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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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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 30 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Lol the bots down voting all the comments is hilarious

Suck it bot-authors

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

It's all me 😭. The newest one got a belly laugh out of me though, not gonna lie. I crossed out the only one that isn't a day old account.

Here's what I think is going on, since calling him out is probably the best (copy pasted from an other comment):

He is always posting divisive content. He probably downvotes certain comments and tries to instigate arguments to make Lemmy feel hostile. It's to turn people off and get them to leave imo.

[–] new_otters_raft@piefed.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Can you reach out to admins on any instance that the accounts are made on? Vote manipulation should be an easy instant ban. Putting together a list of accounts would help the instance admins figure out a pattern.

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