So I’ve seen spam posts make it close to the top of the federated TL recently. It got me to look into the modlog and it seems that the vast majority of removed posts are straight up advertising spam, usually multiple per day.

I’ve seen this sort of thing go unchecked and take over Plume and Write.as servers. Does Lemmy have any mechanisms to keep this contained? I know a traditional method is to only allow users to post after they’ve made a few comments first. I could also be overreacting?

  • TheConquestOfBed@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 years ago

    Ah, I think the method you proposed is a little more intense than what I’ve seen recently. I think hexbear currently uses a comment or karma threshold to allow comm posts.

    New users intending to stir up trouble flounder about in self-contained little threads under a post until mods show up. And only people who’ve been immersed in the community for more than 5min can post to the timeline. It seems like a good balance of new-user participation and making things a little easier to contain.

    Thanks for the link!