Just me?
I usually sort by subscribed so… IDK what is going on here
As a mod I can answer the last part of your question: If it looks like a bot, smells like a bot, acts like a bot, guess what it is?; A duck.
And ducks get banned.
Just to clarify: Only the ones trying to pass as human. Utility bots (and ducks) are OK provided they are marked as such. Creating sockpuppet accounts for later use is not. While the boards I mod don’t explicitly have rules against bots, zero interaction repost bots hoping to farm some upvotes do not help the community.
Some guy yesterday with a one day old account said something vaguely related to the post that sounded like an AI wrote it trying to sound human.
I tried to coax the LLM into a nonsense response but instead two people responded and I received -10 votes.
Looking into both their content history, it’s clearly the same person.
People are testing the abuse of no guardrails on Lemmy. It will get worse before a solution is created.
People are testing the abuse of no guardrails on Lemmy. It will get worse before a solution is created.
Literally why humans can’t have nice things
I’ve noticed that for at least the last year.
it has gotten considerably worse in the last six months though.
I haven’t noticed this at all and now I’m concerned that I’ve interacted with/upvoted bots :/
it’s likely you haven’t had interactions with them since you don’t have many comments posted. for example I have almost 3600 comments since 2024. I don’t even know if that covers the amount that I have deleted either, so it could be more.
Yup I’m seeing it, and then people wonder why there were so many rules on reddit banning posting until you had so much karma. Because bad actors spoil it for everyone.
It’s government bots. Trying to make star trek more popular than Star wars.
What about Star Gate?
We all the know government bots would never advocate for luxury gay space communism.
Clearly the bots are from section 31 attempting to preserve the timeline.
As a mod of !fuckcars, I’ve been getting reports of stuff being posted by new accounts that pretty much immediately get deleted (not banned, as far as I can tell; deleted by the owner). I feel like there’s something fucky going on, but I’m not sure what should be done because the content being posted is legitimately on-topic and there’s no user to take action against anymore.
It bothers me that I don’t understand the motive.
The fact it’s on topic makes me wonder if they’re meant to drum up engagement, like when new small multiplayer games use bots as opponents to make the game feel more popular. Fake it till you make it.
I’ve been banning them as bad faith engagement. If they post and don’t own their post by maintaining the account, why are they bothering? 🤔
Yeah, I see a lot of them posting comics.
I’m not on that community but in World, Europe and Politics community I’ve seen this issue too. Don’t recognize that alias with the numbers though. But a new user posts a whole lot for 3 hours and then deletes it’s own account. And then gets a new account. Repeat.
See this post
This is is Voyager? I don’t see it
should be an icon somewhere when accounts are < 1 months. See this picture it has this yellow thingy next to poster name <1 day
No real filter option as such, like Tesseract, but it helps for the " filtering".
Good call. I added “<1d” to filtered key words and it seems to work.
Yep. I generally report them as bot accounts because they delete their account after a few hours.
Random question. Did it only start happening less than two months ago, after I joined? I suspect that the IDF has followed me here.
I got banned from RPGmemes for apparently boosting a bot account. So no idea.
Had a similar issues, and could contact a mod with an alt account to get unbanned, but indeed looks like they used a nuke to kill a Goblin.
Also, I still don’t get the point for bot to post “engaging content”. At worst it’s a bit too cliché you wake up in the body of the last person you ask with or too rage-baity Say something good or bad about Israel but it’s not like karma is worth something here.
Not only that but if the bot is increasing engagement in your community then…isn’t that at least an admissible thing?
Yep happens a lot over at the Shitpost community and then you have the ones over at politics spamming news articles. It’s weird.
Nope. Any examples?
Because they spam post with brand new accounts, they often get reported and all of their content taken down within a few hours
I mean I pretty much browse new and see almost everything. Do you have any specific examples?
Here’s one that was a few posts above this one on the main page.
