[Eug894]

Hi, man! I saw your forum had experienced spam-bots attack. I have a suggestion...

Do you know any messenger app based on replicating database in which users' messages are acknowledged by their transfer history through a social graph? So, a new user must ask several registered ones to broadcast the creation of a new node in that social graph, and then he will be able to post his messages by relaying them to the rest of the system through those users who registered him. Spam-bots could be then filtered out by black-lists...

Simple idea, I'm sure someone had to make it already. Do you know any? Thanks for the effort!

[Eug894]

I implied just sharded database of messages, no need to replicate it. With customizable filters along data transfer path, of course.