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anti spam idea (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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How about Lemmy having Junk and not-Junk buttons, like email clients have, which can be pressed to indicate spam posts. With a threshold of say five clicks by users on the Junk button it would automatically remove a post (or maybe "frozen" : still visible but greyed out and web links in post and comment made unusable, which might discourage spammers to spam on Lemmy instances). To avoid abuse (Like users creating more than one account to have posts deleted of users they have a personal problem with) this privilege would be given for example to long standing Lemmy users with a certain amount of comments and posts. By doing this the dependency on community mods and admins will be decreased and the empowerment of regular users increased while posted spam has a short life time.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I would prefer a button to send it to moderation and if moderation consider it, greyed it out or remove it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

I like that this avoids the sometimes-problematic wisdom of the crowds. But at the same time, this solution empowers 'wise' users only. And, perhaps more importantly, reduces the burden of work on mods. Moderating is work that we can all help reduce, I think.