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The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
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Banned users will have their posts removed.
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New anti-bot rules (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by lawrence@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone,

I think it has become clear that many bot accounts are swarming the communities. Sometimes we can’t be sure whether a specific account is a bot, but there are some clues. I will not post the clues here since they could be used by bot creators to bypass the rules.

Lemmy (the software) currently doesn’t have tools to automate moderation, so everything has to be moderated manually.

That said, I will be adding a few anti-bot rules to the /c/comicstrips community:

A limit of two posts per person per day.
Bots are not allowed. There will be heavy moderation of suspected bot accounts. If an account is identified as a bot, its posts will be deleted and it will receive a permanent ban.
Banned users will have their posts removed.

And thank you to everyone in the community who reports possible spammers and bots. It helps a lot.

Here is the previous post that I fixed before, which contains a few discussions about this subject: https://lemmy.world/post/42127013

Do you have any comments or suggestions? I’m listening.

(This is not the future that Asimov expected.)

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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lol the bots down voting all the comments is hilarious

Suck it bot-authors

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

It's all me 😭. The newest one got a belly laugh out of me though, not gonna lie. I crossed out the only one that isn't a day old account.

Here's what I think is going on, since calling him out is probably the best (copy pasted from an other comment):

He is always posting divisive content. He probably downvotes certain comments and tries to instigate arguments to make Lemmy feel hostile. It's to turn people off and get them to leave imo.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh I misunderstood this comment initially and thought you were admitting to making alt accounts to downvote but someone actually created a bunch of alts with your name to downvote you and others? Psychotic behaviour lol

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I wonder what his beef with grimy is, that's insane 😂

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do you see who voted on your comment?

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A Lemmy user built lemvotes.org . Consider donating if you find yourself using it, they have a github! It's useful for finding bots.

Admins and moderators can also see, although I think moderators can only see for their community. Some instances block lemvotes, mainly .ml .

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

Neat, the imposter grimy downvoted me three times, yay! Lol

[–] new_otters_raft@piefed.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Can you reach out to admins on any instance that the accounts are made on? Vote manipulation should be an easy instant ban. Putting together a list of accounts would help the instance admins figure out a pattern.