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Discuss banning in lemmy.world (self.general)
submitted 2 years ago by djtech to c/general
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Hi, I'm the author of @nitrofuel, a semi-automated tech news bridge to different Lemmy's communities and instances. This is not a standard bot, beacuse all links have to be review by the mantainer (at the moment, me) before the bot can post it on all communities (about 14 are registred in the main dataset); i know this is kinda spammy, but the idea is to still keep a medium content-quality threshold. The bot user just got banned, after less than an hour of running?

Is it possible to be unbaned? Is there a limit of posts/communities? Is there an higher content-quality threshold? I can change how the system works, but I wanted to ask for a possibility to be unbanned / recreate the account with infranging ToS, in order to build a better platform.

(P.S. The Nitrofuel bridge is also designed to slow the content output if the user partecipation goes up, in order to slowly fade away when a lot of other user-generated original high-quality content is posted; the final objective is to have the account officialiy deleted when the interested communities are fully-grown and there's a sufficent amount of high-quality original content)

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[–] Azamandriel 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hate to say this but "let the market decide" on which communities thrive or fail. There is no pointin proping up empty communities with astroturfed bot spam. If people use a community it will survive otherwise it will die. All this repost spam only serves to further fragment the overall community into small cells of cloned content while limiting the discussion through this fragmentation.

TLDR: No Droids.

[–] djtech -1 points 2 years ago

I fully understand but:

  1. I just discovered that there's a repost feature that should remove the spamming problem, brining a common comments section and avoiding repeated apparanceses on the same feed.

  2. I can understand for small-to-empty communities on major instances, but the idea of the bot was to bring the human-moderated posts and links to communities on smaller instances also, in order to "boost" those instance: I think that only by helping smalling and even niche instances we can build a better Fediverse.

  3. Bots can be useful, if there aren't spammy and the content is human-moderated in order to keep a certain quality thresholdd. (Just my opinon)