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Getting a sitewide link permaban is the highest honor that Reddit can give to a website.

I heard there's a future plan to let communities be "merged"? So you could make a sbcgaming and retrohandhelds and have them be merged.

Also, people are more likely to search for sbcgaming.

I used a custom captcha for my personal WordPress blog. It eliminated all the spam. (Fun fact: The spammers know how to work around most anti-spam WordPress plugins. If you roll your own, they aren't going to update their spambot for one blog.)

I also used a custom captcha at work. We couldn't use 3rd party filters because it was marking our customers' comments as spam! The custom captcha also eliminated all the spam.

There's also a problem with using 3rd party spam services. You have to give them all your data. You also usually have to pay for it, which can be a problem when you're working for people with a tiny budget.

The lesson is that you don't put time and energy into something unless you own the website. If you're serious about moderating your own lemmy community, get your own domain, get your own hosting, and set it up yourself.

It doesn't make sense until you wind up flooded with so many posts that people can't keep track of them all.

Jimbo Wales from Wikipedia said "It takes 5 users to keep a website active". For the foreign-language Wikipedia clones, the ones that had at least 5 users did well. The ones that didn't have 5 users just died.

I'm not sure it's even max monetization. If they said "For $2/month, you get no ads and you can give your favorite app 10,000 calls a month.", that probably would have been more revenue.

That's pretty standard licensing. "If you're using the API to train an AI model, the price is $100. If you're making an app for regular users, the price is $0.01."

It is insanely high, when their actual cost for 500 API calls should be $0.001 or less.

There are lots of mistakes Reddit made that shows they aren't trying.

• They could have given more advance notice for the API price increase. This would give apps more time to update their code to use fewer API calls. Many apps are subscription-based, so it would give them more time to update their subscription price.

• The price should have been based on Reddit's actual costs, actual revenue, and actual profits. I.e., if it costs Reddit $0.10 per user per year and their revenue per user is $0.15 per user per year from ads, then the API price should have been $0.15-$0.25 per user per year. The actual pricing shows they made it artificially high to kill the 3rd party apps. (I don't know what the actual numbers are.)

• Even if Reddit really did want to charge $5 per month for API users, the right way to do it is to start from a lower price and increase it 20%-50% per year until they get to their target price.

• If a user had Reddit premium, they should have been given extra API call tokens they can give to their 3rd party app.

Is there a way to find out a site's blocklist?

I solved this problem once. What you do is have a custom captcha that you code yourself. It can be as simple as "What is 2+3?" and have 10-20 questions that you rotate between. Most spammers will be too lazy to update their spambot.