Just throwing ideas out, mostly to address offsite brigaders:
Waiting periods of at least 1 hour, but maybe up to a whole 24 hours before a person can post, comment, message, etc.
A universal cooldown period for comments, posts, and messages (as in, shared between all of them, so if I comment, I also can't post or message for a few minutes). I'm thinking 3 minutes might be a nice number to start with.
Potentially limit posting in certain communities to users with certain account age, vote totals, some more direct vetting method maybe? Somebody posting shit in c/gaming or whatever is probably less harmful than people being able to post shitty things in communities specifically geared for more sensitive or serious subjects.
On invites and IP bans: invites would definitely curb offsite trolling but it would obviously, as others have said, affect pipelining. I'm either-or on whether or not that's a worthwhile trade-off when the other measures (such as the above) may be enough, but I'm more strongly against IP bans simply because it would require logging IPs to begin with, and I worry about opsec, privacy, etc.
Addressing on-site transphobia, I don't know. If I see shitty comments or posts, I report them, regardless of if they're a long-timer, or themselves trans (regardless of if it's true or just a cover for a troll).
I'm just gonna echo this - making posting a time-taking endeavor would be a really good move. If someone wants to be a dick enough that they wait patiently to be able to be a dick, well, you can just ban them. But I doubt most dicks will wait that long before getting bored and fucking off
Just throwing ideas out, mostly to address offsite brigaders:
Waiting periods of at least 1 hour, but maybe up to a whole 24 hours before a person can post, comment, message, etc.
A universal cooldown period for comments, posts, and messages (as in, shared between all of them, so if I comment, I also can't post or message for a few minutes). I'm thinking 3 minutes might be a nice number to start with.
Potentially limit posting in certain communities to users with certain account age, vote totals, some more direct vetting method maybe? Somebody posting shit in c/gaming or whatever is probably less harmful than people being able to post shitty things in communities specifically geared for more sensitive or serious subjects.
On invites and IP bans: invites would definitely curb offsite trolling but it would obviously, as others have said, affect pipelining. I'm either-or on whether or not that's a worthwhile trade-off when the other measures (such as the above) may be enough, but I'm more strongly against IP bans simply because it would require logging IPs to begin with, and I worry about opsec, privacy, etc.
Addressing on-site transphobia, I don't know. If I see shitty comments or posts, I report them, regardless of if they're a long-timer, or themselves trans (regardless of if it's true or just a cover for a troll).
I'm just gonna echo this - making posting a time-taking endeavor would be a really good move. If someone wants to be a dick enough that they wait patiently to be able to be a dick, well, you can just ban them. But I doubt most dicks will wait that long before getting bored and fucking off
Cooldowns would be good. There is no good reason for anyone to comment more than once per 5 minutes or so.