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what's the asshole mitigation plan? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by bobaduk@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something.

When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

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[-] MyMulligan@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but the whole 'good bot' thing was to help the bot to improve and moderators to remove bad bots? I'm easily wrong on this but that was my understanding. It helped with the pruning of bad bots and the growth of good ones.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Something I enjoyed is how, during the rise of /r/transcribersofreddit transcribing image content into a comment, because of their standardised formatting, people often assumed they were a bot, so would comment "Good bot".

However, they were human posters, and this was often revealed by another bot that would look out for "good bot"/"bad bot" votes on (seemingly) human posts and say "are you sure [user] is a bot? Because I'm 97.84% sure they're not".

Eventually, it was common to see people replying to the image transcribers' comments with "Good human." and that always made me smile.