This should help us cut down on the trolls. We recommend other instances do the same, because they will likely be targeted also.

I apologize for all their gore-posts as well, no one should have to see that. We’ll try to look for more admins from different time-zones as well to get them faster.

The two other possibilities we have currently as options, are turning on required email verification, and as a last resort, closing signups. I personally would rather not do either, but they are options.

Many thanks to @k_o_t@lemmy.ml and @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml for banning those trolls.

    • Tomat0@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      Fantastic idea! I actually never thought about this, this could probably be done fediverse-wide.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    141·
    3 years ago

    Perhaps to avoid this type of user, a pre-school intelligence test would suffice.

  • CHEF-KOCH@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 years ago

    You do not need to apologize for actions of others, you did your best and you found a solution for this issue which is what at the end counts.

    Lemmy does lots of more work than most other platforms I know, admins and mods are often very fast and helpful + resourceful.

    My idea was to introduce some sort of reputation based system but the problem is, that bots maybe could abuse the system to upvote themselves to get some sort of credit or reputation, call it what you want. Most boards use captchas and eMail verification systems to workaround this. Maybe an option would be to enable captchas for users who have below x posts as a middle ground, lets say 1 captcha per new submission until you have 5 posts in total.

    Edit

    After thinking about it, another system without reputation or captchas or emails would be to hold back posts until someone has 5 posts and let the Mods, Admin approve it first.

    • obbeel@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      Reputation would just turn this into Reddit, where you can’t do anything or interact unless you use a single account or post what Reddit would like you to post.

      • CHEF-KOCH@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 years ago

        Yeah I updated my statement, gave an example. Up until 5 posts. I think that is okay as a middle-way. The system is not meant as competition system or to farm something.

  • mtumishi@baraza.africa
    5·
    3 years ago

    After upgrading to 0.15.1, I activated the signup form. I haven’t had to deal with the daily trolls. Not ideal but it helps.

  • Salamander@mander.xyz
    41·
    3 years ago

    Thanks a lot! I have implemented this in my instance too. This past week I was also saw several accounts being created to post ads.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    The brigading is really unfortunate and thanks to the admins for doing all the work to contain it. As Lemmy grows in usage requiring email verification may be unavoidable, but hopefully having a registration application will do the trick in the immediate term. Something like this was bound to happen sooner or later, so at least this is a useful test case for how such brigading and spam can be addressed going forward.

  • stopit@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    No worries. I have seen surprisingly few of these types of posts, so you’re currently doing something better then other alternatives and I appreciate your efforts to make things even better.

  • Mossy@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    I downvoted and reported as many posts as I can, I don’t know how much that helped but it was good to check back a couple hours later and see that the trolls’ posts had been removed

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
      5·
      3 years ago

      Imo its not necessary to go back to allowlist yet, and I’d rather add malicious instances to our blocklist. We’ve only had to add like 2 so far, but can easily add more.

      • Stephen304@lemmy.mesh.party
        1·
        3 years ago

        This is a random idea, but what if instance admins could subscribe to another or multiple other instances block lists? It might be a useful mechanism to reduce duplicate work. Smaller instance admins could subscribe to larger instance block lists to share the moderation burden.

  • troll@fapsi.be
    21·
    3 years ago

    Unless you can get everyone else on your shared instance list to do the same this is pointless. Look I just made this user on another instance that required email verification. I used a temp email service and am able to post what ever I want here.

    You should instead have a period the user has to wait before posting so that you can have a night sleep without worrying about trolls flooding your site.

  • Akimoto@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    Doing registration form with manual approval is a good first step. My 2 cents is you could also implementing an invite based registration where users are allowed to invite their trusted friends.

    Similar to how reputable private trackers works. There is form registration, interview, or invite from existing members. If existing member invites too many leechers, the current member will get a warning and ban eventually. This system is mostly working for private trackers so far.

    • Salamander@mander.xyz
      1·
      3 years ago

      Are the invite systems usually e-mail based? If so, it would be cool to be able to generate 1-time use codes to invite friends, so that providing an e-mail is not required.