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I'm a moderator of /r/silverbugs (same username) and I'm over this crap. Our sub is for physical silver, for people that see silver as a hobby. Since Thursday
by ryanmercer 6y ago
I'm a moderator of /r/silverbugs (same username) and I'm over this crap.
Our sub is for physical silver, for people that see silver as a hobby. Since Thursday morning I've been averaging about 4 hours of moderating a day just going through the moderation queue. I've personally banned hundreds of brand new/never before used accounts that only have post histories in subs related to this 'movement' and then come over to us to spam crap.
This morning I woke up and approved/removed posts in the queue for 39 minutes to empty it out. Went to the toilet and came back to 70 something new ones.
The sheer amount of blatant bot/disingenuous accounts spamming our sub for this 'movement' is insane. You'd think if they were going to spam the crap out of our sub with their nonsense, they'd at least buy me a cup of diet coke.
sigh I hope this ends soon.
- httpsterio 6y agoHey, do you need a hand moderating? I'm currently running a 400k sub alone by myself and I get by with some nifty automod rules.
- ryanmercer 6y agoOur problem with automod is, we already remove activity under a certain karma for manual approval to limit spam so now instead of 0-30 things a day, it's more like 2-3 thousand a day. It does seem to be shifting though, I'd say about 90% of it is people genuinely trying to participate in the sub now, it was about 1% Thursday morning. I'm hoping we're at, or nearing, the peak as a lot of these accounts that are actively participating in harmony with what the sub is about will start hitting the karma threshold and no longer need manual approval for everything. We've already onboarded another moderator to help today too, but thanks!