Comment by d6e
8 days ago
What if we charged a small toll for comments. We create a web standard where you can precharge an amount to your browser account, then you get charged $0.02 for making a comment. The price could be progressively raised until the spammers stop. The profit could pay for website hosting. This would be affordable for users but prohibitively expensive for spammers.
https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
I seem to remember MS having this idea for email many years ago.
The problem originates from LLM service so the toll needs to be on LLM usage in a way that doesn't harm legitimate users but makes it unprofitable to abuse in bulk.