So, uhm, what the hell is going on with all these ad posts I’m seeing in this community?

  • @SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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    7 months ago

    Whenever you see something like this, please just report the post as spam, block the user and petition your community moderators to recruit more mods, especially in other time zones.

    Even better, volunteer as mod yourself.

    Also please tell your admins to use an application rather than just the captcha - the captchas are easily broken.

      • @CrayonMaster@midwest.social
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        137 months ago

        Not necessarily a bad idea, but most the spam I’ve seen is from new accounts on larger instances, so I’m not sure it’ll help with this.

        • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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          97 months ago

          Seems like a user pattern that should be fairly detectable. Might not be a bad idea to scrape logs to look for spammy/copypaste comments, particularly on very new accounts, and either flag them for manual review or just ban them outright.

        • HubertManne
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          47 months ago

          yeah usually less than an hour to a few hours old. occasionally they make it to days.

      • HubertManne
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        97 months ago

        I wish there was a seperate block as spam that would auto report. Some things I block due to lack of interest but others spam and our current report takes more clicks than I like. Then I would also like to be able to subscribe to peoples spam block list. If I like the cut of someones hib I might just subscribe to block any spam they block.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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        67 months ago

        Somewhat already exists, called Fediseer

        There are a few other instances that subscribe to lemmy.world’s censures list on there

      • @SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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        67 months ago

        Some instances may not want to use democracy to decide on what to block. But some web of trust would be nice perhaps. Like I trust an instance and if that instance blocks another instance, maybe I’d block it too.