I have a bot account that automatically adds any posted youtube links in certain communities on my instance to a playlist, which can be accessed from the community sidebar. I find this pretty convenient, particularly for communities such as mealtimevideos to have a streamlined place to access all the content when you don’t want to go through the lemmy UI.

It is also doing some content moderation in some of my more curated communities to automatically remove posts below a threshold of upvotes. Because my aim for these communities is to have an archive of only “quality” content and clean up all the posts nobody liked. Only the best for lemmy.best™

But while testing some new features I’m playing around with it started spamming posts and comments, that I’m sure got interpreted as spam before I could clean them up. I’m trying to work on a good solution to safely avoiding a bot from ever making reposts.
It was also making a bunch of upvotes/downvotes over and over on the same posts when I was testing something to see how that functionality worked. Ultimately I don’t think bots should be allowed to vote, it’s super weird that they are even able to.

I thought I was pretty safe to go wild with testing on my own isolated instance, but didn’t realize that some of these things were getting federated to a bunch of other instances. My bad.

Hi it’s me, the (banned) mod of !mealtimevideos@lemmy.world.
I’ll link my comment from the other post on !support@lemmy.world.
https://lemmy.world/comment/3185203

Hi, I was the mod of /c/mealtimevideos, https://lemmy.world/u/PartyCat. This is an alt account.

The lemmy.world admins banned my account for some reason, I think because of something I was testing with a bot account on my own instance that went awry. After starting out here on lemmy.world I’ve migrated over to mostly using my own lemmy instance now that it is stable.
An unfortunate side effect of that ban is it also immediately removes any communities I had created. I can’t even transfer ownership of the community to someone else. It seems only an admin can fix it.

In the meantime, there is now a !mealtimevideos@lemmy.best over on my own instance. However, I would absolutely prefer that the original community gets reinstated, whether I am mod of it or a new one is found to replace me.