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?
nah, patnou is ok if a little lost
No, not consciously. However, I do block accounts that reply to me in a shitty or condescending way. Life’s too short to deal with these people and I’ll never meet them in real life. I’ve wasted far too much time engaging with arseholes over on Reddit, but since I’ve moved here I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the civility of most discourse. So that’s why I block anyone wrecking my experience.
Only a few obvious bots because they were filling up my feed. I like seeing posts from users, especially when it comes to news.
i wonder how many people have blocked me so far…
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It just wouldn’t be the same without you here.
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
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.
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.
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’
lel yeah good point.
No, mainly because who else is really posting?
I have six nicoles in my block list 😄
thats amateur hour compared to my cm0002 blocks. got to be at least a dozen.
Ah, Nicole. Classic
I think I blocked a couple of accounts years ago that were just reposting ancient memes from reddit in bot-like numbers. But it seems like the majority of content here falls under that category, so blocking seems futile. Can’t even use downvoting to correct the issue because our votes aren’t private/anonymous here and I don’t need a large account seeing that I downvote their content every time I come across it. It would have to feel personal at that point 😆
I don’t mind big accounts in principle, I just don’t want to see memes from 2018 being reposted every day with the same titles, and for there to be no other content from those accounts.
Can’t even use downvoting to correct the issue because our votes aren’t private/anonymous here and I don’t need a large account seeing that I downvote their content every time I come across it. It would have to feel personal at that point
Downvote away, who cares if some massive account sees you don’t like their content? Also, who spends that much time checking who does(n’t) like what you post?
Maybe I’m weird, but I don’t care past a basic up/down count. And even then, I’ve seen some of the shit that gets upvotes in certain comms, I’m not concerned with going against the hive mind on certain topics.
I have a few accounts blocked but I mostly block communities.
The only account I’ve had to block so far is LadyButterfly. I’m usually against blocking people but I just couldn’t take it anymore.
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?
If it hits my feed regularly and has no value or makes me cringe, hell yeah. We don’t have an algorithm here to help you sort out the content, your subs and blocks do all the lifting.
Someone arguing in bad faith? Block.
Someone reposting the same drivel day after day? Block.
Don’t care for the content of a community? block.
No need to fight, no need to complain, I have ~150 blocks, you’re doing them and youself a favor.
No
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.
