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[–] 41 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)
  • [+] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)
  • [–] -1 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    The idea that you're thinking of moving to PieFed is hysterical. It really all makes sense now. Youre a shitlib "progressive" Democrat who has a lot tk say about "capitalism" and thinks anyone who identifies as a socialist is faking it. You are literally the perfect demographic for PieFed. Lmfao. I'm dead.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    If you can detect it, you could auto ban them, no?

    I think a rule against serial reposting would be fine and, probably, popular.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago

    I wouldn't like a blanket rule like that. I think that dropdown menu in the screenshot is perfect. Especially if paired with a toggle in the community settings that lets the mods ban posts from them entirely.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Isn't that just a client side filter, would be up to whoever runs the community/instance rules for handling bot accounts, and if they feel the accounts should be banned.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yes the screenshot is just the user settings. Admins are going to have to manually designate accounts as reposters because I haven't even tried to make an automated detection. That would be very hard to get right.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    How is this any different to a user blocking them directly? What a useless feature.

    Edit: Really? Trying to mark me as a bot or possibly dox my IP by visiting your link because I thought it was a bad idea?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    And what happens when you get this detection wrong?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    It's manually-applied and reversible. I can't reliably code an automatic reposter detection system because they're all different. It's going to have to be a human judgement.

    Similar to labelling things as AI-generated or NSFW - being a reposter isn't necessarily bad. It just means that people who don't mind whether they see it can do so and those who don't want to can avoid it, without the conflict that ensues when people with different needs and tastes are forced to share space.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    And you’re leaving this up to individuals, not your judgement, right? If so, good idea. If not, eww.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Individuals, yeah. Instance admins are going to need to designate reposters if they refuse to self-designate (and Lemmy doesn't have functionality for them to do that, except as a bot) and then it's up to individuals to decide whether they filter out reposters or not.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh, so you’re leaving the labeling to instance admins, not individuals. That’s problematic, but you do you.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    The label doesn't do anything until individuals opt in to filtering based on it.

    We can't leave it to the reposters to self-identify because

    1. Lemmy does not have the functionality to do that and

    2. reposters are deceptive and sneaky

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