Will LW *PLEASE* do something about that hit-and-run account?

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• Jerry@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One option is to switch to a PieFed instance running V 1.3.6. The devs did something about this for PieFed users that should help.

  v1.3.6
  Stop floods of spammy posts from very new accounts on lemmy.world.
  New accounts (< 24h old) from lemmy.world are now limited to 3 posts in their first day.

  V1.3.3
  Automatically delete posts by very young accounts that self-delete.

  piefed.social and feddit.online are two that are running the latest code. I’m sure there are others.

  Yeah, that person is quite annoying.

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  • MrKaplan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This doesn’t really solve the problem. This person used to scramble/delete their own content in the past before they went to delete the entire accounts.

    They’re a rather persistent ban evader who can’t accept not being welcome in some spaces on the internet. Even before they started deleting accounts they already used multiple accounts to evade bans.

    I’d be happy to hear suggestions for addressing this without essentially banning all new accounts. Preventing new accounts from participating will only result in them aging accounts for a bit before usage and discouraging legitimate new users from participating.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When I modded reddit subs I always had a karma minimum to post, it seemed to drastically reduce bullshit posts. It wasn’t even very high, like 100.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Preventing new accounts from participating will only result in them aging accounts for a bit before usage and discouraging legitimate new users from participating.

      Exactly.

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• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So I’ve noticed this too a lot lately.

  There’s still a lot of hit and run accounts and it’s wild that an account can be created, dump articles, delete itself, and the posts remain up.

  Examples:

  u/Valorian

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  u/Vadian

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  Then there’s accounts that are still up, but are posting at an insane rate

  u/Krewl 21 posts on a 3 hour old account

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  u/nuemenon with 831 posts in 11 days, that’s 20 posts per minute!

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  Why are accounts like these that are clearly bot accounts, with some bit of human interaction possibly, allowed to remain up? Just for the sake of content and interaction? Seems like a good way to allow propaganda bots to run free.

  Most of these accounts seem to be targeted at !worldnews@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world and primarily on the lemmyworld instance, at least in the very little time I’ve looked at this. Might just be that lemmyworld is one of the largest instances, but still.

  I know it’s probably hard to tackle on the mod side, but it does feel like there should be limits on how much an account can flood an instance with content or if an account is deleted, or banned, shortly after posting their content should come down as well. I thought bot tags were a thing, and maybe they are, which might help some, but doesn’t stop the issue.

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most fixes I can think of would effectively be a one move blunder, where the opponent’s move is extremely obvious and only leaves us in a worse position.

    The only real fix I can think of is to require everyone to sign in with a Steam account that has spent > $200 or similar.

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    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Absolute genius! Finally all those summer/winter sales are paying off

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    • Emopunker@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Since the problem is ongoing, why not do some temporary manual vetting of accounts? Or is there a function to just prevent account from posting for a few days and they can only comment?

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• Emopunker@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Issue is still ongoing. I have banned a few accounts that would spam 20 to 30 posts a day to abandon the account after one to three days, just to make another. Got really bad since Valeshio.

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• asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The admins are aware of it, judging by this github issue: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6013

  There is already a PR to make it easier to deal with their leftovers.

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• lawrence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  /c/comicstrips is experiencing this issue as well. It’s terrible.

  Good to know that the devs are doing something about it.

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• SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What even would be the point of this?

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Astroturfing, propaganda

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    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But if they then delete, what’s that accomplish?

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