-1: We need to unify the entire account system around one thing: We should basically automatically register the user and assign them an internal account using a cookie.

0: True Anonymous' trust scores will function off these internal accounts. This is non-negotiable. Users who try to post without a cookie will be heavily limited. Limits should also somehow try to be per-IP and overall per session.

0.5: Try to do funny tricks to catch ban evaders with these cookies.
Now the idea is that clearing your cookies may prevent you from catching an automatic evasion ban, but now you're back to square one with being unable to post really fast!


1: bring back [TOR], [VPN], and [DATACENTER] tags
2: bring back GeoTags [US-CA] / [NL] & perhaps turn them into flags like 4chan has it
3: Trust score system needs to be like how it was before, with it dynamically adjusting based on multiple heuristics involving age, behavior and overall activity on the site
^ This impacts accounts, trippasses, and true anonymous users

Zanno from the chatrooms said:
>they should append those 6,jFJkksPP type ids they use on pol and bant
>so we can at least keep the anons straight during a session
>maybe a 4 digit hex code would be plenty, or even 2 or 3
>Anon #3AF9 released for good behavior

This is a good idea.

Just like how verifying your email or getting a Pass on 4chan allows users to post more (or with less restriction), the act of just making a TripPass and using that allows users to grant themselves more poster ability by interacting with the site and biasing trust score heuristics in their favor without compromising any privacy.

The execution goes something like this

1 - new user visits the site for the first time
2 - browses the site and reads the chat for a while, opening up new pages and making new network requests over a period of time, which "primes" his internal account, but only a little bit
3 - he can post, but maybe has a terrible rate limit. Eventually, the more times he comes back, browses, and participates, the more flexible this rate limit becomes.

There probably isn't a massive difference between this internal account and a TripPass, but the fact that TripPasses can persist across browsers and devices likely still make it reasonable to keep.
TripPass accounts could probably accumulate trust more than temporal cookie-based true anonymous accounts.

1 - driveby spammer visits the site for the first time
2 - immediately goes to the chat or forum, ZERO trust and 100% unfamiliarity
3 - attempts to spam, gets cucked by extremely low rate limit (has to wait a minute between posts)
4 - probably gets banned immediately, tries to hop IPs but gets automatically fucked for ban evasion

The site should also take recent bans into consideration when new identities are seen on the site. If someone gets banned, or multiple people who are spamming or are posting similar things get banned or anything like that, and then a new identity is spotted on the site, it's probably reasonable to say that this new identity is likely an extension of the other people who have just gotten banned

Spam in general should be approached intelligently.
An overall emphasis on shadowbanning should be taken, so that way, there's a longer period of time between malicious users being banned and them realizing they were banned. We should take advantage of heuristics and monitoring to try to determine if they have friends looking at the site to inform them of their shadow-ban status.

An alternative approach to shadowbanning could also be the automatic deletion of all posts and messages after an unspecified random amount of time. This allows the malicious user to post while they are under the assumption that they have not been banned, and that there are simply moderators who are constantly deleting everything, while in reality, they are posting into the void and fighting nobody.

I do not think we should allow TripPass or True Anons to hide their country/state or proxy status.