I’m seeing a lot of users on my preferred instance with <1yr old accounts, that have thousands of posts and comments. Whether these accounts are people with nothing better to do than post mindlessly 24/7, or are bots pushing some narrative, it doesn’t make a difference, I’d rather not see what they’re posting, because chances are, it’s hogwash. It would be nice to be able to filter out these highly active accounts, based on a set variable of max posts per day, and/or comments per day. Any account that exceeds that variable is filtered out, and any account below it is allowed.

Does anyone have insight on whether or not this sort of filtering is possible to achieve on Lemmy? Is anyone else interested in having this sort of functionality?

Edit: I’m not trying to throw shade on active users. I appreciate active users. I’m looking to block users with AI image generated profile photos and have on average 10+ posts per day and 20+ comments per day. Those accounts seem suspicious to me.

  • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
    572·
    23 days ago

    There aren’t that many of us (1 year account on @[email protected] ).

    Keep in mind that we could just be trying to keep the platform active, not pushing any agenda. 1000 posts in a year is 3 posts per day, so does not require 24/7 posting

    • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      23 days ago

      Was gonna say, I’m sat on 2.2k comments apparently in about 15 months, which is surprising to me given I probably only comment on about half the days in any given week.

      I will say compared to Reddit though, I tend to be more likely to comment here because there’re fewer people here and I want it to feel active enough for more people to continue joining (either lemmy in general, or just on smaller communities that don’t have a lot of activity yet).

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        61·
        22 days ago

        I will say compared to Reddit though, I tend to be more likely to comment here because there’re fewer people here …

        And the ratio of bots to humans on reddit is crazy high. There’s a lot less garbage to wade through here.

            • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
              21·
              21 days ago

              Fair point. I see that as a potential silver lining in this whole Kremlin disinformation era. At least some people will see it for what it is and learn.

              • Nougat@fedia.io
                31·
                21 days ago

                And it is the responsibility of those of us who do see the propaganda to call it out for what it is, so that passers-by who may not see it so clearly can learn from our experience.

                • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
                  21·
                  21 days ago

                  Absolutely.

                  The dictator alliance (Kremlin, CCP, Pyongyang, Tehran) are using our open societies and free speech against us. We need to use it against them too.

      • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        22 days ago

        I have about half as many comments. Its a better space to be in. It feels like im talking to real people here. At least not as jaded lol.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      131·
      22 days ago

      Then you check what quality content OP is posting and… 5 comments and this post. So they’re doing their part.

      Lurkers who post this stuff bug me. Wanting a stream of content but are so nitpicky about it, when all they have to do is start posting stuff themselves to kick up conversations

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
    43·
    23 days ago

    We’re just trying to build an active community here, nothing else, really.

    Also you made me realise i have 5.5k comment, seems like i’m a bit chronically online :/

  • BonerMan@ani.socialEnglish
    401·
    23 days ago

    In all fairness, most people with these accounts are the first migrators that keep the platform alive, if you block people that do push agendas (linkerbaan) it should be a good option instead of blocking everyone with a “older” account or a more active account.

  • aasatru@kbin.earth
    28·
    23 days ago

    I think there’s a lot of high-quality content coming from a few impressively active users on here. I wouldn’t want to be without it. Then again, each to their own.

    But it seems wiser to me to just block whoever bothers you.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    202·
    22 days ago

    I tried that route and you gonna be disappointed at how empty the place is without them since you wont see their posts which rack up the comments.

    A handleful of dedicated posters really keeping this place alive.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
    10·
    22 days ago

    This isn’t hard to do. I share the skepticism of some of the other users that this simple algorithm is going to give you a good feed, but I can probably knock up a quick script that can do this for you, if you want.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    111·
    23 days ago

    Afaik, there’s no apps that do that. You’re likely just going to have to block individual accounts

    Being real though, I often have more than 20 comments a day. It really isn’t that difficult to rack up if you’re bored and have the time. I’m not much of a poster, but 10 a day isn’t too far outside of feasibility for a person that’s into memery. So you’d end up filtering out people that would likely be good to have access to over time, even if it’s rare. If you do figure out a way to do it, might want to bump your threshold up a little.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
    5·
    23 days ago

    I think that it would be theoretically possible with a modified client. But in practice you’d filter a lot of genuinely active users out, and still let a lot of those suspicious accounts in. Sadly I think that blocking them individually is a better approach, even if a bit more laborious.

    On a lighter note, this sort of user isn’t a big deal here in Lemmy. It’s simply more efficient to manipulate a larger userbase, like Twitter or Reddit.

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
    5·
    23 days ago

    You can block them and over time it should get better, or you can write a script that does some checks and blocks them for you.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    23 days ago

    Any examples of users?

    You can fork lemmy and create the feature yourself if you want. I believe it uses postgres on the official docs so in theory should be “easy” (famous last words). Im not aware of any plugin or filtering like that.

    • voluble@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      42·
      23 days ago

      I don’t want to call anyone out individually. But I have come across accounts with 7-8k comments in the span of a few months. I don’t really think it’s worth reporting them, and don’t have the time or energy to research and block them individually, I’d just rather have them automatically muted on my end via a tool or plugin.

      I assumed this would be something I’d have to program myself, just wasn’t sure if it was clearly not possible or practical for one reason or another.

  • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    22 days ago

    I just manually filter them in Sync. I don’t have a concrete rule, but if someone has multiple posts at the top of my feed in different communities on more than one occasion, there’s a good chance I’ll filter them.

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    21 days ago

    If you can program you can probably create an instance and then a moderation bot that bans people with more then X comments or Y posts a day. maybe that would increase the average quality of content. sounds like an interesting experiment.

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    21 days ago

    I mean if you want to block all the users that actually participate here on Lemmy then I guess you can, not sure what the point of that would be though.