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Can we help against spammers? (kbin.social)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there any way we, as users, can help deal with the waves of spam-meds-bots? When I get the chance I downvote, but that's not possible for microblog. Do reporting them have any effect, or they go in the pile and are more a nuisance than a help?
If we blocked the culprit users, would it do anything other than us personally, even by just reducing their visibility?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Reporting them at the very least sends a message to the mods of the community the reported post/comment was on. Not sure about how/when it goes to instance admins, though. Which is where they really need to be reported to. Mods can block them from their community, but a spammer (human or bot) generally affects the entire server so it needs to go all the way to the top.

Blocking them also works to at least reduce the bots' effectiveness. If everyone blocks it, it isn't doing anything but wasting bandwidth, and if it's not having the desired effect whoever deployed it might give up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most of the communities with significant spam problems have no moderators other than ernest. It's up to him to recruit more people to help moderate those.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

In his most recent announcement, he said he's bringing 2 new instance mods. But I couldn't find the actual announcement post for the new team members. Unfortunately, these days Ernest often disappears for days or weeks at a time, so there's really no telling when we'll see the impacts of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Reports from lemmy apparently don't federate to kbin...