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 on~~ Auto 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.

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[–] msmc101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

please no welcome messages, they're like the most obnoxious thing Reddit ever had (well ok maybe not the most), they just clog your inbox.

[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll consider it. Thanks for your comment.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't see a problem with having the feature as an option. It only becomes a problem if it is misused by moderators.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

The problem with something like this is that people start to dislike it more with experience. People have to be less experienced to become more experienced, and so it's a certainty that there will be a lot of moderators that misuse it.

I also don't mean to sound like a gnome dev, but what is actually the use case for this?

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I agree that welcome messages are often just clutter, but I don't think that this means the feature should not be included. For some communities, a welcome message is appropriate. Moderators don't need to use every feature for a given community.