baptnz, 3 months ago

@dave_heumann @tea I guess tea is a bot that just boosts everything immediately, including today's spam wave unfortunately

babelcarp, 3 months ago

@baptnz Yes, it’s a bot. Benign till nasty people learn to abuse it.

@dave_heumann @tea

babelcarp, 3 months ago

@baptnz What might help stop these spammers (assuming you’re on a Mastodon instance) is to go to the profile of the original poster and from the menu hit Block and then Block and Report, filling out the form which will only take a minute.

@dave_heumann @tea

baptnz, 3 months ago

@babelcarp @dave_heumann @tea Indeed, I blocked and reported a few and the vis.social admins have now limited that instance

Duke64, 3 months ago

@baptnz @babelcarp @dave_heumann @tea

Thank you for doing this. It was annoying. :blobglare:

puerh, 3 months ago

@dave_heumann @tea all the guppe groups boost anything that tags them, it isn't like the boost had intention behind it.

mrcompletely, 3 months ago

@dave_heumann @tea they look very hacked

dave_heumann, 3 months ago

@mrcompletely @tea yeah I think it must be that