New anti-bot rules
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- AI-generated comics aren't allowed.
- Limit of two posts per person per day.
- Bots aren't allowed.
- Banned users will have their posts removed.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
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Lemmy is popular enough to have bots now? Crazy.
I don't get the appeal. Preparing to redirect to paid content? Just to feel cool?
it just takes one mentally ill person to make it their hobby to harass people on the internet
He is always posting divisive content. He probably downvotes certain comments and tries to instigate arguments to make Lemmy feel hostile. It's to turn people off and get them to leave imo.
Yeah I don’t get the appeal of bots at all. I also like that Lemmy isn’t that busy or popular personally.
Bots are for script kiddies what loud af exhaust systems are for incels: a megaphone for their inadequacies. If you gotta try to be the loudest thing around, artificially, you probably don't have a lot going right in your life. Unfortunately, self-reflection requires maturity and many of those people seem to have peaked in elementary school, so it'll never change.
The fact they try this hard on a platform like lemmy is even more pathetic. I'd feel sorry for them if it made a difference. Just best to ignore them and block them than waste energy on them. If they gotta artificially win internet points to feel good about themselves, then pat their little head, give them a good job, buddy, and move on.
I’ve considered using a script to post more often, so that the quieter communities don’t seem like a wasteland. More posts= more engagement = more human posts
I do love that I’m getting voted down for trying to make it busier to try and get more real people, because network effect is a thing. I get it, we want more actual human engagement, but some of these communities, 2 years in, have single-digit active members, on subs with 70k on That R Site.
Someone made 20 new accounts yesterday to downvote in the thread. You technically received 1 downvote.
What, actually? To what end? It’s lemmy, literally nobody gives a shit about downvotes. What an insanely stupid waste of time hahaha
What, actually? To what end? It’s lemmy, literally nobody gives a shit about downvotes. What an insanely stupid waste of time hahaha
On Piefed, you can schedule posts, fwiw.