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
I am pinning this post because I think it is a global Lemmy problem, and debating this issue is necessary to find ways to decrease this type of spam.
Personally, I am reluctant to implement solutions like ‘account age verification’ or ‘maximum daily posts’ because this also affects legitimate users. However, we may need to do this if we do not find better solutions.
FWIW most of these “kamikaze” accounts seem to be on the lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works instances. I think lemmy.world might require an admin to manually approve new accounts – there’s a delay between application and account creation. And they explicitly state they don’t allow people to create accounts using temporary email addresses.
sh.itjust.works seems to allow anonymous account creation.
But why these two instances in particular, I wonder?
This seems to be rising to a problem that would require admin level tools.
Just a thought.
Daaamn I was also thinking about writing a post after yesterday “men bad” comics, I support doing something. Ban specific comic authors?
You could block the author if it’s a link to his website, but for posted images, how could lemmy detect the author without scanning (AI ?) the author’s name in the picture ?
