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GrimWillow wrote

I banned u/gal from f/news and it came back as u/MRO, just wanted to let you know so that you're familiar with the new face of the same bot. It seems to really like f/politics and f/news. At least "MRO" stands out as a username more. Also, I'm slowly looking into creating a bot for auto-deleting posts that meet criteria like usernames or something. It seems making a bot would be easier than trying to create the shadowban feature in postmill, but I've already got a lot on my plate, so it might be a while before that even comes to fruition.

Otherwise love y'all. The content and discussions here have been enjoyable.

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rot wrote

Ban bots sound problematic as hell.

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GrimWillow wrote

Are you saying that it seems problematic to have bots with the power of banning?

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rot wrote

Yes. It could mass ban accounts without community feedback like we have with f/trolldissection. bots are prone to bugs.

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GrimWillow wrote

It wouldn't be banning power, just an auto-delete. I don't think we need community feedback to autodelete posts from bots. They should be banned, but we can't ban them, so it would delete the posts that they make based on their username; and the username would be chosen by an admin. It has the same potential to be abused as any mechanism to ban someone within Postmill's code, but it seems simpler to me to write a bot than attempt to write a shadow-banning mechanism into Postmill.

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GrimWillow wrote (edited )

I'm only talking about bots on Raddle, and the bot would only be controlled by an admin, so it would only assist an admin and mods in deleting posts from these weird lolbertarian bots that don't mind if you delete their posts, but they auto-register a new account when they get banned.

If you're interested in raddle's conversation about bots, there is a forum about them here.

or any other fiftysomething and older allies show up with bumbling good intentions and white guilt, lol.

Someone with your experience and wisdom are definitely welcome here. Are you suggesting that you're a person with bumbling good intentions and white guilt, or you mean that you'd be happy to confront people like that? Because I don't think white people should have "white guilt". That's something that many on the right claim that white "leftists" are stricken by, but it's only a thing for white liberals, not white Anarchists. But I think maybe you don't mean yourself.

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