Hi, I’m the author of @nitrofuel, a semi-automated tech news bridge to different Lemmy’s communities and instances. This is not a standard bot, beacuse all links have to be review by the mantainer (at the moment, me) before the bot can post it on all communities (about 14 are registred in the main dataset); i know this is kinda spammy, but the idea is to still keep a medium content-quality threshold. The bot user just got banned, after less than an hour of running?
Is it possible to be unbaned? Is there a limit of posts/communities? Is there an higher content-quality threshold? I can change how the system works, but I wanted to ask for a possibility to be unbanned / recreate the account with infranging ToS, in order to build a better platform.
(P.S. The Nitrofuel bridge is also designed to slow the content output if the user partecipation goes up, in order to slowly fade away when a lot of other user-generated original high-quality content is posted; the final objective is to have the account officialiy deleted when the interested communities are fully-grown and there’s a sufficent amount of high-quality original content)
I think that your assumption is partly right: for larger instances, most people will follow multiple related communitites, but it’s rare that they will follow smaller communities, especially if they are hosted on external smaller instances.
Anyways, the new fix should resolve the problem of the same “post” (not the same post from the same community, but the same post that the bot publishes on different communities). This will be tested and if it doesn’t fix it, the bot will be closed forever.
I also have the suspicion that nobody banned the bot, but that the admins just put an automated system that if lots of post were made (i think my bot made about 150 in 45 mins across 15 communitites and 7 instances), it bans beacuse it’s obviously automated. Yes, I also flagged the bot as a bot (beacuse it is, duh), that might have also induced the ban.