How to Handle Suspicious Users in Online Communities
Question to the crowd ❔ When you see new members who join your open community who look like this, how do you react?
Note: I have INTENTIONALLY left this spammer’s email in here. Please do not reach out to them. I’m showing it here because it’s part of the identification process when looking at spammers.
This particular user didn’t start spamming until 3-4 AM in the morning here on EST time, so it’s nearly impossible for me to react in real-time. So I guess my question is which camp do you fall in and why:
When you see suspicious users, should you remove them immediately?
When you see suspicious users, do you give them the benefit of the doubt until something bad happens?
Could technology fix this in any way, or at least make it simpler?
