There’s an increase of bot (I suppose) accounts who post a single or a few comics and delete their account.
One of the issue is that they’re often divisive posts (“men bad”, “women bad”, “old bad”, “young bad”, …) like they’re trying to stir up some shit (is “9gag-isation” a word ?)
I’m not sure a simple rule to prevent new account (less than X days) from posting would suffice but I have no other idea.
How could this community deal with this phenomenon ?
PS : I’m not a mod btw, but I didn’t see any rule about discussing the moderation, and I’ve seen other comments about this
Edit: they made a “tatann_2” account to post a few comics so it’s obviously a troll
Edit 2: and now I’m getting downvotes on my posts/comments, even old ones, at least I’ve pissed off the troll
in general, bot or not, I really don’t like when someone dumps several posts to a community within a few minutes. The lemmy algorithm is fairly simple so they all stay grouped together on my main feed. And I don’t really want to see 5 similar posts all next to each other.
So, I’d be in favour of rate-limiting posts, which would help both the bot problem and the content dump problem. I don’t see why, for example, a limit of 2 posts per hour and 4 per day would ever affect good-faith users.
I have a tendency to post quite a bit back to back because I like to post comics from people I follow on mastodon and I only go on mastodon every once in awhile. So during the times I do actually end up there I tend to have a backlog that havent been posted and I want to share.
Sorry if this is an issue :/ I know im definitely one of the people that do it.
I think this is the best middle ground solution at the moment. Limiting the amount of posts that can be spammed would act as a deterrent for whoever keeps creating accounts and deleting them within a few hours.
As a bonus, if possible; limit only accounts less than X days old to that timeframe (this would allow people who actually want to post and keep their accounts the freedom to do so without restrictions).