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 only one mod? If needed, I can help! Especially if we create a “credit the artist” rule. :3
I have been identified as a bot account because of my use of a VPN. I am not a bot so the system is not working perfectly. Thanks
- A limit of two posts per person per day.
This should probably be linked to the account age and combined with a time limit between posts of 30 minutes or an hour, as the bots I have seen usually post in quick succession.
This. If someone’s been here tor years and been a contributer I don’t think the 2-post limit should apply.
Yeah, ickplant and lady_butterfly or something like that are a couple of my favorites who post quite a bit and I’m pretty sure they’re not bots (?)
