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So what can we do to combat this Spam posting as a community? Anyone have any ideas?

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago (22 children)

Downvote, Report it, and move on. Not much can be done from the user side.

[–] 8565@lemmy.techtriage.guru 6 points 9 months ago (16 children)

It's just too bad. They are spamming from so many different instances. I'm assuming ones with open registration turned on. So they can't ban in bulk. Also why is it just this community getting hit like this?

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Admin of lemmy.dbzer0.com here and yeah i can confirm it's from instances with open registration. Also most of them are smaller instances that aren't that well maintained and will probably feel the consequence by being blocked by other instances....

And kbin.social 🤦

[–] 8565@lemmy.techtriage.guru 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad I only have the 4 users lol easy to admin. Easy to maintain lol

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 months ago

12,363 and counting for us lol... it's stressful sometimes but i am super happy with our community. Most reports actually are about others content interestingly enough

[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I might just be really tired and feeling dense this morning, but what do you mean about kbin.social?

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No offense to our brothers and sisters in the fediverse, but kbin.social surely has a lot of spam coming out... it's a very popular instance and that attracts a lot of dickheads.

[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That sucks to hear. Back when I migrated to the Fediverse, I chose Kbin just simply because the interface suited me better. Frustrating when aholes ruin a good thing.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

(edit: might not be sole) Dev/moderator doesnt want a team but has some health issues presumably, so definitely can't manage it themselves. This is just the aftermath of a couple months of that

[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is a team, not a sole dev.

I'm not saying everything is roses and rainbows, but this is FUD messaging being spread openly by the mbin dev team.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I'm just repeating what ive heard but its weird the whole team isn't doing as much moderating as one'd expect

[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah honestly no idea regarding moderation. But the codebase is maintained by a team.

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