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It was already used when dealing with voting rings (resulting in termination of accounts)

Very cool! Did they do a write-up? I haven't been following lobste.rs closely and some quick google searching returned a lot of unrelated content.

There's an example of the admin, pushcx, eliminating a voting ring in this part of the moderation log:

https://lobste.rs/moderations/page/4

He's really good at that. I can't recall if he disclosed his methods. Most don't to avoid giving the people doing it a chance to adapt. Let them stay at low-effort attempts. :)

Nobody's ever asked, but so far it's all the obvious stuff like the invite tree, IPs, user-agents, activity limited to their own stories, etc.

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