Do you mean it happens on several posts other than their own? Yeah it's not isolated behavior for sure. With the change I deployed, they'd have to reply to themselves, making these comments "one unit" at least isolating the noise of it. We'll probably need other layers to manage this kind of stuff:

1. downvotes
2. muting/blocking

In either case, it'd also reduce the user's trust losing them sats/ranking.

It just dawned on me that this might also be an issue where other users do the same thing on others posts: https://stacker.news/items/11016 - I count 4 comments from one user

Another solution to this might be the ability for a user to hide other users in their feeds

kevin

Okay, I prevent the same user from submitting more than one reply directly to the same parent. This should prevent the most egregious cases of this.

k00b

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saloon

There's been discussion of staking-like systems but the UX around that kind of stuff is complicated. I layout in the gh issue how I think it's best to handle it.