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Banning spam accounts (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by testing@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Banning spam accounts on kbin.social is a cumbersome affair.

E.g., today @bayaz tried to ban several spam accounts. But that just did not quite work:

Instead of straight forward banning the accounts responsible for spam, those accs got unbanned.

How come?

If magazine owners ban a spam acc which prior went unreported, the ban button triggers an unban command.

To effectively ban accounts, they must be reported first. Approving the report will trigger a ban. I.e. magazine owners must report the account identified as spam to themselves to enforce a ban.

Therefore, pre-emptive banning of spam accounts does not work on kbin.social.

This is a serious problem which needs to be addressed asap.

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[–] shazbot@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

@bayaz @insomniac_lemon

Yep, I meant to say /books when I was talking about Amazon links. Sorry.

As for the posts on /food, I have totally vanilla settings (no language filtering or anything) and I saw all of the posts you both mentioned.

Well, with the exception of the garbage posts, because in answer to lemon's earlier question, those have long since been scrubbed on the filter side. But they did exist before I started filtering.

All of that low hanging fruit kind of stuff has been banished, and I am mainly working on edge cases at this point.