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Alright, why cant I just make my own instance? And then I can have a new account for every post, every comment, every vote, every everything, individually, completely random. How do you fix that?
Are you going to be hyper strict on people's first comments? So say someone's first comment on lemmy ever is voted negative. Are they just instantly banned? Not a very welcoming interaction.
That's exactly the solution, yes. If you've never posted before, and you make a comment that gets a few downvotes, your comment is removed, and you get a polite note saying that you don't have enough interactions to be able to post yet. A lot of subreddits do exactly the same thing, for exactly the same reason.
I still don't have that part of the system worked out, because it's only come up a couple of times. It hasn't even happened enough to give a good test run to the code. I've been tweaking the code every time it comes up, because it's not quite right yet, but it's been happening so rarely that it's not even really an issue. It would have been easier to moderate the throwaway comments by hand, to be honest.