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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I moderate the /c/stopdrinking community. The person who created it didn't want to mod, and so I volunteered. Now the creator has gone inactive and hasn't been around for for 4 days.

I'd like to update the sidebar, etc, but only the creator seems to be able to do that.

What happens if he never comes back? If he can eventually be removed, what would be a reasonable amount of time to wait?

In the meantime, can an Admin change the sidebar text for me?

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So you blindly trust your browser rather than doing any investigation of your own? Maybe glance at the person’s profile next time, see if they behave like a bot before calling them out lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I did read their posts and some don’t jive. Also if browsers are mislabeling users, that’s another issue.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Since when does Edge flag bots? I legitimately have no idea what you're talking about. I can't find any information about anything that sounds even remotely close to a baked-in bot flagger in Microsoft Edge.

You said your work computer, do you know what extensions might be installed?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy has an option to mark an account as a bot under user settings, OP had a bot icon next to their username on all of their posts with a message that said the account was a bot. They have since disabled that setting for their account, so it no longer shows up, but you can see how someone could have jumped to the conclusion that the account was a bot (this icon won't show up on all Lemmy UIs, it's missing from the mobile website/Jerboa app, but it's shown on desktop). Anyway, no need to use such incendiary language, you may not be angry but it can easily come off as that over text.

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