Why doesn't the site ban the obvious spam and bot accounts on here?

submitted by Mcheetah from self.SaidIt

I am all for free speech and allowing real people to express themselves on here (provided they aren't sending death threats, harassment, doxxing, and malicious trolling and whatnot.) But why aren't the obvious spam bots not just banned? I don't think that would go against the intention of the site or breaking the code of being a free speech platform. We all know what the bots look like and how they post the same garbage over and over again. Why aren't they just banned immediately?

I know the site owner, Magnora, probably has a real life outside of this and all, but who would be in control of site-wide bans of obvious spam bots? Keep in mind, I don't think this should apply to human spammers; even if they are spamming. But specifically the bots who are obvious bots and not real contributors to the site.

And like another user said, new accounts should be limited to how much they can post in a single day. Like maybe only ten comment posts and one new thread post a day or something. Then after a week on here, they get twenty comment posts and two new thread posts a day. Then after two weeks, they get full access to unlimited posting.

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[–]RedditButt 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I saw a bunch get removed from earlier. Whenever I see obvious spam I just report it and hopefully makes it easier on whoever is trying to get a handle on it. I'm sure they're not watching 24/7 obsessively like the typical reddit mod.

[–]Mcheetah[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was made moderator of two accounts, s/Saidit and s/AskSaidIt, and I remove a lot of spam posts and try to block the bot accounts (because they'll just keep coming back daily; I've seen it happen) but I can't remove them from the site entirely. I've never blocked a human account on here, and unless someone is hardcore trolling me in my own sub, I don't intend to.

[–]Hematomato 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They are banned. They come back under new names. We don't have a sophisticated system for pre-emptively blocking them.

And like another user said, new accounts should be limited to how much they can post in a single day.

Maybe that would be a net positive, but it would have a chilling effect on actual new people. When you show up to a forum for the first time and post a few things and then it says "no more," you tend to kinda move on and forget about that forum.

[–]newguy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This

[–]RankAssPalace 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Bone conduction

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I only can moderate s/News I have no power over the other subs. If you see Spam, report it to the moderators.

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When you ban them they make different names and then you have to find them again.

This is why Phooey quit and Vulptex was saying that but he didn't get it.

[–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I try to ban anyone who's spamming ads in the forums I moderate, but that info doesn't get cross-referenced to the other forums. It would be useful if it were.

I offered quite a while back to pay for someone to program some better site-wide moderation tools, but it seems Mag7 doesn't trust giving anyone that level of access to the site lest it get hijacked like Reddit. And since D3rr is gone, we don't have anyone to turn to on the technical front.