Besides trying to find better ways at recognizing bots, we also need to invent ways that make it quicker to recognize “false alarm, this user is in all likelihood legit”.

For example, users should have the possibilities to pin posts and comments to their profile, and I suggest that users have at least two different ‘tabs’ in their profile for this: One tab just for the usual “posts / comments you would like other people to see”, but another tab for “some recent, complex interactions between you and other (established) users that in your eyes make it quite clear you’re not a bot”. The purpose is simply to save others, worried about you being a bot, some time of going through your posts in search of signs of humanity. Yes, this can be gamed to some degree (what can’t?). However, at a technical level, the feature is just a copy of the “pin” feature would be very nice to have anyways, so we can get an appreciable improvement in our ability to tell users from bots for very little programming effort.