[Non comic] Increase of bot accounts
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There's an increase of bot (I suppose) accounts who post a single or a few comics and delete their account.
One of the issue is that they're often divisive posts ("men bad", "women bad", "old bad", "young bad", ...) like they're trying to stir up some shit (is "9gag-isation" a word ?)
I'm not sure a simple rule to prevent new account (less than X days) from posting would suffice but I have no other idea.
How could this community deal with this phenomenon ?
PS : I'm not a mod btw, but I didn't see any rule about discussing the moderation, and I've seen other comments about this
Edit: they made a "tatann_2" account to post a few comics so it's obviously a troll
Edit 2: and now I'm getting downvotes on my posts/comments, even old ones, at least I've pissed off the troll
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this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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I am pinning this post because I think it is a global Lemmy problem, and debating this issue is necessary to find ways to decrease this type of spam.
Personally, I am reluctant to implement solutions like 'account age verification' or 'maximum daily posts' because this also affects legitimate users. However, we may need to do this if we do not find better solutions.
I reached out to the lemmy.world support comm, and they mentioned they are working on this issue. Apparently an avid ban-evader with an axe to grind has been crashing out for at least a month, lol.
I was referred to this thread on the issue: https://lemmy.world/post/39539586
There needs to be something done!
I’m getting these pathetic losers now going on downvoting sprees after I’ve been calling out their bullshit account spam.
Regular users aren’t spamming more than 10+ posts a day unless they are one of the handful of accounts that post a billion links and have some bot set up for posting. (Some bots are absolutely borderline spam but at least those accounts don’t get deleted)
Thank you. Sorry you’ve got to deal with this as I’m sure it’s no fun, but yeah it’s becoming a huge problem here.
I agree, when I joined lemmy I was annoyed I couldn't post in some communities because my account wasn't at least 30 days old. This would be a temporary fix.
And thanks for acknowledging the issue
The thing is, They obviously want to stir up some shit in the comments. Is it possible to somehow impose an automatic rule, that would block the comment section? For example, a new account posts a comic, if that account is deleted within X hours, close the comments section. Maybe only do that for accounts that were created Y days before posting. And then flag those posts accordingly so users can filter them out.
This is a nice idea.