Is this Lemmy thread full of bots/ Fake comments?
from Pro@reddthat.com to fediverse@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 13:04
https://reddthat.com/post/49134550
from Pro@reddthat.com to fediverse@lemmy.world on 01 Sep 13:04
https://reddthat.com/post/49134550
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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Considering the topic and that the Threadiverse has about 50K MAU, why do you think 5K comments is unreasonable?
Sorting globally by comments in my main page(I block suspicious instances) brings the following post as the second most comments post, this year:
<img alt="" src="https://i.imgur.com/vOVvvHp.png">
So, to put it simply.
Either the post I am suspicious of is highly lucky in comments or that the post comments is full of bots.
I don’t think it’s strange that a post like the one in your OP would be top (in terms of comments) for the year, with or without deleted comments.
Doesn’t unreasonable.
The majority of users lurk, and those that comment aren't all commenting on the same post. It's not at all plausible for 10% of the MAU to be commenting on one thread. Consider that no other thread sees anywhere close to those numbers, this is unheard of.
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.
Thank you, I have been informed about that.
I see it having 77 comments.
Same, the comments created by a spammer have been deleted by the mods and the count in OP’s screenshot still includes them, while 77 is the remaining count.
I see as showing 13,627. So probably script/s.
Which also explains my being banned from an instance after sleepily uninstalling my particular browser which stores passwords, rather than merely rm'ing from the home screen. I couldn't find my key at reinstallation, so had to rereg for some instances, then a few days later found it and was able to recover passwords. I can easily see why the admin of that instance assumed
It happens. But I'm not bothering with re-regging.
@FuckingHellGenocida@lemmy.cafe has a ton of deleted comments, then this comment replies to one of them. in which @GenocideCuntFuckoff@lemmings.world 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 @ZioDumbokrat69@lemmings.world
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.
83 percent of what? Seems like disinformation to me
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)
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/632d7896-d88e-4942-8cb7-6cdb0f58e831.jpeg">
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 :)
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There was a fool who used a bot on my post and the mod did it job and rrmove the comments and the bots
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
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