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

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    111·
    2 days ago

    …and obviously I can’t see any of it because their posts are gone, too?
    Can you put some numbers on this?
    Can anybody confirm?

    It could be some sort of Streisand effect brought on by people complaining about “bot accounts” for days/weeks now.
    People thinking something like “You scared of trolls? Lol, let’s troll you some more!”

    Also, some of those accused seem like very normal people to me who also comment in other communities and do not, in fact, delete their account.

    edit: somebody created an account 1h ago, only to downvote every single comment in this thread. No content.

    • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      I can confirm.

      On piefed, you can usually see if new accounts are posting given a little wheel icon on their account. It helps making visible the account(s) are flooding the community.

      Plus if you have a single user instance you can easily look at the logs and find the accounts again.

    • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      151·
      2 days ago

      I’m just a random, but I’ve seen it as well over there last few weeks. Much more obvious when browsing by hot or new, and then the author isn’t findable from dbzero anymore. Or if they are, it’s the only post, it’s bait, and then they disappear. Hard to track.

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      81·
      2 days ago

      I’ve seen discussion of this occurring in other communities too (can’t remember which tho, sorry), and stumbled upon a few of those posts too where post and user were gone (i’ve always got a tab with piefed open, and don’t always refresh the page when it’s been not too long, so i still see the post as active when in reality it’s been deleted already), so i can attest to this happening.

      eta: the content seems to be divisive, and it’s definitely every day, but i can’t make a good estimate of the amount of this type of post happening