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.)

    • Grimy@lemmy.world
      118·
      3 days ago

      Just keep an account, it’s that easy. Your behavior comes off as manipulative and having an agenda.

      • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        147·
        3 days ago

        at this point they’re long past the point where they’d be tolerated here to keep a single account. they’re constantly impersonating and harassing other people, they need the new accounts to be able to evade bans.