# Handling trolls with multiple accounts over VPNs

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-trolls-with-multiple-accounts-over-vpns/49489
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 31, 2016, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-trolls-with-multiple-accounts-over-vpns/49489 "2016-08-31T12:41:51Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-trolls-with-multiple-accounts-over-vpns/49489/39 "2017-04-22T22:38:03Z")

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Yes that is basically this

> [@Civil Comments -- rate three other comments before posting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/civil-comments-rate-three-other-comments-before-posting/32401):
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> Our old pal @hanzo clued me in to [http://civilcomments.com/](http://civilcomments.com/) which I couldn’t make heads or tails of from the website alone. But watching their intro video tells the story. Here’s the special bit : before anyone can post a comment, they must first rate three random comments for quality and civility [image] and rate their own comment for quality and civility, too: [image] Then all that “human ranking” feeds into the other stuff like explicit likes, replies, etcetera to determine which ‘bes…

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