Specifically the ones that post like bots but are not marked as bots.
The accounts that post into all sorts of comms including many they aren’t a member of. The posts are usually pretty low quality and its clear the operator is not curating anything.
I find them annoying so I block. What do you think about it?
naw, i dont give a shit. my lifes too short
The accounts that post into all sorts of comms including many they aren’t a member of. The posts are usually pretty low quality and its clear the operator is not curating anything.
They’re probably not bots mostly, just people who choose to scroll the “All” feed instead of maintain a “Subscribed” feed. I don’t roll that way myself, but I guess it allows you to see more content.
Like I’m sure there literally exists some user who secretly bots Lemmy, but why would anyone spend time and money botting our irrelevant little ass crack of the Internet?
i wonder how many people have blocked me so far…
I never block you, but I always tag you and your many alts with some variation of
Definitely A Womanor something else that implies that I think you’re probably a dude who gets off on horny posting as a woman.kinda transphobic but ok
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Just doing it now, dear.
Ew why are you so obsessed?
considering this is coming from someone who stalked my post history just to reply to a comment from almost a week ago because a post of mine (from yesterday, no less) triggered them so much, and who also felt the need to announce they’d blocked Lemmy’s womensstuff community (https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/25340974), I’d say: good riddance. 🫶
Well violet’s posts upset me.
Nah it’s the stalking of violet’s post history and the announcing of your departure that garnered my reaction.
I wanted to make a decision on whether I did want to block violet or not so I took a look at the account history. This opportunity just seemed too serendipitous to avoid.
Keep culture war-ing away. X
Keep culture war-ing away. X
Right back at ya lol
Yeah, I tend to block the sources that make me feel like I have to contribute to it. I don’t think it’s good for me.
That’s fair! Everyone should do what’s best for them insofar as they’re not harming others :)
It just wouldn’t be the same without you here.
No. If you block someone you admit defeat. Arguments/disagreements are a part of life and it’s important to at least try to understand opposing viewpoints otherwise you will not grow as a person.
Crazy how you can always tell what somebody got ran off reddit for
Oh wait it’s just cumfart again.
Sounds like projection homie
LOL. When was the last time someone on Lemmy or reddit tried to understand your opposing viewpoint? Probably never.
LMFAO! Way to miss the point Captain Dumbass
I don’t block almost anyone, usually the egregious bot accounts get banned. I think I’ve blocked maybe 3 accounts.
Only if I don’t like the content they post
There’s a fair few high volume posters who are definitely not bots, just terminally online (said with love!)
That’s not to say there aren’t bots that show up, but it’s definitely not all the high volume accounts
I think the only ones I’ve blocked are mostly just obviously malicious, I think there’s a one or two on there from ages ago I just found kinda unfunny, it’s not really tied to the volume of posts.
There’s not an endless amount of content here anyway, so I’m not gonna block someone just for contributing a lot, there needs to be some negative aspect to the posting for me to block
The ones I see who post multiple times per hour and never comment are quickly blocked by me. I prefer a smaller amount of thoughtful posts than a continuous blast of low effort posts with no engagement.
Sometimes. I like to interact with people who comment, but also with those who post those threads. If they post too much, they most likely don’t have time to talk about it.
Certain new accounts come out of the gate posting to the same 5 or 6 groups before deleting themselves.
I get suspicious over every new account.
Yep. I’m not trying to see somebody just showing me the top 50 posts off their reddit feed day after day after day. That shit sure does numbers here though.
Ever had that reddit friend IRL who’s just always showing you reddit stuff you already saw? That’s who those are. They don’t comment, they don’t post oc, they never mix up their posts, it’s a bot. Straight to the block bin.
I block them if
(f * t - p - e) / q * rpasses a certain threshold, where f is the frequency of posting, t is how annoyed I am by the general theme or topic of those posts, p is the cuteness of their profile pic, e is the amount of effort they put into each post, q is the overall quality of the posts, and r is a random number generated by my subconscious.r is a random number generated by my subconscious.
I think that’s just called a “constant.” Like: “Kbal’s Constant”. You don’t have to explain it, it just is. You should probably come up with a Greek letter for it tho.
υ?
a random number
I think that’s just called a “constant.”
I think you need to brush up on the concepts of ‘random’ and ‘constant’
Doesn’t constant imply unchanging? For this to work the formula would need to have a random variable times the constant, which seems to make calling it a constant miss the point.
I’ve blocked 43 users and 6 communities, fediverse looks great now.
I block posters and commenters I don’t want to see. Its that simple.
I used to avoid it because I thought I’d create an echochamber, but I’ve come to realise that there’s a few users with fixations about specific issues that just give me the shits honestly.
Are you talking about age gaps dude?
But how would you feel if a financially stable, but socially flawed, middle aged woman from the South, were to date a moderately financially stable, but socially accepted, young man from Singapore? What are your thoughts on that?
No.
Someone once told me that blocking people to curate your feed was a valid use case and I’ve never looked back. I don’t care too much about an echo chamber if I am removing people who are absolutely unhinged.
For the most part…no, I don’t. I’m still of the mindset that there’s not enough people posting across communities, so blocking accounts is an absolutely last resort for me personally.
That said, there is one account that I know of that I question if it’s really a person or a bot. I won’t say who. However, they post multiple times an hour across a lot of communities. (I even went to their profile once to see when there would be a sizable break/gap for when they should be sleeping and didn’t find a gap within a 24 hour window!) I actually removed myself from one community because the posting there became way too frequent. Elsewhere that same account posts relevant content, so that was a better balance for me.
TL;DR - Usually no, so long as they’re posting what I consider acceptable/decent quality content. I’m more likely to remove myself from one community than block an account to tone down the level of posts in my subscribed feed.
I definitely understand finding it annoying though.
Also, welcome to Lemmy!
The other day I read a comment that says you can automatically filter out users wo post with high frequency. Is that true, does anyone know how? I’ve only looked at the settings through Boost.
I would also like to know how to do that. As far as I can tell that is not currently possible on any of the Threadiverse platforms.
