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.

    • Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      58·
      9 months ago

      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…

      • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        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.

      • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
        82·
        9 months ago

        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 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          28·
          9 months ago

          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.

              • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
                31·
                9 months ago

                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.