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How do we get an instance removed? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by crossmr@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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It looks like a new spamming tactic will be to set up your own instance and then just mass spam to other instances from there. Case in point, vive.im I've been noticing spam in one magazine from a user of this. I banned them, but they can still post for some reason. Decided to visit the instance and it looks like some default front page with '3' active users. If you look at the user's account on there they've made 12k posts already and seem to have a script set up to push their blogspam 3-4 times per minute.

  1. We need a clear process to report and get these kinds of things removed quickly.

  2. Bans need to work properly and stop these users from posting.

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[–] ernest@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'll try to take care of it today and potentially clean up the activity. For now, I've limited the traffic from that instance. I'm currently working on additional tools for moderators.

[–] crossmr@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks Ernest. I definitely think if we've blocked a user in a magazine the microblog shouldn't be picking up stuff from them, and we need to be able to turn on automatic hashtag pickup or not.

[–] crossmr@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Hey Ernest, not sure if you did something or not, but still picking up posts from this guy

[–] crossmr@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Hell Ernest, 7 months on, this is still an issue.