Interesting concept, might be a good mod tool too to be able to limit instance interaction on a community level

Not really a new thing for them, they’ve been trying to milk r/place since the first one. The last time they let it run too long as well, it needed to be like a 1 or 2 day max thing not a week

CAPTCHA is re-enabled so email verification is optional

It’s not like you could have polled users that hadn’t joined yet anyways. Maybe the blocked list could be made more visible so people could be informed early on before they get too invested in their account?

What about filtering on the frontend like in Boost?