🥷 Spammers and Scammers - Is a minimal 💰 paywall the solution??

There seems to be an increasing number of bad actors playing in here, with all manner of nefarious reasons for joining and posting (or rather commenting). Private messages have now been blocked for lower than level 3 (I believe), But I am wondering if a $1 paywall to join the community might be a necessary solution to try and at least slow them down?

I think that it might cause friction for a number of people who genuinely want to join and get value from the community, and maybe an answer could also be that you can join and see all the free content for free, but to be able to even comment and engage in the community you need to pay a minimal fee.

I don't know the full community goals that

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and the Admins have, but I do know that it's not only getting increasingly annoying, but also creating risk for the genuine community members who are here to get value out of all the discourse that happens here.

What do you think?

I'd support a minimal ($1?) paywall to join the community

I wouldn't join if I had to pay anything

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🥷 Spammers and Scammers - Is a minimal 💰 paywall the solution??