Here comes the spammers... How do we get rid of them instance-wise, rather on each community basis?
Here comes the spammers... How do we get rid of them instance-wise, rather on each community basis?
Just right after i wrote about this type of spam on Reddit - reference https://lemmynsfw.com/comment/281912
see 2nd and 3rd posts in screenshot
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/04-moderation.html
from the documentation there is a way to ban a user from the site, but only admins have access to it, might be worth trying to coordinate with them to ban them
This is definitely something that will require bots.
i kinda figured it would require some sort of verification process so we are not banning people for little reason (a record system of bans from communities on the system, via a ticket or rep sheet) and maybe a script to ban if banned from x number of comms, or after it has been reviewed by an admin. though right this minute might be unrealistic implementing this in the near future