Due to the recent spate of spam porno posts I've added new rules to the community filter, thanks to help from u/Graphenium and u/C.
Going forward an account may not make a post on Conspiracies if it is younger than 7 days AND has less than 200 points.
Let me know suggestions or what you think below. That should take care of spammers. Older accounts would still be able to spam, but once banned they would not able to just create a new one and continue.
I'll add a note to the sidebar about this so as not to discourage genuine good-faith new users, who will now be unable to post till their accounts meets those requirements.
I really don't want to discourage new people from posting here, which is an effect even those relatively low filters may have.
I definitely understand. But posting comments first and engaging with the community that way is really good proof that a user is going to be legitimate. It forces shills/bots to expend energy they really don’t want to, and that’s generally discouragement enough. Obvious spam in comments is less disruptive than dozens of spam submissions. We’ll see.