There’s an increase of bot (I suppose) accounts who post a single or a few comics and delete their account.

One of the issue is that they’re often divisive posts (“men bad”, “women bad”, “old bad”, “young bad”, …) like they’re trying to stir up some shit (is “9gag-isation” a word ?)

I’m not sure a simple rule to prevent new account (less than X days) from posting would suffice but I have no other idea.

How could this community deal with this phenomenon ?

PS : I’m not a mod btw, but I didn’t see any rule about discussing the moderation, and I’ve seen other comments about this

Edit: they made a “tatann_2” account to post a few comics so it’s obviously a troll

Edit 2: and now I’m getting downvotes on my posts/comments, even old ones, at least I’ve pissed off the troll

  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve seen discussion of this occurring in other communities too (can’t remember which tho, sorry), and stumbled upon a few of those posts too where post and user were gone (i’ve always got a tab with piefed open, and don’t always refresh the page when it’s been not too long, so i still see the post as active when in reality it’s been deleted already), so i can attest to this happening.

    eta: the content seems to be divisive, and it’s definitely every day, but i can’t make a good estimate of the amount of this type of post happening