I am asking for 2 main reasons.
- I can’t even think of any way that a recent thread can get this giant amount of comments.
- I have a concern here about how Lemmy can fight bot accounts. Is there is any plan or way for that or is Lemmy defenseless against bots?
More importantly, is Lemmy. World admins/mods investigating or are aware of this?
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@[email protected] has a ton of deleted comments, then this comment replies to one of them. in which @[email protected] replies over 2000 times.
You also have this comment asking about bots. To which JordanLund replies it is a single person running scripts. His reply garners nearly 1300 replies from @[email protected]
Between those two sets of replies, that is 3,310 of the comments. This is not counting the top level comment spam.
There are only a handful of comments remaining in the thread. Less than 20 legitimate comments.
Thank you for your explanation.
Its all from one spammer who threadiverse folks regularly talk about needing to manage spam from (if I’m not mistaken about who it is. They change usernames all the time and I don’t keep up with their accounts cause I’m not an admin)
The mods appear to have dealt with the issue appropriately. For me it only shows 77 comments as the “count”, but there are like a bajillion deleted comments by the same guy
Thank you, I have been informed about that.
Sorry, I know getting lots of the same response can be a bit much
Hope you have a lovely day :)
When I click that link, and go there in a browser without logging in, I only see 70ish comments listed. But I also see a lot of removed comments as I scroll down, mostly from a single user. My uneducated guess is that there was already some chicanery in the thread, which the Mods have dealt with, and you are seeing the result of that.
As far as what can be done about it, there really is little to be done, as log as Lemmy remains open (and federated). Posts and comments hop around from one instance to the other, and while some instances can take a hard line against bots some other instance can be more permissive then it becomes a game of whack-a-mole. Active, open moderation is the best cure, but takes effort.
god that’s toxic. is lemmings.world a common instance to see that kind of unhinged shit from? I’m considering blocking the instance to prevent ever interacting with one of that guy’s alts
edit: apparently it’s a known problem. but yeah it’s only a matter of time before somebody like that starts hedging their bets and trying other places
If it still says like a few thousand comments, it is because the bans of the people who spam commented stuff didn’t make it to your server yet. Browsing this thread on lemmy.world just shows how many of them got removed
Considering the topic and that the Threadiverse has about 50K MAU, why do you think 5K comments is unreasonable?
