@prologic@twtxt.net I definitely do not think Amazon Mechanical Turk is the solution, that’s for sure.
In all seriousness, this would do it for me for now:
- Some kind of slide-to-submit captcha at registration time (which I think can be made accessible if that’s a concern),
- A simple interface to delete more than one user at a time and to find inactive users
The 2nd one could be as simple as letting me enter a comma-separated list of usernames into the delete user field. It’d be even better if there were a way to search for users who’ve registered but never posted (obviously more filters would make it more useful, but that one alone is MVP for me). I have no trouble doing this search with a command-line tool to save the time/effort of making a nice UI for it.
Regarding the 1st one, I don’t think the users registering on my pod are bots. There are too few of them, they don’t post anything, and there’s already a barrier to entry slowing down bots. So I’d down-prioritize that one for the time being, frankly. It’s probably something to have in the works in case there ever is a flood of bots, obv.