Hi everyone,
I think it has become clear that many bot accounts are swarming the communities. Sometimes we can’t be sure whether a specific account is a bot, but there are some clues. I will not post the clues here since they could be used by bot creators to bypass the rules.
Lemmy (the software) currently doesn’t have tools to automate moderation, so everything has to be moderated manually.
That said, I will be adding a few anti-bot rules to the /c/comicstrips community:
- A limit of two posts per person per day.
- Bots are not allowed. There will be heavy moderation of suspected bot accounts. If an account is identified as a bot, its posts will be deleted and it will receive a permanent ban.
- Banned users will have their posts removed.
And thank you to everyone in the community who reports possible spammers and bots. It helps a lot.
Here is the previous post that I fixed before, which contains a few discussions about this subject: https://lemmy.world/post/42127013
Do you have any comments or suggestions? I’m listening.
(This is not the future that Asimov expected.)
Lemmy is popular enough to have bots now? Crazy.
I don’t get the appeal. Preparing to redirect to paid content? Just to feel cool?
it just takes one mentally ill person to make it their hobby to harass people on the internet
Antiyanks comes to mind.
He is always posting divisive content. He probably downvotes certain comments and tries to instigate arguments to make Lemmy feel hostile. It’s to turn people off and get them to leave imo.
Yeah I don’t get the appeal of bots at all. I also like that Lemmy isn’t that busy or popular personally.
Bots are for script kiddies what loud af exhaust systems are for incels: a megaphone for their inadequacies. If you gotta try to be the loudest thing around, artificially, you probably don’t have a lot going right in your life. Unfortunately, self-reflection requires maturity and many of those people seem to have peaked in elementary school, so it’ll never change.
The fact they try this hard on a platform like lemmy is even more pathetic. I’d feel sorry for them if it made a difference. Just best to ignore them and block them than waste energy on them. If they gotta artificially win internet points to feel good about themselves, then pat their little head, give them a good job, buddy, and move on.
I’ve considered using a script to post more often, so that the quieter communities don’t seem like a wasteland. More posts= more engagement = more human posts
I do love that I’m getting voted down for trying to make it busier to try and get more real people, because network effect is a thing. I get it, we want more actual human engagement, but some of these communities, 2 years in, have single-digit active members, on subs with 70k on That R Site.
Someone made 20 new accounts yesterday to downvote in the thread. You technically received 1 downvote.
What, actually? To what end? It’s lemmy, literally nobody gives a shit about downvotes. What an insanely stupid waste of time hahaha
What, actually? To what end? It’s lemmy, literally nobody gives a shit about downvotes. What an insanely stupid waste of time hahaha
On Piefed, you can schedule posts, fwiw.