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

  • marsara9@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Maybe. 2nd idea I’ve got is that if no one is replying after say 24hrs and something like 75-80% of your posts are as such and you have at least 100 such posts, you get added to the list?

    Main concern I see about something like this is false positives and how someone real could end up getting blocked.

    I definitely want to think on this some more but it might have some legs.

    • iso@lemy.lolOPEnglish
      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.