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by smusamashah 98 days ago
Will removing the incentive, which is the upvotes, help reduce this spam? You can disable public access to the points gained by a new account (or may be for every account).

Or if the ranking that's attractive to spammer, may be try experimenting with randomizing order of comments in a discussion.

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What I hope not to see is the Reddit method of "Oh you made a new account? Cool. You can't post anywhere and you can't post until you've posted catch 22"