u/pixiefarm

Cool new album from a great "western" artist from Australia- link goes to a review

Beckylynn does semi-autobiographical "wig country" about her wild upbringing

[modding on mobile web and desktop]

I just got added to moderate a queer sub that is primarily about something else (rural life) but allows occasional selfies as long as they're not porn.

We are getting inundated by selfie posts that are obviously bot spam of various kinds.

We're trying to figure out what anti-bot tools to use and how to write some rules to reduce issues from legitimate posters.

The sexy selfie spam falls into some categories:

-scammers who are trying to get their admirers into conversations that sound like they're meant to go to DM's, probably for scamming reasons

-posters/bots who are hit and run- they post content probably stolen from elsewhere and they do not engage in the comments so its probably karma farming primarily.

Short of 100% banning selfies (which account for most of the spam we get), what tools or rules would help without those bots or tools interfering with each other on the back end?

the sub is really small.

Does repostsleuthbot work well these days? Does it work when installed alongside another bot that operates off a blacklist of karma farming bot accounts or whatever? Can you only install one of these things at a time?

I already know about karma and account age minimums but I"m not up on the ins and outs of how bots interact with automod rules around karma and account age.

-is there a bot that also does a reverse image search to catch spammers who are stealing images from instagram or elsewhere on the internet rather than just reposting from within reddit?

We have some serious farmers here but also plenty of us who just live rurally while doing something else for a living.

Anyone just getting started on gardening because of the economic situation? What are you growing? What projects are you up to with your gardening or farming?

For months now, submitting a link via the 'link' option instead to the 'text' option on desktop has been broken. The ENTIRE point of that option is so that the title auto-populates and you don't have to go back and forth copy pasting stuff.

For a while it affected Youtube links specifically where the only part of the title that populates is the word "YouTube-" without the title of the video getting carried over to Reddit.

Recently it has started affecting other sources such as blogs or other websites. I can't get a title to come across at all now from some websites I commonly crosspost from. Examples in comments below:

This all affects user engagement because if they have to suddenly do extra work they just give up.

Happy Wednesday! Western Wednesday, this Wednesday and every Wednesday!

Western swing, Out West, Wild West, songs about Texas, artists from out West, cowboys, even the sounds of spaghetti western... sometimes we'll post Canadian western artists, sometimes Native American country artists from the western states (that's a whole subgenre of country music by the way), cowboy poetry, Red Dirt artists, and much more

Other weekly themes on this sub:

Blue Monday, every monday: bluegrass, country blues, and blue in general. A little rockabilly.

Honky Tonk Saturday: what it says on the tin, honky tonk country music and a little Bakersfield Sound.

Click on the flair (the colored tags above some posts) to see past posts with the same themes.

Not sure who the bandmates are here but there's a fucking FANTASTIC use of the Bass VI in this clip of cosmic country.

If you don't already know this amazing singer songwriter, go check out some of her past recordings. This is a little bluegrass/Americana but she does a bunch of different traditional country sounds.