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.)
Is there a way to change the title or pin an automated comment to flag the post as a bot instead of deleting it? I think it’s better to sensetize the community on the subjects the bot accounts target so it’s easier to spot it elsewhere. I also think deleting posts also deletes interesting comment chains midway at times. I’ve had it happen and it’s a bit frustrating.
I guess it wouldn’t stop it from getting on the all feed though. I wish there was a way to lock votes or reset them.
Edit: one of the bots down voted me lol, he actually created extra accounts with my name to downvote. I guess it’s his idea of taunting.
Edit: The guy is actually losing it lol. Everyone in this thread, including recent comment history for me and cannedtuna, is being downvoted by bots with my name.
only the person creating a post can mark their own account as bot or change the title