I've been away doing Christmas stuff and I come back to see new is 99% shitposts, with only my own post and the one before this not being one.
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It's not even shitposting, it's just spam.
In some thread somewhere our janny mentioned a potential requirement for >1 month account age to get posting privileges. Something like that could work, although I'd replace it with a comment karma threshold because that's somewhat harder to do, but either way, I don't think there's an automod available here like there is on reddit, and without that, it doesn't really matter because the spam is still going to keep shitting up the frontpage until Domitius gets to it, and we can't expect him to be here 24/7. (Can we?)
Oh and if we're potentially restricting post privileges, how about finally FIXING THIS CLUSTERFUCK OF A RULESET?!
The rules are ridiculous. I see Dom is doing 0-day nukes for spammers, which is the right thing, so why do we have all this crap?
Most of them fall under buckets of illegal (already covered by ToS), spam, or anti-botting measures.
Of the remaining, Rule 16 is used to delete too much content. But although I get that this isn't a free speech forum, a lot of it falls under anti-brigading measures already being utilized so we could have some leniency here.