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Daerdread t1_irgq5cp wrote

I agree it won't mitigate it completely, but it'll take care of the low effort ones. Dismissing the idea completely is naive.

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itsMalarky t1_iri9peo wrote

Even if this mass conspiracy to buy reddit accounts to comment on a fairly inactive sub is true, the "account age" solution would AT LEAST make it more expensive.

Banning political posts would be a serious mistake

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akmjolnir t1_irip3ru wrote

It can't hurt to filter out the accounts that are only a few months old. Or have suspiciously low comment counts.

Edit: pretty much exactly like yours.

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