staff
@staff

hey! this morning we were finally able to use one of our many secret staff-only buttons for the first time: the "activate all users" button. everyone on here who has an account is now able to post!

one thing which has been nice about the past few months is that we've had to deal with approximately zero spam, and we think the activation delay has been helping with that -- so for the time being, we're going to continue to hit that button once every weekday instead of removing the delay entirely.

thanks for using cohost :eggbug:



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the extremely high signal to noise ratio is very much enjoyed, so rock on with that!! :D Grats on finding the end of the queue, though, and hello new friends-to-be!!

Another thing that I think could be a genuinely good idea to avoiding spam is charging a small fee to set up accounts. Like, a dollar. I'd happily have paid a dollar to make an account here. Just a one-time fee, like what government agencies charge to process your paperwork lol.

I don't know if that would be a good idea overall, but I would def have paid one to five bucks to skip the queue back when I was 7 thousandth in line. Now that the queue is shorter this might not be as necessary