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		woah on Dec 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trust-based moderation systems Won't stop the problem. There is an inexhaustible supply of real people who are willing to help game any system for ideology or entertainment.

MichaelZuo on Dec 11, 2023 [–]

It's trivial to store a ban list of several billion User IDs in memory. That's only a few tens of GB.

As long as it can be guaranteed that one specific individual can only ever create one account, it's not a problem at all.

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