I’ve gotten several of the text-in-image variant lately from accounts on SJW over the last few days.
i wonder if that girl knows her image is being spammed in a mongolian throat singing forum on the internet
Yep.
Sorry about that.
We’ve been banning them but it’s hard to determine whether a 10 day old account with no other activity will suddenly start sending PMs tomorrow.I doubt anyone would go through the effort of typing the spammed URLs from a picture… but just in case: Don’t
They’re also probably harassing whoever’s pictures those really belong to, so donpt associate the person in the pictures with the actual spammer too much…I’ve banned another one this morning, a 10 day old account that started spamming a few hours before.
Banning all lurkers doesn’t make sense and current lemmy tools are… lacking… to put it lightly.I’ve been working on and off on different ways to address this, ideally without also poring through everyone’s PMs all the time.
Lemmy PMs are NOT private, nothing not End to end encrypted is. Still, I’d rather not go through everyone’s messages to spot those.
I won’t go into too much details because they’re likely to be reading this and other threads discussing methods to get rid of them.My next step is something that needs admin access to the database, as opposed to something through the API, which makes it less convenient to setup through the bot, just a few extra steps.
FYI, we’re also currently locally removing all PMs from banned accounts, something that’s only been added to lemmy in 0.19.10, but we do have a workaround in place for that until we upgrade again.
In the meantime, reporting also works, even though I’d rather nip it in the bud a bit more.
Peace
Thank you very much, I figure I wanted to communicate with the admin team since I started seeing the calls come from inside the house, as it were.
