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Can we help against spammers? (kbin.social)

submitted 7 months ago by SharkAttak@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Is there any way we, as users, can help deal with the waves of spam-meds-bots? When I get the chance I downvote, but that's not possible for microblog. Do reporting them have any effect, or they go in the pile and are more a nuisance than a help?
If we blocked the culprit users, would it do anything other than us personally, even by just reducing their visibility?

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[–] BaldProphet@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Most of the communities with significant spam problems have no moderators other than ernest. It's up to him to recruit more people to help moderate those.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 4 points 7 months ago

In his most recent announcement, he said he's bringing 2 new instance mods. But I couldn't find the actual announcement post for the new team members. Unfortunately, these days Ernest often disappears for days or weeks at a time, so there's really no telling when we'll see the impacts of this.