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Banning spam accounts (kbin.social)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Banning spam accounts on kbin.social is a cumbersome affair.

E.g., today @bayaz tried to ban several spam accounts. But that just did not quite work:

Instead of straight forward banning the accounts responsible for spam, those accs got unbanned.

How come?

If magazine owners ban a spam acc which prior went unreported, the ban button triggers an unban command.

To effectively ban accounts, they must be reported first. Approving the report will trigger a ban. I.e. magazine owners must report the account identified as spam to themselves to enforce a ban.

Therefore, pre-emptive banning of spam accounts does not work on kbin.social.

This is a serious problem which needs to be addressed asap.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (12 children)

To be clear, you're talking about /m/food on kbin.social? And particularly the threads side?
I'm the mod for that community, and I'm not seeing any amazon links, gummies, etc

Amazon links no, that was Books and the other user misspoke in one of their comments.

The other stuff, you deleted some of it after I commented, some is still there. Screenshot attached, the last one is about food but is that user's only post and looks awfully like a thinly-veiled advertisement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

EDIT: I should have started with "thanks", by the way. I appreciate the response.

This is so weird. I don't see any of those first four posts. I see the fifth (I'm actually the downvote), and I agree it's sketchy, but I'm trying to get just the absolute worst out for now.

Also, I have two posts you don't have. I'm viewing this directly in Firefox -- are you in an app of some kind?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Also, I have two posts you don't have. I'm viewing this directly in Firefox -- are you in an app of some kind?

That is weird, and nope also Firefox. I see what you do if I log out though. ~~I checked, I don't seem to have that user blocked~~, and the spam still there then gone on logout/private-window is something else entirely.

EDIT: I don't see those 2 posts because they are categorized as Macedonian. I have it set to English only. Though the posts look like they are in English.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@bayaz @insomniac_lemon

Yep, I meant to say /books when I was talking about Amazon links. Sorry.

As for the posts on /food, I have totally vanilla settings (no language filtering or anything) and I saw all of the posts you both mentioned.

Well, with the exception of the garbage posts, because in answer to lemon's earlier question, those have long since been scrubbed on the filter side. But they did exist before I started filtering.

All of that low hanging fruit kind of stuff has been banished, and I am mainly working on edge cases at this point.

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