There’s an increase of bot (I suppose) accounts who post a single or a few comics and delete their account.

One of the issue is that they’re often divisive posts (“men bad”, “women bad”, “old bad”, “young bad”, …) like they’re trying to stir up some shit (is “9gag-isation” a word ?)

I’m not sure a simple rule to prevent new account (less than X days) from posting would suffice but I have no other idea.

How could this community deal with this phenomenon ?

PS : I’m not a mod btw, but I didn’t see any rule about discussing the moderation, and I’ve seen other comments about this

Edit: they made a “tatann_2” account to post a few comics so it’s obviously a troll

Edit 2: and now I’m getting downvotes on my posts/comments, even old ones, at least I’ve pissed off the troll

  • adhd_traco@piefed.socialEnglish
    112·
    3 days ago

    I think the way forward as the next line of defense is to vet accounts. This has been suggested before and I believe quite a few instances do it already. Similar thing on Mastodon.

    It doesn’t have to be a strict process, to start with anyway, but at least require people to write a quick paragraph of why they want to join.

    It does mean more work, though. But I think if it became the norm, instances can be straight-up blocked who don’t do have this process, even if many people use it. As people will see the good stuff is elsewhere and anyone who cares enough will do this little extra step. (the philosophy of being active in good places to grow them)

    Other people have written about this more eloquently and with stronger arguments. :)

    • zout@fedia.io
      111·
      2 days ago

      I don’t think that’s a very good idea to be honest. “Why do you want to join Lemmy?” “Because I want to shitpost”. I probably wouldn’t write it because I can’t be bothered.

    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      122·
      3 days ago

      Bots can just be created on other instances with no verification and post here, so that would makes no difference.

      • adhd_traco@piefed.socialEnglish
        61·
        3 days ago

        But I think if it became the norm, instances can be straight-up blocked who don’t do have this process, even if many people use it. As people will see the good stuff is elsewhere and anyone who cares enough will do this little extra step. (the philosophy of being active in good places to grow them)

        In other words. If this became a real thing, any respectable instance could just not federate with instances that don’t have this process.

        • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          62·
          3 days ago

          Aren’t new instances federated by default? Then botfarms can spin up instances at will and spam before being defederated.

          • adhd_traco@piefed.socialEnglish
            41·
            3 days ago

            I’m out of my depths here. Automatic federation seems like something that shouldn’t be a technical necessity though.

            I hope others will chime in on this thread :)

            • zout@fedia.io
              81·
              2 days ago

              Automatic federation is one of the strengths of Lemmy, without it it wouldn’t be really decentralized in my opinion. But I’ve already responded twice to you without saying what would work, so what do I know.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      51·
      3 days ago

      at least require people to write a quick paragraph of why they want to join.

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