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[Non comic] Increase of bot accounts (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by tatann@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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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

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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. Still, it might not be bots/API abuse; the accounts might actually be created by hand by someone very motivated to post and delete for... some reason.

But why these two instances in particular, I wonder?