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Banning spam accounts (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (21 children)

Most forums have dedicated categories for common stuff like this. Written reports are fine if an explanation is needed, not for the newly created samename37 spambot account illicitly selling drugs (or something that is probably phishing, like the delta airlines refund ticket type stuff) without really doing much to hide it.

It's the same communities and overwhelming at times to the point it doesn't even feel productive or even needed to report it. This is the lowest of low-hanging fruit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (20 children)

Could you point me to some of the magazines where you feel this is particularly rampant right now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (19 children)

Lots of places that list ernest as the only moderator. Some I've seen are on communities such as: fediverse, internet, opensource, science, random (which also pulls content from various places, which had the added minus that spam from other instances will not have deletions federated). Even the ask communities are sometimes hit, or for instance in this community there's a spam thread for pills in Dubai right below this one in new (from 2 days ago).

Specifically I'm talking about stuff you'll either see piled up in the new feed OR in the 'random threads'/posts section. My new feed isn't lotsa spam like it was earlier, but the sidebar currently is.

Image link for non-Kbin. Also, BUFO TOAD VENOM

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Science often has maybe 6 pharma ads every morning. Today it had so many I went looking for someplace to discuss it.

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