• @[email protected]
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    113 months ago

    You know what this feature is really useful for? Seeing who upvotes spammers to preemptively block them. Admittedly, I haven’t had much of a use for that aspect since kbin.social died, but it was neat while it lasted.

    • @mke
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      73 months ago

      Sorry, what’s an upvote spammer and why are they undesirable?

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        Op is talking about accounts that upvote spam content. For the most part those accounts will be the spammer’s alts that will be posting spam when the current account gets banned. Blocking them while they are still being used for vote manipulation means you wouldn’t have to see their spam in the future.

        • @mke
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          53 months ago

          Wow, did I misread that badly. Thank you for explaining.

    • Lemminary
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      Someone mentioned something similar in the GitHub thread, suggesting that this should only be available to mods or admins. I thought it was reasonable.

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      23 months ago

      To spam on here I suppose it’d be good to try to start a popular community on your own instance and then see who usually reports and downvotes spam, then block them from accounts you plan to use to astroturf or otherwise send spam.

      Sigh