(edit: rule updated please read!) New Sitewide Rule about Spamming
(edit: rule updated please read!) New Sitewide Rule about Spamming
Please only post a few posts to a community at a time.
Over the past week I've seen a few users posting dozens of photos all at once to the same community which could be seen as spamming. You may mean well by posting several posts at once, but because of lemmy’s limited algorithms this will saturate the feeds of many people on this instance and other instances.
What is considered spamming will be left up to the admins/mods, but if you’ve made more than 10 posts at a time in a single community, consider waiting until a later time to continue posting to that community.
edit to add: please limit cross posting the same image to 5 times or less
Spamming may result in a 1 day or longer community or sitewide ban depending on the severity and if it's a repeated offense.
Some things to consider to prevent spamming: If you have multiple images from a photoset, maybe post them all as one or two posts.
Reporting: If you want to report post spam please put "post spam" or something similar in the report, as it would be hard to tell from a single post reported that its breaking a rule
Slightly off topic, but as lemmy is so low volume, pretty often the same image shows up in the feed 3-4 times next to each other from someone crossposting to multiple communities. I would suggest that crossposting be limited as much as possible for that reason. As the post volume still is so small there's not much reason to even go to a topical community. I just check local once in a while and even then I quickly get down to already seen material so the chance of not seeing a post is pretty low unless it is a community I've blocked, but then odds are I won't like it anyway.
Just my opinion, of course. Thoughts?
I think there's merit to cross-posting, and until I see an egregious misuse of it I don't want to police users too much, I put this rule into place because I did see a ridiculous amount of posts in single communities. I'll talk with the other admins and see what their opinion is though.
I actually want to see more native cross posts. What annoys me, is the same image uploaded multiple times to different communities (often with a different title).
That would be a repost
Repost and crosspost are different.
Annoying as hell when the posters spam into communities that don't they don't align with, too.
"Pussy? I have one of those. Submit."
Many get a pass despite breaking rules in those communities, indicating apathetic mods, or perhaps they want more content...
I apologize if I’m one of them 💜
You're also fine because your posts are to different communities and are often varied, you're actually a good example of posting a lot without it being spam IMO
One of the offenders. Will take care from now on.
I appreciate that, yours isn't actually that bad, there was someone who posted literally 40+ images in 40+ posts in the same community. Not only that but there were photos of the same image set split across several different posts
That sucks for everyone. I'd rather see similar photos in a single post, and mark the post in a way that makes it obvious that it has more photos.
Thanks! This was something that drives me crazy, but it seems like the biggest offenders are repost bots (which I don't have any problem with in general) and I suspect they are going to miss this post.
So AI takes our job because they can write 1000 words in 10 secs but we, on the other end have stupid bots..
Really appreciate this, just wish it was a rule everywhere! I sometimes notice a whole lot of the same kind of posts in my feed, this might fix that. Thanks!
what if someone were to release the same picture in several communities at the same time?
"...because of lemmy’s limited algorithms this will saturate the feeds of many people on this instance and other instances."
I would see that as some kind of post spam too
yep, just added that to the rules
thank you for the update sir!! hope i wasn’t an offender but i will be extra careful in the future to make sure lemmy is a safe and respectful community. it’s been so good to see all these beautiful new OC girls join the site and we all need to do our part to make them feel welcomed!! the more OC, and the less porn reposts, the better the community will be 🫶💖
Put it this way, if you were one of the people I was mentioning in the post you would have probably received a short ban by now lol
Thanks, I've seen quite a lot of bodybuilders yesterday ...
Yes this is the exact situation lol, multiple people did it
The weekend was covered with chicks with dicks too
Question, as this is happening this very minute, how do we best go about handling this?
Should private lemmings (respectfully) contact the spammer, or should this handled by mods?
Mostly I'm thinking what is less intimidating, and/or lowers the risk of people coming off as rude. We do want the posts, just not all at once
great question, probably should have covered that lol, just report it, probably best to say "post spam" or something similar in the report
From the post I have not understood where to report it.
This community has been spamming like crazy. Clearly they don't care about rules or any sane posting policy. Feels like they just created a bot that dumps a folder with dozens or hundreds of pics.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
They've been temp banned as a warning, if they do it again they'll be banned permanently
Great to hear that. Thank you very much.