[tbran]

I like the idea of trying to solve this problem!

Here's an idea:

- Require a photo of the author with a photo of gov-issued id.

- Maybe require a dated piece of paper or a Clarkesworld word-of-the-day in the photo.

- If submitter is from a country with hard-to-get gov-id, or just doesn't have/want it, their submission goes in the extra scrutiny pile.

I'm not too keen on requiring gov id, so maybe someone has a better idea?

I'm pretty sure you just need to increase friction for spammers in meatspace to solve this. I'm not saying this is scalable, but we're just trying to fix it for Clarksworld.