So I’ve noticed this too a lot lately.

There’s still a lot of hit and run accounts and it’s wild that an account can be created, dump articles, delete itself, and the posts remain up.

Examples:

u/Valorian

u/Vadian

Then there’s accounts that are still up, but are posting at an insane rate

u/Krewl 21 posts on a 3 hour old account

u/nuemenon with 831 posts in 11 days, that’s 20 posts per minute!

Why are accounts like these that are clearly bot accounts, with some bit of human interaction possibly, allowed to remain up? Just for the sake of content and interaction? Seems like a good way to allow propaganda bots to run free.

Most of these accounts seem to be targeted at !worldnews@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world and primarily on the lemmyworld instance, at least in the very little time I’ve looked at this. Might just be that lemmyworld is one of the largest instances, but still.

I know it’s probably hard to tackle on the mod side, but it does feel like there should be limits on how much an account can flood an instance with content or if an account is deleted, or banned, shortly after posting their content should come down as well. I thought bot tags were a thing, and maybe they are, which might help some, but doesn’t stop the issue.

Edit:

Just after posting this and here’s a 1 hour account with 11 posts already.

u/Vany