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

  • lawrence@lemmy.worldM
    1511·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world
      108·
      2 months ago

      Thank you. Sorry you’ve got to deal with this as I’m sure it’s no fun, but yeah it’s becoming a huge problem here.

    • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      57·
      2 months ago

      There needs to be something done!

      I’m getting these pathetic losers now going on downvoting sprees after I’ve been calling out their bullshit account spam.

      Regular users aren’t spamming more than 10+ posts a day unless they are one of the handful of accounts that post a billion links and have some bot set up for posting. (Some bots are absolutely borderline spam but at least those accounts don’t get deleted)

    • tatann@lemmy.worldOP
      1113·
      2 months ago

      I agree, when I joined lemmy I was annoyed I couldn’t post in some communities because my account wasn’t at least 30 days old. This would be a temporary fix.

      And thanks for acknowledging the issue

  • freamon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    223·
    2 months ago

    It’s mostly annoying me because it’s affecting federation - not just the ability for new instances to backfill content, but for established instances to even be able to fully resolve a new post’s details before the author nukes themselves. For example, the previous post (titled “Paranoia”) isn’t available on lemmy.ml or lemmy.dbzer0 because they would have been a few seconds “too late” to fetch the details for the author.

    @lawrence@lemmy.world - if you’d like another mod to help out in the short term, I’m happy to volunteer. I realise people in the comments are being a bit defeatist about the ability to reckon with this problem, but whoever this person is should at least have to do a bit more work than they’re currently doing.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    102·
    2 months ago

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

  • Serinus@lemmy.world
    103·
    2 months ago

    I’m not sure a simple rule to prevent new account (less than X days)

    This would work reasonably for about X days. Maybe.

    • tatann@lemmy.worldOP
      818·
      2 months ago

      Well I guess “they” could program bots to start posting only after X days, but still better than nothing for now

  • paultimate14@lemmy.world
    92·
    2 months ago

    I’ve noticed a ton of these too: it seemed to have started right around New Year’s.

    As someone who typically scrolls All, I’m not even sure if it’s specific to this community. There are a lot of Comic and Meme communities where these things are getting posted across various instances. I’m still not sure whether this is nefarious or someone trying to grow Lemmy. Could just be some college student trying to test out making bots, posting things they genuinely like. Though I have noticed most of the comics tend to em have divisive elements or say things that are obviously wrong. It seems like their goal might be to drive comment engagement.

    So I’ve been marking them with UserNotes as “Comic Bot” and usually just do voting and moving on. Occasionally commenting to draw attention to the user history for others.

  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world
    119·
    2 months ago

    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

    You too huh? I made a similar comment and got the same downvote brigading and copycat account shit.

    Cockroaches really don’t like it when you shine a light on them.

    Mods really need to do something about this shit.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    If lemmy had a shared tag system, and easier way would be for automod to tag new users and auto delete posts from users that delete themselves.

    That way everyone would know its a new user posting and could just choose to take the post with skepticism.