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DM Spam (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/main@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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The wonderful @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone has developed a script to help deal with DM spam.

With this script, when a user is permabanned, DMs sent from the account in the previous 24 hours will automatically be marked as deleted.

We have set the time to 24 hours to ensure that the majority of pre-existing (non spam) DMs are preserved in the event of an account being banned. That being said, if you lose a DM to this script that you need recovered, please reach out to myself or Kaity, and we can restore it manually for you!

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Understood, but at the moment, you can't even do that because you can't delete DMs through the user interface or set controls on who can send you DMs. Until we get options in lemmy that let people take control of their own approach to spam DMs, this is the best we can do, because unfortunately, "do nothing" just means spam impacts everyone, and given the nature of some of that spam, that's not an option.

Edit - I just noticed you're not a blahaj lemmy user, so this won't impact you in any way. It's specific to users of this instance