cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/778691

While I want to block content bots, I don’t want to block useful bots like @[email protected] @[email protected]. Because of this, I will block them one by one. I am sharing it here for community benefit. Any addition/removal is welcome.

gist for programmatic use: https://gist.github.com/ismailkarsli/0c6c7aa4f70d1905adea1b30271f16f7

  • iso@lemy.lol
    OPEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I think

    • flagged as bot
    • doesn’t responds in n hours
    • has n numbers of posts in last n hours or overall

    is sufficient to determine a user is a content aggregator bot. Bot flag is an important indicator here. Like the biggest false positive would be ban a multi-purpose bot that also has content aggregation feature.