These are spam. Please keep reporting these, we ban the users from the site and remove the content.
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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I’ve been reporting them. It seems that a lot of the posts contain affiliate links, so it’s someone trying to make money from that - not because they wrote the books that are getting posted.
Some have been banned, but they keep coming back. Some may be bots, but not all - I saw at least one come back with a hateful response when called out.
I haven't been reporting since it's not clear that it's a violation of any rules. I guess that's what I'm hoping to clarify with this post.
The ones I’ve been reporting have all been lemm.ee users and it is a violation of the lemm.ee rules to use your account to advertise on lemm.ee or any other instance. I don’t know how other instances are handling it.
I actually don’t know who gets the reports I’ve been submitting, either, so I’m not sure if it’s doing anything.
Oh, and I also suspect the user(s?) doing this is using other accounts to upvote the posts.
Yeah, that's what I was figuring as well. This is one downside to not allowing downvotes... they would get buried pretty quickly if we could downvote them.
Oh that’s funny, I forgot beehaw didn’t have downvotes. I actually can downvote and see the downvotes, but maybe those are just going off into the ether.