It is the exploitation that’s wrong. That goes for animals as well as plants. If we can avoid that then things would be a lot better

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I’d love to see that happen.

I don’t see how you could prematurely know about spammers or trolls until someone reports them.

I don’t think you can. My suggestion was more focused on how admins make decisions after a report. Right now they have to do a manual scan of the person’s comment history and that is the part I find inefficient. If it was possible to just show extra high level information on the user it might make it easier for the admin to make a decision.

We don’t plan on adding any text-analyzing AI or anything like that into lemmy’s codebase.

Yeah using AI to try and analyze comments would be overkill and probably prone to manipulation anyways.

Edit: I’m sorta talking more specifically towards banning a user or seeing if what a user is doing is a repeated pattern.

Yeah that’s fair. It was just more of a possible what if.

Hopefully you’re able to get more people that can help develop the features that are in the backlog.

Anyways thx for answering. I was half expecting it to be skipped.

Well I am not 100% sure on what the best method would be.

I think the addition of letting moderators see who is voting on what posts is a nice addition since they would tend to be closer to where the content is.

More generally I was thinking about creating a dashboard that gave the admins statistics about that user.

Similar to how we as users can see how many comments and posts any user makes, it might be useful to allow admins to see statistics about which communities the user interacts with or some rudimentary similarity score with other users?

These are some ideas I thought of on the fly and have not thought about the implications but the gist is something that allows the admins to get a better understanding of what is going on from like a bird eye’s view.

Edit: and where -> on what posts

What is currently in the works to help admins locate spammers and problematic users on their instance?

Right now I believe it relies heavily on users reporting and admins looking through a users history however I think that is really inefficient.

Are there any better visualization tools that could be made to aid admins?

There are different software that could help this happen but I’m not sure how they’d handle all of lemmy’s content

There is Gun.js and OrbitDB (OrbitDB runs on IPFS using Helia)

and there is FreeNet which allows hosting of freesites on their network if you have something downloaded to your computer.

Some of the problems could be mitigated by volunteers running relay nodes hosting the kind of content they want to stay up (this would work with Gun.js and OrbitDB since it allows subscribing to specific data) or just general relay nodes that gives the network more capacity (this would be the method if you are working with FreeNet)

Again not sure how easy or hard this would be so I hope the developers share their thoughts.

Edit: When I say relay nodes hosting I don’t mean they have control over the data but instead keeps the data online. The data is still stored on the users own device and is shared between users if both are online at the same time.

When I say accept I mean any of the first 4 definitions from Merriam Webster excluding 3c.

Of all the things car companies do wrong, such as privacy, I really don’t think this is one of them.

My problem isn’t with car companies it is with capitalism just to make it clear what I am against.

Sometimes, we must face reality.

Why would I accept a reality that I think is fucked? No I am not gonna do that.

None of this applies to whatever the fuck the original post is about though.

Yeah but side tangents are fun.

Is that a good thing?

What annoys me about this is that it implicitly says that if you have more money you deserve to be safer.

Agreed. Also, does the axolotl mean anything?

Edit: Also since this is the closest post that I’ve found related to this topic. Is anyone here interested in a community where people make story-based forecasts for the future of something true today but won’t be in the future? Here is an example I did recently