Comment on Robot moderation could be coming to your town
Backlog3231@reddthat.com 4 weeks agoHow many new accounts do you want? I delete and recreate my account all the time. I’d be happy to make new accounts and put a bunch of comments in them for you. I could make one a week or something.
auk@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
You can do that now, and evade human moderation in the same way.
I don’t want you to give it a try in the Santa communities, even though it would be a badly-needed test of the system. The code that’s supposed to detect and react to that doesn’t get much action. Mostly it’s been misfiring on the innocent case, and attacking innocent people because they’re new and they said one wrong thing one day. I think I fixed that, but it would be nice to test it in the other case, with some participation that I know is badly intended, and make sure it’s still capable of reacting and nuking the comments.
But no, please don’t. The remedy for that kind of thing is for admins to have to do work to find and ban you at the source, or look at banning VPNs or something which is sad for other reasons, so I don’t want that. Just leave it until real bad people do it for real, and then me and the admins will have to work out how to get rid of them when it happens.