Comment by judge2020
5 years ago
On the other side of there are bots that impersonate users to send spam or raid servers to overrun moderation and “DoS” the server’s communication. Part of the value proposition of running on Discord or Slack is that they handle offloading a large amount of user verification/spam prevention and moderation tooling. The only one you really have to do is manage rules and have some sort of rotation so at least one moderator is online to handle potential issues.
Is this the only viable solution today? Fully opt in to a provider that isn’t user friendly?
For a free service maybe ok, but then you typically shouldn’t have the bot problem to such an extent if it’s small enough.
For a paid service: no way, please find a way around this or I’ll find a way around your service as soon as a problem pops up and causes me extra inconvenience just to sign up.