I've created a petition and solution for SpaceHey to eliminate spam accounts - and I need your signatures!

Signed o/

I signed the petition. We’re at war and we’re not playing around. Our vigilance will prevail in the end. Shout the battle cry and the praise of glory to the heroes of Spacehey!

(OP deleted their comment, but I'm leaving this up anyway as a little note about why this petition matters)

I think the big issue with what you've said is it relies on a lot of reactive ideas as opposed to proactive ideas. IP banning people is reactive and easily circumvented with VPNs and proxies. They've also stated that the reason they don't do IP bans is because this site does not currently store your IP address as a part of user privacy. Mod Hooterbby has an entire blog about this subject: https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=879869.

I may have said this in another place, but the big issue is no one has provided solid proactive solutions that stick, and if they have they haven't tried to organize people around the idea. My thinking is that instead of trying to keep them off the site (an impossible approach, constantly reacting to the new ways they find to get on the site), just keep the users from seeing the accounts and let the mods do what they signed up for - but also make it easier on them so they don't have to constantly be on top of the new user accounts. Adding a 3-day wait to new users showing up in feeds would be the best possible solution. 

Being proactive is magnitudes more beneficial than being reactive. I don't see the point in chasing IP addresses or whatever. You'll always be chasing new ones down and banning VPNs in the process. Remove the incentive and you make their efforts irrelevant.

signed 

I signed. I think the thing that also annoys me is the counterspam accounts. I understand they are just trying to help and are trying to keep graphic photos off the homepage but I wish that energy was just invested towards reporting the accounts that are causing a problem instead. The more spam accounts there are, the less actual active accounts I see in the new people section so I wish it would all just stop.