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 @rikudou@lemmings.world 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 onAuto report content via word blacklist/regex- Ban members of communities by their usernames 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.
What exactly am I to do when mods use my bot maliciously? I just try to program features into the bot that might be used by the moderators. Everything is optional, if the features are used maliciously, it’s not my fault but the moderators’. What fault does the creator of knives have when they are being used to murder people instead of cutting vegetables?
I do appreciate your comment though, some misc tasks don’t necessarily need to exist such as welcome messages and auto comments on posts. Actually I’ll remove welcome messages, they are a waste of API calls. Maybe auto comment on posts as well but scheduled posts are (most likely) staying. It is a moderation bot after all. I’ll consider your compliant. Thanks.