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Please stop blocking VPNs for established accounts (self.support)

submitted 7 months ago by Zak to c/support

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I often use a commercial VPN service, which I suspect is not rare among Lemmy users. Most of the time, I'm able to post to lemmy.world, but on occasion I am not. The default web UI provides zero feedback, just a spinning submit button forever, but if I look in the browser dev tools, I can see it's being blocked.

I understand that some limitations are necessary to prevent spam and other abuse, however this is a very blunt instrument. The fact that I have a 10 month old account with consistent activity should outweigh any IP address reputation issues.

Perhaps the VPN limitations could be narrowed in scope to cover only account creation and posts from young accounts.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The fact that I have a 10 month old account with consistent activity should outweigh any IP address reputation issues.

I dont even know where to begin unpacking this flagrantly ridiculous sentence, but I’ll just say this is the same energy as the “devs are lazy” entitlement when popular video games suddenly acquire a cheater problem

[–] Zak 5 points 7 months ago

Proposing changes like this is how open source projects work.

Account age and reputation metrics are a pretty good way to limit abuse because the supply of established accounts is limited, making them difficult to replace when they get banned.

[–] elbarto777 2 points 7 months ago

Lol nice trolling attempt!

For anyone else reading, I'm a dev, and I didn't get any "devs lazy" vibe from the OP.

It's a sensible request, not a ridiculous one.