How can Fluther deter bots/trolls/ne'er-do-wells?

Here’s one thought that has occurred to me during the present onslaught: allowing us, perhaps with a special key, to see old posts of returning banned members. We may be able to trace patterns and recognize repeat offenders before they do much damage. I wanted to do that today, but the posts of the past user I suspected have been blocked.

Of course, any ideas posted here are visible to anyone, signed in or not.

I would gladly pay an one time fee of $2 or so. In order to make a paper trail, and so we could take legal action.

I would say ban the IP address but he is using a VPN like bitifender or Nord. I think we should ban the location if they are from Russia, then cut off support for Russia.

Could fluther go by their email address? He can’t have that many different email addresses can he? I saw he was changing like every few minutes there for a while and wow was he fast at becoming “different” aliases!

Sadly there is little currently to make them stop. One can only recognize their play and ploy and ignore. Ignore it like the spam and phishing in email.

@Dig_Dug that sounds like a good idea but they could make another email account.

@KRD Yeah, I suppose you’re right, but darn he was “so many people” all in such a short time.