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Feature requests for a lemmy moderation bot (self.programming)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by AsudoxDev to c/programming
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18411894

Hello Lemmings!

I am thinking of making a community moderation bot for Lemmy. This new bot will have faster response times with the help of Lemmy webhooks, an amazing plugin for Lemmy instances by @[email protected] to add webhook support. With this, there is no need to frequently call the API at a fixed interval to fetch new data. Any new data will be sent via the webhook directly to the bot backend. This allows for actions within seconds, thus making it an effective auto moderation tool.

I have a few features I thought of doing:

  • Welcome messages
  • Auto commenting on new posts
  • Scheduled posts
  • Punish content authors or take action on content via word blacklist/regex
  • Ban members of communities by their usernames/bios via word blacklist or regex
  • Auto community lockdown during spam

What other features do you think are possible? Please let me know. Any questions are also welcome.

Community requested features:

  • Strike system

Strikes are added to a certain member of the community and the member will be temporarily banned within a time period if their strike count reaches a certain threshold

  • Post creation restriction by account age

If an account's age is lower than X, remove the post.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are there existing open-source Reddit moderation bots that could be ported that have similar functionality already? That might be less work.

[โ€“] AsudoxDev 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There are no Rust ones afaik. My bot will be written in Rust. And even if there were any, I still wouldn't. Lemmy does not quite work the same as Reddit