Hi everyone,

I think it has become clear that many bot accounts are swarming the communities. Sometimes we can’t be sure whether a specific account is a bot, but there are some clues. I will not post the clues here since they could be used by bot creators to bypass the rules.

Lemmy (the software) currently doesn’t have tools to automate moderation, so everything has to be moderated manually.

That said, I will be adding a few anti-bot rules to the /c/comicstrips community:

• A limit of two posts per person per day.
• Bots are not allowed. There will be heavy moderation of suspected bot accounts. If an account is identified as a bot, its posts will be deleted and it will receive a permanent ban.
• Banned users will have their posts removed.

And thank you to everyone in the community who reports possible spammers and bots. It helps a lot.

Here is the previous post that I fixed before, which contains a few discussions about this subject: https://lemmy.world/post/42127013

Do you have any comments or suggestions? I’m listening.

(This is not the future that Asimov expected.)

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Author website

Hi mods.

I've created a full-featured web tool (runs on localhost, uses the Lemmy 0.19 API) with many "quality of life" features and excellent UX for community moderators. I am myself the mod of /c/comicstrips, and because I receive a considerable amount of reports, I had to create something to make my life easier.

The tool handles all my use cases and I think it's stable enough to open source it so other moderators can benefit from it.

I wasn't sure if I could show it here, in this community, so I'm asking first.

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Hi friends, mod here.

I want to take a moment to address the issue of low-quality AI-generated content that occasionally gets posted in this community.

While /c/comicstrips hasn't had a specific rule about this until now, it's become clear that some AI-generated comics being shared fall well below the standard of quality we aim to maintain. These low-effort posts not only disrupt the overall experience for readers, but they also devalue the hard work of the illustrators and artists who contribute original content here.

Starting today, a new rule is in place:

AI-generated comics are no longer allowed in this community.

Thanks for understanding and helping keep /c/comicstrips a high-quality space for everyone who loves comics.

Thanks to @[email protected] for finding the original author:

https://www.instagram.com/linhadotrem/