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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.)

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[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Someone made 20 new accounts yesterday to downvote in the thread. You technically received 1 downvote.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

What, actually? To what end? It’s lemmy, literally nobody gives a shit about downvotes. What an insanely stupid waste of time hahaha

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

What, actually? To what end? It’s lemmy, literally nobody gives a shit about downvotes. What an insanely stupid waste of time hahaha

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

On Piefed, you can schedule posts, fwiw.