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There seems to be a few waves of users created just to post spam specifically in kbin. It's quite strange as the posts are so obvious and they keep getting downvoted. I'm also blocking the users but I can't see a way to report them. Is there a better way to handle this situation?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I, personally, have been blocking the users submitting the spam. This isn't a good solution, but it does clear my feed out and make it so that I forget the spam is there until I see another user I need to block.

The other thing I have been doing is submitting content to my favorite magazines - if we actively engage the mags, we can force the spam down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I do this, too, and I've been wishing there were a setting I could set where kbin would just auto-hide content submitted by accounts that have been blocked by at least X other accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I am blocking too but wanted to help remove the accounts by reporting if I can. I should become more active but after years of inactivity in social networks it's hard to start again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They seem to only be in very specific mags like fediverse, tech, and science. All of which have many subscribers but only have @ernest as their mod (I think science has another but they're absent).

I think the short-term solution is a) to get a few more mods on these

and b) for now I subscribe to technology instead of tech and something on another instance called fediverse_press instead of fediverse

@HeartyBeast

@Yprum @losttourist @snooggums

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes I was noticing that trend with the specific mags, but was also wondering if it was just the ones I'm following and others have it but I don't see it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@Yprum I don't think so, because I sort by All/new fairly regularly (which is when I see these ones).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can easily report if you're using kbin website, don't know how it works if you're using an app. You just hover over the "more" link and a dropdown appears with "Report" as the first option.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can report. Whether it actually does anything is a different question

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah of course, but at least I will feel like I did what I could to bring attention to those accounts if anything would be done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aaaah thanks so much... I feel dumb now XD
I never thought of checking that, I was kinda looking for a way to report the user itself, not the post... I will start doing this too.

I'm using the webpage from the browser by the way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The only way to resolve this situation is to get Ernest to delegate some of the instance moderation and amount. Every other path forward leads to failure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I report them but I don't know if reports federate from lemmy to kbin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@RobotToaster let's do an experiment, come and report a test comment on one of my kbin communities...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, tell me what comm and I'll do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Question: How do you block users? I'm relatively new to kbin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you're on a desktop (or other large screen), click on the user name to go to their user page and there's a block button in the sidebar on the right. If you're on a mobile device (or other small screen), go to their user page and the block button should be prominent on the right of the "follow" button.