Only if done on a small scale. When it becomes the norm, and all the subreddits are doing it, then it becomes impossible to start a new account and build up the necessary karma to meet these thresholds.
Worse, it’s a limit easily bypassed by bots. Spammers can start accounts and just let them sit on a shelf for a year prior to using them. They can farm karma by just reposting stolen content.
Oh, and of course, the real spammers simply buy up existing accounts with years of history to them and turn them into subtle spam bots.
its pretty much difficult to even make an account as a normal user anyways.
i was on another forum discussing all this, and yea they buy all differently aged, karma accounts, in the hundreds to thousands at a time, they also have to use proxies and something called anti-detect browsers, and devices to evade the reddit filters. it has to be set up in a specific ways, because reddit is sophisticated enough to detect these other methods.
Totally reasonable moderation policy tbh
Only if done on a small scale. When it becomes the norm, and all the subreddits are doing it, then it becomes impossible to start a new account and build up the necessary karma to meet these thresholds.
Worse, it’s a limit easily bypassed by bots. Spammers can start accounts and just let them sit on a shelf for a year prior to using them. They can farm karma by just reposting stolen content.
Oh, and of course, the real spammers simply buy up existing accounts with years of history to them and turn them into subtle spam bots.
its pretty much difficult to even make an account as a normal user anyways.
i was on another forum discussing all this, and yea they buy all differently aged, karma accounts, in the hundreds to thousands at a time, they also have to use proxies and something called anti-detect browsers, and devices to evade the reddit filters. it has to be set up in a specific ways, because reddit is sophisticated enough to detect these other methods.
In fact, Reddit could pull a Stack Overflow and enforce it on the entire site.