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Should bots get reported? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Acamon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I've had a pretty depressing morning, scrolling through my Subscribed feed and realising that 90% of new posts were from the same two bot accounts (bagel and somethingmelon, can't be remeber exactly and I've blocked them.)

Thankfully, a few people had made "ai slop" comments under one, so I checked the post history and, sure, a new account posting at a implausible rate. And once you started looking at the posts they were kinda samey, generic or a bit off. But I think that if the bot had been programmed to post at a slower rate, I don't think I'd have really noticed.

So my question is, should people be allowed to report bot accounts? And can/should mods be expected at assess someone's humanity? The very idea is gross, but so is the thought that lemmy would be very easily swamped by a small number of more careful written bots.

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[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How does it work on lemmy? When I report a post or comment as spam, that goes to the community mod? And they can ban an account from their community. But how does stuff get to the instance level (who I assume are the people with the power to ban an account completely). Do community mods report problem users? Or do instance admins just see patterns of behaviour on the mod logs?

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

Reports go to both instance and comm mods, and it's a coin toss who responds first.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

For sh.itjust.works, the admin mods are always watching. The automod bot catches a lot too. I'm not sure about the other instances though. I would guess that enough reports for spam on an account would trigger the admins to see it on all the instances? Just a guess though.