So for the folks seeing all the deleted comments and going “Wow, that’s uncharacteristic!”

Someone created a bot that posted over 7,000 40,000 garbage comments in multiple communities and now almost 10 bogus accounts.

They got banned and removed pretty quickly, but the nature of federation means some people are still seeing the comments.

So you can stop reporting the dude with the weird Simpsons/George Floyd mashup images. They’re already nuked, it just needs to finish cleaning it up.

The moderation channel right now is also being flooded with reports on the account that is already banned and removed, and that’s making it hard to get around to OTHER legitimate reports.

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      so are users, are you volunteering? Moderators don’t get paid, they’re literally just users who occasionally hit the delete button when some makes a post that in general summary looks something like “FCK U ASRHLE, U SCK BLLZ!”, stuff that doesn’t contribute to the public good.

      How does a person who knows nothing about programming edit a code base? I wouldn’t know where to start. I could edit a text file, that’s about it.

    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
      82·
      8 months ago

      do you think knowing anything about how to write code for a website is a prerequisite for being a moderator on one of its forums? goofy

        • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
          72·
          8 months ago

          he’s not an admin…

          i’m ending this conversation to save my own braincells.

            • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
              31·
              8 months ago

              I remember when I worked a QA job on software and someone told me I could fix a problem myself if I wanted. I think he was surprised that I wasn’t a coder. I may be a super nerd who knows a lot about Unix and can do a lot of sysadmin stuff and can sling scripting solutions but not compilable code.