Abandoned large magazines are being bombarded with spam and admins are nowhere to be seen it seems. Hundreds of spam bot posts have not been deleted for months, see /infosec /internet /opensource /science, etc. and there are some posts about admins not responding to reports. So whats happening here?
I see that non-admins are banning spammers from their communities in mod log but thats not an instance wide ban
are any other instances even federating with kbin after this barrage of unmoderated spam?
Ernest has not been seen in a while. So no, there’s basically no admin currently available.
It’s really frustrating because kbin has gotten too big to still basically be a one-man operation. Unless he lets other people take over some things, the wheels are gonna fall off sooner rather than later.
surely there is more than one admin who can moderate the instance?
I have to admit I have been moving over to mbin. It’s the same layout and hot algo but with bug fixes. I submitted an issue and they had it fixed within a few days.
kbin.social in particular only has the one admin. I keep an eye on the two ghost-town mags that I mod so they don’t become spam vectors, but there’s only so much we can do without an admin/dev.
From what I understand Ernest is slow to trust and doesn’t like sharing responsibility.