So for the folks seeing all the deleted comments and going “Wow, that’s uncharacteristic!”
Someone created a bot that posted over 7,000 40,000 garbage comments in multiple communities and now almost 10 bogus accounts.
They got banned and removed pretty quickly, but the nature of federation means some people are still seeing the comments.
So you can stop reporting the dude with the weird Simpsons/George Floyd mashup images. They’re already nuked, it just needs to finish cleaning it up.
The moderation channel right now is also being flooded with reports on the account that is already banned and removed, and that’s making it hard to get around to OTHER legitimate reports.
This sounds like a good feature request. Once an account and their comment/post/etc has been removed, federated reports should be automatically handled in some manner.
I think they are, but in this case the sheer volume is the problem.
You’re probably right, and there’s probably a way to fix it. It’s not like this is going to be the last time it happens.
It’s also effectively a ddos. It denies mods the ability to do their job effectively and efficiently.
Sounds like some client rate limiting needs to be added…