Do you block accounts that post with very high frequency?
Specifically the ones that post like bots but are not marked as bots.
The accounts that post into all sorts of comms including many they aren't a member of. The posts are usually pretty low quality and its clear the operator is not curating anything.
I find them annoying so I block. What do you think about it?
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Only if I don't like the content they post
i wonder how many people have blocked me so far…
Just doing it now, dear.
considering this is coming from someone who stalked my post history just to reply to a comment from almost a week ago because a post of mine (from yesterday, no less) triggered them so much, and who also felt the need to announce they’d blocked Lemmy’s womensstuff community (https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/25340974), I’d say: good riddance. 🫶
Well violet's posts upset me.
Nah it's the stalking of violet's post history and the announcing of your departure that garnered my reaction.
I wanted to make a decision on whether I did want to block violet or not so I took a look at the account history. This opportunity just seemed too serendipitous to avoid.
Keep culture war-ing away. X
Right back at ya lol
Yeah, I tend to block the sources that make me feel like I have to contribute to it. I don't think it's good for me.
That's fair! Everyone should do what's best for them insofar as they're not harming others :)
Ew why are you so obsessed?
It just wouldn't be the same without you here.
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I never block you, but I always tag you and your many alts with some variation of
Definitely A Womanor something else that implies that I think you're probably a dude who gets off on horny posting as a woman.kinda transphobic but ok
Yep. I'm not trying to see somebody just showing me the top 50 posts off their reddit feed day after day after day. That shit sure does numbers here though.
Ever had that reddit friend IRL who's just always showing you reddit stuff you already saw? That's who those are. They don't comment, they don't post oc, they never mix up their posts, it's a bot. Straight to the block bin.
There's that one guy who keeps making accounts with the same cm00* username but different servers. I wish piefed/blorp could block accounts based on a regex , wildcard, or other filter.
Yes and this operator does not seem to even read the content they repost. After they posted very low quality misleading items a few times, I blocked all of their accounts.
I'm pretty sure that they specifically repost things posted from .ml accounts. They aren't looking at the posts or hoping to farm "karma" or whatever, they're trying to de-populate the instance.
Can be pretty annoying when all the .ml posts line up with the cm00* posts.
Yes, the operator is very public about their goals. This doesn't make it any less annoying and by all measures it is not having the desired effect. I like that I can just block and make it all disappear.
It's absolutely having the desired effects, when I started I was needing to sift through 100-200 posts every morning when I start
Now its down to 30-40 and select comms I monitor increase in MAUs
How do you block all their accounts at once?
Unfortunately I only know how to do it one by one but that works fine.
I’m not sure how come anyone would try to farm karma when Lemmy doesn’t have karma points of any kind.
Yea that's right
::: spoiler Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
You could always just block .ml :)
I did not know the reason you did it; before today i thought it was just some kind of paranoia about always needing to register new accounts.
Have you ever put the context thing in your copied posts?
I mean, you're not entirely wrong, the multiple accounts is for a few different reasons, but one of them is defense against impersonation accounts which has happened to me lol
But the main reasons for the many instance accounts are kinda unrelated to the ml crossposting kinda are, they are
I've thought about it, but ultimately decided against it, I felt it would make the thread in whatever comm I'm posting it in too off-topic. So instead i just comment it whenever it's inquired about
What does OQB mean?
Not sure why your comment didn't federate to my lemdro.id account lol
But it stands for Original Question By
I could, but for the very reasons you cite instances don't defederate from them, I don't. I block individuals that post bullshit I don't like, but my feed is already small as it is without purging a sizable amount of it.
Fair, but I can tell you that a lot of .ml comms only appear to be very large because they're one of the original instances so their comm subscriber counts are quite bloated with dead and deleted accounts (I don't think subscriber counts decrease for any reason other than you actually clicking the unsubscribe button on a comm)
If you take a look by MAUs (a much better metric to go by) the non.ml Threadiverse is actually very healthy
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month
My decision isn't based on metrics, just by how many .ml posts/comments I see that I know I wouldn't if I'd blocked the instance. I know a lot of crap comes from them, and I don't doubt they're problematic, but for the most part, the shitty posts and comments from them are down voted to hell so I never see them, or are from users I've already blocked.
I review each and every crosspost since it's all done manually, I only filter out propaganda (like the constant deluge of Russian propaganda on .ml) and spams/scams
Obviously I'm human so I make mistakes, it happens, but the point is you can have the freedom to actually call out and/or discuss such things on another instance without needing to worry about getting censored and/or banned by the .ml admin for doing so
Beep is another one like that. I don't block them specifically so I can call out their art theft, because they feed people's comics to AI to remove the watermark.
Context
::: spoiler Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I block posters and commenters I don't want to see. Its that simple.
I used to avoid it because I thought I'd create an echochamber, but I've come to realise that there's a few users with fixations about specific issues that just give me the shits honestly.
Someone once told me that blocking people to curate your feed was a valid use case and I've never looked back. I don't care too much about an echo chamber if I am removing people who are absolutely unhinged.
Are you talking about age gaps dude?
But how would you feel if a financially stable, but socially flawed, middle aged woman from the South, were to date a moderately financially stable, but socially accepted, young man from Singapore? What are your thoughts on that?
No.
Certain new accounts come out of the gate posting to the same 5 or 6 groups before deleting themselves.
I get suspicious over every new account.
At least they are posting something and keeping the community active. We can't all be lurkers.
For the most part…no, I don’t. I’m still of the mindset that there’s not enough people posting across communities, so blocking accounts is an absolutely last resort for me personally.
That said, there is one account that I know of that I question if it’s really a person or a bot. I won’t say who. However, they post multiple times an hour across a lot of communities. (I even went to their profile once to see when there would be a sizable break/gap for when they should be sleeping and didn’t find a gap within a 24 hour window!) I actually removed myself from one community because the posting there became way too frequent. Elsewhere that same account posts relevant content, so that was a better balance for me.
TL;DR - Usually no, so long as they’re posting what I consider acceptable/decent quality content. I’m more likely to remove myself from one community than block an account to tone down the level of posts in my subscribed feed.
I definitely understand finding it annoying though.
Also, welcome to Lemmy!
I block them if
(f * t - p - e) / q * rpasses a certain threshold, where f is the frequency of posting, t is how annoyed I am by the general theme or topic of those posts, p is the cuteness of their profile pic, e is the amount of effort they put into each post, q is the overall quality of the posts, and r is a random number generated by my subconscious.I think that's just called a "constant." Like: "Kbal's Constant". You don't have to explain it, it just is. You should probably come up with a Greek letter for it tho.
Doesn't constant imply unchanging? For this to work the formula would need to have a random variable times the constant, which seems to make calling it a constant miss the point.
υ?
I think you need to brush up on the concepts of 'random' and 'constant'
lel yeah good point.
The only account I've had to block so far is LadyButterfly. I'm usually against blocking people but I just couldn't take it anymore.
I have six nicoles in my block list 😄
thats amateur hour compared to my cm0002 blocks. got to be at least a dozen.
Ah, Nicole. Classic
I think I blocked a couple of accounts years ago that were just reposting ancient memes from reddit in bot-like numbers. But it seems like the majority of content here falls under that category, so blocking seems futile. Can't even use downvoting to correct the issue because our votes aren't private/anonymous here and I don't need a large account seeing that I downvote their content every time I come across it. It would have to feel personal at that point 😆
I don't mind big accounts in principle, I just don't want to see memes from 2018 being reposted every day with the same titles, and for there to be no other content from those accounts.
Downvote away, who cares if some massive account sees you don't like their content? Also, who spends that much time checking who does(n't) like what you post?
Maybe I'm weird, but I don't care past a basic up/down count. And even then, I've seen some of the shit that gets upvotes in certain comms, I'm not concerned with going against the hive mind on certain topics.
I've blocked 43 users and 6 communities, fediverse looks great now.
No, not consciously. However, I do block accounts that reply to me in a shitty or condescending way. Life's too short to deal with these people and I'll never meet them in real life. I've wasted far too much time engaging with arseholes over on Reddit, but since I've moved here I've been pleasantly surprised by the civility of most discourse. So that's why I block anyone wrecking my experience.
They're probably not bots mostly, just people who choose to scroll the "All" feed instead of maintain a "Subscribed" feed. I don't roll that way myself, but I guess it allows you to see more content.
Like I'm sure there literally exists some user who secretly bots Lemmy, but why would anyone spend time and money botting our irrelevant little ass crack of the Internet?
No, mainly because who else is really posting?
There's a fair few high volume posters who are definitely not bots, just terminally online (said with love!)
That's not to say there aren't bots that show up, but it's definitely not all the high volume accounts
I think the only ones I've blocked are mostly just obviously malicious, I think there's a one or two on there from ages ago I just found kinda unfunny, it's not really tied to the volume of posts.
There's not an endless amount of content here anyway, so I'm not gonna block someone just for contributing a lot, there needs to be some negative aspect to the posting for me to block
The ones I see who post multiple times per hour and never comment are quickly blocked by me. I prefer a smaller amount of thoughtful posts than a continuous blast of low effort posts with no engagement.
I don't block anyone but I do post frequently. I only ever get annoyed when someone is posting the same thing in multiple communities at the same time.
Sometimes. I like to interact with people who comment, but also with those who post those threads. If they post too much, they most likely don't have time to talk about it.
Same i.e. 8 days acct age, 512posts, 2359 comments
I don't block almost anyone, usually the egregious bot accounts get banned. I think I've blocked maybe 3 accounts.
I don't care if they're a bot or not, if the account posts frequently enough that the posts take up a screen's worth of my feed, usually back to back posts, I block them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y89j2ZROMXw
Yes, I feel the same way.
* 3+ almonds touching is too many!
I have a few accounts blocked but I mostly block communities.
Only a few obvious bots because they were filling up my feed. I like seeing posts from users, especially when it comes to news.
Sometimes. I tend to do it when the posts are all low quality or I have seen them reposted a lot. Haven't done this since I switched from Reddit to Lemmy, though.
naw, i dont give a shit. my lifes too short
Yeah there's a lot of bots that aren't marked as bots that just repost from reddit
The other day I read a comment that says you can automatically filter out users wo post with high frequency. Is that true, does anyone know how? I've only looked at the settings through Boost.
I would also like to know how to do that. As far as I can tell that is not currently possible on any of the Threadiverse platforms.
It depends on what the account is posting prolifically. For example, I’ll happily read silence7’s interesting links any time, but Patnou just asks weird questions over and over and I blocked them after a while. Weird questions may produce more engagement in the form of comments, but that’s a flawed metric because overall it’s just not interesting to see in the feed.
There's one reposter I want to block. But he has so many posts that his Mbin profile page refuses to load, and that's where the "block" button is...
If it hits my feed regularly and has no value or makes me cringe, hell yeah. We don't have an algorithm here to help you sort out the content, your subs and blocks do all the lifting.
Someone arguing in bad faith? Block.
Someone reposting the same drivel day after day? Block.
Don't care for the content of a community? block.
No need to fight, no need to complain, I have ~150 blocks, you're doing them and youself a favor.
nah, patnou is ok if a little lost
No
I don't even know how to block. I don't want my experience to be an echo chamber plus creating new accounts is so easy that blocking doesn't avoid motivated spammers.
No users yet, but I’ve blocked a few communities, mostly ones in foreign (to me) languages. I do find myself regretting that I signed up for an instance that doesn’t allow downvotes; sometimes you see posts that really really need to be downvoted 😄
Yes
No
no not specifically but I could see doing it if I felt it was warranted.
Crazy how you can always tell what somebody got ran off reddit for
Oh wait it's just cumfart again.
Sounds like projection homie
LOL. When was the last time someone on Lemmy or reddit tried to understand your opposing viewpoint? Probably never.