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What is currently in the works to help admins locate spammers and problematic users on their instance?
Right now I believe it relies heavily on users reporting and admins looking through a users history however I think that is really inefficient.
Are there any better visualization tools that could be made to aid admins?
Registration applications, and user reports are the best way to handle trolls. The first stops 90% of them, the second means we can ban and remove all their spam at the click of a button.
I don't see how you could prematurely know about spammers or trolls until someone reports them. We don't plan on adding any text-analyzing AI or anything like that into lemmy's codebase.
I don't think you can. My suggestion was more focused on how admins make decisions after a report. Right now they have to do a manual scan of the person's comment history and that is the part I find inefficient. If it was possible to just show extra high level information on the user it might make it easier for the admin to make a decision.
Yeah using AI to try and analyze comments would be overkill and probably prone to manipulation anyways.
Edit: I'm sorta talking more specifically towards banning a user or seeing if what a user is doing is a repeated pattern.
I don't think there's a way you could avoid going into their history. I do that as an admin to verify that the account in question is indeed repeatedly breaking rules. I'm open to suggestions tho.