Perhaps this isn’t new, as I’ve only been on Lemmy for around 3 months, but up until this point I hadn’t noticed spam, advertising, scams, etc at all on Lemmy. However, within the last 2 days I’ve seen at least 3 examples of obvious spam posts, made by accounts clearly dedicated to that purpose. Has anyone else noticed this? And are there steps we could take to counter it (perhaps a report button)?
Outside of other solutions ppl proposed below, we do just need more active admins, across different timezones. The report queue has really helped, but there’s not enough of us looking at them.
Cleaning things up only takes a few seconds with the ban + remove content action.
Also a lot of these spam posts do seem automated, which means our captcha here isn’t doing as good a job as it should be 😞
I think its just that captcha is so cheap and easy to bypass. I’m sure you know about the farms of people solving captcha for bots and other spam services.
Captcha is more of a user annoyance at this point.
Would some sort of Bayesian filter help? At least from what I’ve seen on PeerTube, WriteFreely, and the history of email is that certain patterns crop up in the posts.
It might, but either signup applications like we’re getting ready for the next release, or some kind of minimal activity restrictions would probably work best.
Maybe, in addition to admins, there could be demi-mods where when they report something, it becomes hidden? Or some other democratic approach; I remember League of Legends did a “tribunal” thing where users could vote on whether something was appropriate. Maybe something like that could distribute the admin-load without giving people unilateral-ban-power.
Spam moves faster than democracy.
It moves faster than fascism too =P
Nah fascism is just better at disguising their spam as an attack on your personal liberties by the communists.
I’m saying the current moderation strategy is pure fascism