Get this person banned, please.
Obviously it’s not acceptable behaviour, but you’ve got to understand that all the admins and mods here are volunteers, and the platform is still young. That, combined with no automatic spam detection, you unfortunately can’t expect an instant reaction to every single troll. They did get banned, roughly 1 hour after your post.
Even the largest communities I’ve found so far are terribly moderated. It will kill this platform if not addressed.
It will take time for tools to be built on top of lemmy to allow for more robust moderation
AutoMod is currently missing from both Lemmy and Kbin.
If AutoMod gets baked in to one or the other (or both!) then this sort of thing will go away down. I was a mod on a 500k+ user subreddit and AutoMod did most of the heavy lifting for this stuff.
Do you know of any Lemmy tools/mods currently? Right now I’m interested in something to auto post links from an RSS feed from official sources for my community, PS5. I’d like to auto post playstation blog posts and new YouTube uploads from the official channel. But I’m also looking for anything to make the community better.
As a reddit mod, other than AutoMod, what other tools did you use in your sub?
I’m sure they’re being worked on, but I haven’t heard anything yet. Theoretically any fediverse bot will be able to make posts, though.
One place to start may be here: https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter
That takes Reddit comments and copies them to Lemmy. I have not used it and cannot say how well it works. But it’s something to look at and a link I’ve seen thrown around often.
Theoretically, that’s kind of what you want to do, just with RSS instead. (It may also be possible to mirror any arbitrary subreddit using RSS, as Reddit allows viewing subreddits as RSS… that’d be a cool bot to open-source if someone does have the skills.)
Can you give us any behind the scenes insight into how automod actually works?
I mean, not much of it is behind the scenes. A lot of it is out in the open.
But generally, we had the following rules on the sub I helped run (/r/Disneyland):
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If something has a couple reports, send a modmail for a mod to investigate
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If something has a bunch of reports without any moderator action, remove it
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If someone called AutoMod a “bad bot”, send a modmail for a mod to investigate
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Automatically set post flairs based on keywords, common URLs, etc.
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Auto-takedown posts with other URLs (link shortener, YouTube link, clickbait rumor mill sites like WDW/Disneyland News Today, etc.)
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If a post seemed to be about our sister parks (“Tokyo”, “Paris”, “WDW”, etc.) then it was removed and the user asked to repost it in the appropriate subreddit
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If a post was about an in-person meet-up, remove it and direct them to our Discord
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If a post was asking about planning a trip, remove it and redirect to the planning subreddit
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If a post was an AMA, remove it and send a modmail to confirm the person’s identity
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Any sort of insults, politics (anti-vax etc.), or name-calling was removed, anywhere (this was a big one that did a lot of heavy lifting)
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If an account had negative karma, remove any posts it made (usually trolls or bad novelty accounts)
Those were the big ones. It caused a lot of false positives and modqueue would always be full, so mods would go through the list a few times a day to find any stragglers that got caught in the filter.
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