcc-fined-roboca...

[CoastalCoder]

Could someone explain why the reply from @calimac was killed?

I'm guessing it has something to do with the snowshoe-spamming reference, but I'm totally in the dark.

[probably_wrong]

The user is probably blacklisted due to bad past behavior. You can vouch for individual comments, though.

[rootusrootus]

Banned by sctb on Oct 16, 2016 for political ranting.

[CoastalCoder]

Wouldn't being banned prevent them from posting?

Or does it just insta-kill all their posts?

[rootusrootus]

It just marks all of their posts dead. If you have showdead:on set then you can see them, and choose to vouch for individual posts if they add value to the conversation.