Hello Lemmings!

I am thinking of making a community moderation bot for Lemmy. This new bot will have faster response times with the help of Lemmy webhooks, an amazing plugin for Lemmy instances by @rikudou@lemmings.world to add webhook support. With this, there is no need to frequently call the API at a fixed interval to fetch new data. Any new data will be sent via the webhook directly to the bot backend. This allows for actions within seconds, thus making it an effective auto moderation tool.

I have a few features I thought of doing:

  • Welcome messages
  • Auto commenting on new posts
  • Scheduled posts
  • Punish content authors or take action on Auto report content via word blacklist/regex
  • Ban members of communities by their usernames via word blacklist or regex
  • Auto community lockdown during spam

What other features do you think are possible? Please let me know. Any questions are also welcome.

Community requested features:

  • Strike system

Strikes are added to a certain member of the community and the member will be temporarily banned within a time period if their strike count reaches a certain threshold

  • Post creation restriction by account age

If an account’s age is lower than X, remove the post.

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    3 months ago

    Banning members on their username. Locking down an entire community because of a small group of people spamming. Deleting posts because an account isn’t old enough?

    Why not throw in the system to have to approve posts before they get published? Really make the community welcoming.

    It was said in another comment above that this tool is easily abused by “overzealous mods”, but I believe the real problem are overzealous programmers.

    Reddit failed for reasons, and I believe automod was one of them. But you’ll do you, and nothing I say can change that.

    • asudox@programming.devOP
      22·
      3 months ago

      Banning members on their username.

      I am merely trying to give community mods options. This feature and the other features are optional. Direct your complaints to the community owners if they use some regex that matches usernames that you think shouldn’t be banned.

      Locking down an entire community because of a small group of people spamming.

      The bot just locks it down to stop the spam, otherwise everyone’s feed will just be filled with spam. I haven’t seen such a spam yet, but that does not mean there won’t be any in the future. Just trying to be prepared for it.

      Deleting posts because an account isn’t old enough?

      Again, I am just giving the mods options. If they enable the feature and use it, direct your complaints to them.

      Why not throw in the system to have to approve posts before they get published? Really make the community welcoming.

      That is possible with post locking and with a dashboard. I’ll look into it.

      It was said in another comment above that this tool is easily abused by “overzealous mods”, but I believe the real problem are overzealous programmers.

      Again, I’m only giving them options.

      Every tool can be used both in good and bad purposes. Why is it that it is the fault of the tool or its creator?