Korean Trolls Get A Ten Post Limit

from the choose-your-trolling-carefully dept

Fri, Apr 7th 2006 1:28pm — Mike Masnick

As any "open forum" provider learns soon enough (assuming it has some amount of traffic), spam and trolls come as part of the bargain. Over the years, different providers have taken different strategies to deal with them, but the popular Korean portal Naver is trying something new: you only get to post 10 times a day -- which could certainly cut some flame wars short. Of course, this still seems like the type of thing that the really persistent spammer and troll would be able to get around, just by setting up multiple user accounts (or even figuring out ways to share "leftover" posting inventory from others who aren't using up their limit).

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COD, 7 Apr 2006 @ 1:34pm

Maybe some enterprising user of the board will open up a market in leftover posting credits.
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COD, 7 Apr 2006 @ 2:52pm

Disallowed
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AMOS, 7 Apr 2006 @ 3:06pm

my penie hurts.
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kraziejason, 7 Apr 2006 @ 3:10pm

Well the forums I attend, mostly gay bear type only allow hardcore chats in certain areas. You are not limited to a certain number of poster per timespan, you are limited only by your imagination.
sometimes I log in under an alias and have a public cyber with myself, like cyberbation.
But I dont like korean boys unless theyre doing my cuticles, they get so bitchy when you ram it down their throat.
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Anonymous Coward, 7 Apr 2006 @ 3:18pm

Hmm... One per day sometimes seems to be too many, looking at the posts above me.

More seriously, although I enjoy the free-wheeling anarchy of the web, the most pleasant forum I post at has fairly tyrannical mods who will ban at the drop of a hat, and require everybody to post with their full name. It vastly improves conduct.
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Gabriel Mendoza, 7 Apr 2006 @ 8:09pm

Re:
rofl brilliant, you made that up? lol

id say you throttle if its like goatse spam.
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ME too, 9 Apr 2006 @ 12:11am

ya
10posts a day will keep spammers away and losers away, who needs to be spending that much time on a forum?!

wut is a troll anyways, never heard that expression before..?
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mercifuljes, 9 Apr 2006 @ 10:58am

I didnt know what a troll was until someone called me one in the little irc chatbox in Multi Theft Auto SA, aparently I was telling the n00bs all the good console cmds.
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Shannon, 10 Apr 2006 @ 7:04am

Re: ya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
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lilwip, 10 Apr 2006 @ 7:07am

Re: Re:
What make you think he made that up???? Who are you to judge his lifestyle choices...
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