cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/51288619

Hi All,

Due to some ongoing issues with harassment campaigns, we’ve had to setup a rudimentary monitoring system for all new users.

  • When a user’s signup is accepted, they will be automatically enrolled into the monitoring system. The admins team may also add accounts manually if they have been given a strike.
  • The system will monitor all posts, comments and DMs sent by new users, and bring them to the attention of the admin team if it appears suspicious. In egregious cases, it will auto-remove posts and comments if required, but a human admin will always review and reverse any false positives as soon as required.
  • Once we have validated that the user is not a spammer, they will be removed from the system.

We don’t want to go into too much detail on how it all works, but we can say that all the processing is being done locally on the instance server. For most of you, this wont have any impact, but some of you have been impacted by the systems false positives. It is also a good time to point out that DM messages are not private, and should not be used for anything that requires strong privacy.

There will likely be teething problems, but we are actively working on improving the bot to minimize impact and we are always open to feedback.

  • kingofras@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    I posted this here for cross instance discussion. Based on your response here and in the original thread, I understand your decision a bit better. This is still worth flagging super instance, both in terms of the admin-cultural way to deal with it, if there is stuff we could do on a software level and as an example of how not to communicate such information to the community.

    • Ategon@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Fair enough. Could you edit your crossposts to the new version of the post that has some clarifications just so there’s no misscommunication about this anywhere (you could put the original under a lemmy spoiler block which turns it into a dropdown for people that want to see original wording, details on how to do that here https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html. Or some other way you want)

      • kingofras@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        I can’t edit them on my client. The way they are Crossposted here is if the OP is updated, the Crosspost also updates as it is just a link without body.