Post #1424767

> What’s the actual point of holding someone back from joining your online community if they don’t have enough “points” on their comments or posts? It is a legitimate anti-abuse tactic. Like you've mentioned, there are obvious flaws, but it does help prevent brigadiers, advertisers and other bad actors from easily spinning up throwaways to harass or manipulate a community. Another way to do this could be account age testing, but this can be defeated by pre-registering empty accounts.