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County flag based on post location to assist self-policing

submitted by aleleopathic to TalkDev 3.0 yearsMay 6, 2021 12:20:17 ago (+2/-1)     (TalkDev)

Short version: put a small flag based on the location a post originated from (not the user's account) in the header bar of a post. The idea is that shills/shitposters/etc slip up with VPNs from time to time, and it gives a way that someone can ruin an aged account by accidentally posting from e.g. Israel.

I looked into how 4chan did it to see if I could help it along over here; it seems they use one image with every country flag in it, and serve just a small portion of the image based on a country code. Here's their image: https://files.catbox.moe/mots3b.png

I mentioned this to Cynabuns who suggested posting it here: https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost.php?postid=609273351f6b7&commentid=6092d2da6189c

What do you think?


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[ - ] aleleopathic [op] 0 points 3.0 yearsMay 6, 2021 13:45:24 ago (+0/-0)

However, all someone has to do is post with a VPN and then its worthless.

They go down, and usually when they do, the end user doesn't notice. Most of the chan shills used VPNs, but occasionally the VPNs went down, and they outed themselves.

It's just adding another avenue for shills to slip up.

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[ - ] AndrewBlazeIt 1 point 3.0 yearsMay 6, 2021 12:22:00 ago (+1/-0)

Mm, nah

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[ - ] aleleopathic [op] 0 points 3.0 yearsMay 6, 2021 13:47:43 ago (+0/-0)

Being able to just pick a flag defeats the whole purpose, which is to require (((false agents))) to play a tighter game. One post from Israel should be all it takes to ruin an account.

What reason would you have against it?