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.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    3 months ago

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

    Thank you for your work.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    21·
    3 months ago

    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.

      • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
        20·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 months ago

    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@lemmy.worldOPM
      16·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    3 months ago

    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.)

  • Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    84·
    3 months ago

    Fix the bugs where banned users can still be reported?

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

    • rickyrigatoni
      153·
      3 months ago

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

      • Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        58·
        3 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·
          3 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.

        • rickyrigatoni
          82·
          3 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·
            3 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.

            • rickyrigatoni
              72·
              3 months ago

              he’s not an admin…

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

                • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
                  31·
                  3 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.