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[Mod Post] Who added the piped bot to this community? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Context here: https://lemmy.world/comment/1641350

Someone messaged this bot and told it to add PS5 to its community list. If it was someone here, please DM me or fess up here and let me know. I won't ban or take action on anyone, but I would have appreciated being approached about this first. I'm not even that mad tbh as I think I the bot is interesting, but I need to vet these things before they are added to the community.

Furthermore, this bot violates lemmy.world rules since the maintainer account is not listed in the bot bio, and because it was added without moderator permission.

Anyway, please reach out if it was you so we can clear the air and talk about it. DM me if you want to keep it private.

In case no one here added it, I'll be messaging people on the instance where this is hosted to track down the maintainer. I don't like that there doesn't seem to be a way to remove the bot from the community once it has been added without banning it.

Edit:

After investigating this further I have determined that this bot auto adds itself to all federated communities with feddit.works that at least one feddit.works user is subscribed to. Lo and behold, feddit.works has 1 subscriber to PS5. So it looks like during the migration, 1 person over there saw us and subscribed, which then triggered the bot to auto add itself. So no one appears to be at fault.

I'll still leave this post up for a little bit so people here can see a new rule I'm going to add to the sidebar:

New Rule: If you wish to add or recommend a bot for the betterment of the PS5 community it must be endorsed by the Mods prior to implementation and must follow instance-wide rules.

I'm the case of the piped bot, I will leave it unbanned for now, and attempt to have the maintainer edit the bot to follow instance wide rules, as well as an unsubscribe feature. I will discuss this issue with @[email protected] and we will make a determination together.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maintainer seems to be kavin [at] feddit.rocks

https://feddit.rocks/post/3214

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you! For transparency this is the message I just sent them:

Hi Kavin, I'm the lead mod over on [email protected]. Your piped link bot was added to my community without my permission. I see in the code that it gets auto added to communities federated with feddit.rocks once one subscriber joins said community. I wanted to let you know that your bot violates recently implemented lemmy.world rules regarding bots. The 2 violations it makes are:

  1. The maintainer account is not listed in the bot bio (that would be your contact info in the bot bio)
  2. You need to receive permission from mods prior to posting in their communities.

Personally I can see value in your bot, but you are risking having it banned from the entire lemmy.world instance due to these violations. Furthermore, on a personal note, I have issue with the lack of an unsubscribe feature in the bot. It can be messaged a community name to be added, but I do not see a way to unsubscribe a community from the bot. If there is a way to unsubscribe, please let me know and update your GitHub with how to unsubscribe communities.

Please respond back and implement the above changes. I will allow your bot to stay in my community for the time being, but if the above changes are not implemented in a timely manner or I do not hear back from you, I will be forced to ban the bot outright.

I will discuss the value proposition of your bot with my mod team and community and make a determination as to whether we wish to keep it in our community or not.

Thanks for your understanding!