A quick note on the spam comments...

So for the folks seeing all the deleted comments and going “Wow, that’s uncharacteristic!”

Someone created a bot that posted over 7,000 40,000 garbage comments in multiple communities and now almost 10 bogus accounts.

They got banned and removed pretty quickly, but the nature of federation means some people are still seeing the comments.

So you can stop reporting the dude with the weird Simpsons/George Floyd mashup images. They’re already nuked, it just needs to finish cleaning it up.

The moderation channel right now is also being flooded with reports on the account that is already banned and removed, and that’s making it hard to get around to OTHER legitimate reports.

Tolookah,

It’s been a rough few days, thanks for the efforts.

On a mod related note: it looks like there’s still a sticky post about a new mod that’s months old, what’s the right way to get mod attention to unsticky it? (Unless it’s been done and my instance is not getting that update for reasons.)

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, it was unstickied AGES ago.

Tolookah,

I’m not doubting you, but this might be a Lemmy bug. (Screenshot taken minutes ago)

Boost thinks otherwise

View from my instance: Discuss.tchncs.de viewdiscuss.tchncs.de/c/politics@lemmy.world?dataType…

Last edit: it’s my instance. Unsure why, but other instances show it right

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, yeah, that was taken down months ago, so long ago in fact that mod was replaced and the replacement mod was removed as well.

Soooo many stickies ago.

I’m not sure how to fix that, unfortunately.

kinther,
@kinther@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for all your team does. Lemmy is a better place with you here!

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

We try!

aeharding,
@aeharding@lemmy.world avatar

Lemmy doesn’t have rate limiting for new comments? 🤔

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Based on what we’ve been seeing the past 2 days? I guess not…

Krudler,

Just a tip of the hat and thank you for your work.

Zuberi,
@Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Fix the bugs where banned users can still be reported?

Seems like the lack of foresight is causing you the most anguish here

rickyrigatoni,

Moderators usually aren’t developers so this comment is not constructive.

Zuberi,
@Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Moderators are perfectly capable of helping w/ simple edits here/there in the code base.

If LW is gunna have the largest bot population on earth, they best at least moderate the ones that they themselves aren’t making lmao…

rickyrigatoni,

do you think knowing anything about how to write code for a website is a prerequisite for being a moderator on one of its forums? goofy

Zuberi,
@Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Bro they at least need to spin up their own instance, go look at the code base. You can’t be a generic neanderthal and set this up correctly.

And you CERTAINLY can’t set up an entire army of bots like that without some semblance of a plan.

rickyrigatoni,

he’s not an admin…

i’m ending this conversation to save my own braincells.

Zuberi,
@Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Thank you mate, enjoy your day.

some_guy,

I remember when I worked a QA job on software and someone told me I could fix a problem myself if I wanted. I think he was surprised that I wasn’t a coder. I may be a super nerd who knows a lot about Unix and can do a lot of sysadmin stuff and can sling scripting solutions but not compilable code.

laverabe,

so are users, are you volunteering? Moderators don’t get paid, they’re literally just users who occasionally hit the delete button when some makes a post that in general summary looks something like “FCK U ASRHLE, U SCK BLLZ!”, stuff that doesn’t contribute to the public good.

How does a person who knows nothing about programming edit a code base? I wouldn’t know where to start. I could edit a text file, that’s about it.

Zuberi,
@Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Why would I monitor the bot-fest for them? Your admins obviously give 0 shits about it lol.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Speaking as a mod, I don’t have access to the codebase.

knightly,
@knightly@pawb.social avatar

🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

Badeendje,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for the effort to all the mods and admins.

Donjuanme,

Sorry about that, should’ve been clear to me it was more than the one thread they were in, but I only reported it once!

The fuck are some people’s problems…

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

At one point there were close to 100 reports that I saw and my queue is really only for 2 large communities and 3 tiny ones.

Brkdncr,

This sounds like a good feature request. Once an account and their comment/post/etc has been removed, federated reports should be automatically handled in some manner.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

I think they are, but in this case the sheer volume is the problem.

Brkdncr,

You’re probably right, and there’s probably a way to fix it. It’s not like this is going to be the last time it happens.

It’s also effectively a ddos. It denies mods the ability to do their job effectively and efficiently.

gravitas_deficiency,

Sounds like some client rate limiting needs to be added…

Pistcow,

Thank you for your service

FuglyDuck,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have laughed at this. (but I did anyhow.)

Thank you for your work.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

You want a serious giggle, check the modlog…

Lifecoach5000,

Good grief lol

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