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 @[email protected] 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.

  • solrize@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I have them blocked already, but that doesn’t stop the moderation bots screwing up and deleting good posts, whether mine or other people’s. It’s unfortuanate to not get informed when the words in someone’s post happen to be in alphabetical order though.