>>109723
Well sure, mitigating bots and griefers is harder than ever but I don't see how moving platforms changes things drastically even if planning ahead.
First and foremost, the mods over here have been doing a great job keeping those at bay. I more or less nolife a bunch of tabs with social media during work hours and hardly ever see any spam or posts with unapproved media that gets deleted here. Those that don't frequent the site as much aren't probably even aware some kind of bot keeps posting links to cp here.
Never saw any "janitors needed" messages and assumed it's been fine.
Granted, there has clearly been an uptick of posts by some kind of ghouls that smelled the blood on the water but tbqh that's just the consequence of the way the news have been dropped.
IPv6 isn't a problem either imo v4s are plenty there doesn't seem to be a way to achieve good enough accuracy through fingerprinting without also getting a lot of false positives. Or is it possible to issue pinpoint, ~100% accurate, hardware bans when running your own matrix/xmpp instance? Not too familiar with the intricacies of those. It would probably be limited to the same webrtc fingerprinting method that certain imageboards now use for bot detection afaik.
^ tldr moderation is a thankless job but from a regular user's perspective the board looks spotless, so are baddies really an issue?
Secondly, I can't really name any instances where withdrawing into an invite-only platform has made any community flourish. Maybe these do exist but we wouldn't know, would we? And if we don't know a community exists, how can we join it? And if we do discover it, what are the incentives do jump through the hoops? Compared to just using X or reddit or something. A community can carry on like that for a while but would it grow? And without growth and replenishment there is attrition and stagnation. Imo the effort required to nurture something like that far outweighs having to occasionally delete another "new ki ds https:ki.ds/jdahsdj" threads that no one pays attention to anyway.
What comes to mind instead is Kiwifarms. Afaik account registration is only open during the hours the owner is around and he manually vets each application. Can't imagine that being good for his mental well-being, that sounds miserable af. I'd understand if it was a premium torrent tracker or something but being scrutinized just to be allowed to gossip? Who even signs up for this?
>>109725
The current system seems good for the most part imo, at least from a regular user's perspective.
Considered making an account initially just to speed things up but most of the time the images are approved almost immediately even after my IP changes so it's a non-issue. There's definitely room for making things more strict if things turn to worse but I haven't seen any reason to (again as someone with no elevated permissions).
Don't know how the mod system is set up on jschan but could imagine certain improvements can be made e.g. poster trust scores, different levels of board lockdowns, certain automod actions that are applied at a random delay to imitate a human mod intervention etc. it would never be absolutely effective vs someone both competent and determined, but again without some fancy hardware ban tech everything can be bypassed. 4chan already tried going the way of twelve captchas plus email verification (from a list of reputable domains) with fake error messages on suspicious attempts and those still get botted.
Regulars should probably still be invited to make an account "just in case", so that it can be used as fallback though.
