Lately, I’ve recognized many posts from very new accounts here, usually younger than a day. They post a couple of news articles and are never to be seen again.
I’ve checked this communitiy’s modlog and many new accounts get banned relatively quickly. Their behaviour is eerily similar, even their profile pictures have similar styles, so it seems to be the same origin.

Out of curiosity, is there some lore I missed?

More seriously, I think we users in this community maybe should be more conscious about this and stop interacting with posts from these profiles.

Dunno if my post makes any sense, it’s just something weird I noticed and wanted to say something about.

  • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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    18 hours ago

    in regards to ‘not interacting with new users’, I think that’s a bad idea. how will any community/server/instance grow if you never reply or interact with new accounts?

    I mean, they are pretty easy to spot. They are new accounts that instantly drop several news posts. That is not organic human behaviour.

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      17 hours ago

      I personally haven’t seen or experienced it, however I haven’t been actively looking though. hopefully they can implement something to mitigate the issues