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[Non comic] Increase of bot accounts (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by tatann@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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There's an increase of bot (I suppose) accounts who post a single or a few comics and delete their account.

One of the issue is that they're often divisive posts ("men bad", "women bad", "old bad", "young bad", ...) like they're trying to stir up some shit (is "9gag-isation" a word ?)

I'm not sure a simple rule to prevent new account (less than X days) from posting would suffice but I have no other idea.

How could this community deal with this phenomenon ?

PS : I'm not a mod btw, but I didn't see any rule about discussing the moderation, and I've seen other comments about this

Edit: they made a "tatann_2" account to post a few comics so it's obviously a troll

Edit 2: and now I'm getting downvotes on my posts/comments, even old ones, at least I've pissed off the troll

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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I've noticed a ton of these too: it seemed to have started right around New Year's.

As someone who typically scrolls All, I'm not even sure if it's specific to this community. There are a lot of Comic and Meme communities where these things are getting posted across various instances. I'm still not sure whether this is nefarious or someone trying to grow Lemmy. Could just be some college student trying to test out making bots, posting things they genuinely like. Though I have noticed most of the comics tend to em have divisive elements or say things that are obviously wrong. It seems like their goal might be to drive comment engagement.

So I've been marking them with UserNotes as "Comic Bot" and usually just do voting and moving on. Occasionally commenting to draw attention to the user history for others.