Post by @motiveunknown • Hey
This is my issue with engagement on here. The quality is just low, sorry. Pretty sure these are bots, which is a shame. Lens deserves better quality traffi
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- And so it continues....
- I think these notifications from bots can be mitigated in similar way as we have mitigated comments from bots or that are low quality by scoring and hiding them behind the comment ranking. I think this is the way to mangage the balance between accees and focusing on showing what is relevant for the user
- The proof that there are tons of bots is this screenshot. I posted s link to my nft collection and there are bots posting exactly the same. Which is really bad.
- read somewhere lately no excuse for bots anymore to post low quality comments. Bots should do better.
It is a great pity that there is so much noise on the platform at the moment.
- Darren I agree with you 100%. I raised the same issue previously and as Stani already mentioned Lens team has been working on this issue. Quality of the contents is the lifeline of web3 socialfi like lens. I suggest every lens user stay alert on these bots accounts and report them to lens through proper channel if you have suspicion.
- Shall I screenshot my inbox? 😂😂😟😟
- I have the same exact problem. It is really a shame that this is the typical experience here.
- There is a space for self censorship in some cases.
For example, if some account are posting one same thing over and over, like a bot, original post maker can alert the Lens oracle/network and block them from writing such things on their account.
This is just an idea on how can we manage decentralised social media.
Another idea is to allow users to toggle on or off whether others can post links in the comments or not.
We can't really censor the whole platform altogether. Collaborative collective efforts are needed.
- Lens deserves better quality traffic and engagement than this.
- Agree, so hard to stop
How are there so many bots though? It’s fairly difficult to get a lens handle atm
- Has the Tittwer or the Facebook solved the bot problems?No! Why you guys believe that lens can solve it.
- Bots are everywhere. But the number of bots in Lens is much less than Twitter.
- Hmm. True talk. I posted a riddle in here hoping for some interesting answers. What did I get? A bunch of "nice" and likes. No one answered the damn riddle. 😩😩😩
- Terribly right dude
- agreed, also the lenster.xyz site feels very slow overall.
- I feel you. But I think that is just a side effect / sickness of a very young Plattform that still has to mature…
- you just need to get used to it budy, this happens a lot in the world, not just lens or crypto only
- most are just commenting to level up their profile. Lets see if lens actually reward these type of behavour.
- If **Lens** gets a little better, and there will be a lot of people, little functionality 🙁
- agree, the Lens team is working hard on that issue it seems. imo paying for posts was a feature and not a bug tho - bots and farmers would be reduced by 90% if they had to pay
what I would do is reduce the subsidy to post from 100% to 95% - keep it low enough for everyone to post, but costly enough for those farmers to refrain from it. Paying a fraction of a cent would already get rid of a big chunk of the bots & farmers
we’re developing a tool (signless.xyz) that would allow ppl to use the app without signing and filling up a gas tank so they don’t have to pay for every tx, do you think that would be something to help solve this issue?
- Lens fam! Nice!
- It's not that they're bots, they're drop hunters. You have to keep active somehow and show that you actively participate in the development of the project))))
- Seems like the link is kind of broken. Anyway still playing with lens but that collect feature is quite cool
- nice.
lmao jk you're 100% right and it's a difficult issue to solve. Permissioned access, which is what other protocols are doing, can mitigate the bot problems successfully but then how do you onboard large numbers of people? Eventually you're going to run into similar issues.
- bots are part of this community😅
- some human pretending to be bots😆
- it's difficult. the guy of the second comment of your screenshot is most certainly not a bot. check his Twitter profile. however, he's not providing any value here. apart from airdrop hunting, it's probably a language problem. at least, that's what I think.
I've also checked the 3rd and 5th profiles from the screenshot. could be bots but it could be simple airdrop hunting as well. the 3rd commenter is even trying to post proper English posts like the most recent one. however that one is copied from somewhere else (https://www.oktranslation.com/news/twininfo7538.html).
we experience the problems of an open protocol. moderation, censorship,... should happen on the frontends, not on the protocol level. however if one frontend downgrades certain posts or even users, they can still show in your feed or comments if people user a different frontend...
- indeed, maybe we should ask kols so they can bring people in lens
- Less bots. More Burts
- Yeah bots is everywhere
- Congrats lens fren
- Bots Humans, same difference
- As soon as I post something, my post is like by many in split seconds. If this is not bot what is 🙂
- Pleased don't discourage my 🤖 frens to keep grinding hard 😅. JK, you are oc completely right. Hopefully soon some mechanisms will be implemented to filter out those bots.
- Bots everywhere
- ARB fomo leads to LENS fomo
- "If you want to create a good Lens platform, you still need advanced filtering to understand all the robots."
- Too many bots lol
- i also think so,the bot is a question
- Engagement is growing
- LOL (not bots, really)
- Testing Lens
- just wondering. what are the response you're expecting. bots have different level of IQ🤪
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thanks for sharing.
I was looking for the plain number how often "$LENS" appeared in posts so far (and comments step 2) - https://lenster.xyz/harunguyen
But the result of the query is not what I've expected ... (#50). And the result set doesn't show e.g. the post mentioned above. Do you have an idea what might be the issue?
SELECT
post_id
, profile_id
, content
FROM lens-public-data.polygon.public_profile_post pp
WHERE
UPPER(content) LIKE '%$LENS%'
ORDER BY block_timestamp DESC
- Bots always find their way, and that's actually a problem
- And also the comments like ggehehjs, fjsksksh. This bots are just irritating 😖
- Not a bot 🙋
- its easy to make conclusions isnt it
this guy is bot this guy is not bot
the question is why bother anyway, you want to press like so press like, you want to reply a comment, do it, you want to ignore comments from "bots", just do it
its simple as that
- For social networking platforms, high-quality content is the key to growth and user retention, so high-quality content interaction should be prioritized, rather than simply sorted by time. On the notification, it is also necessary to judge whether to push according to the quality rating.
- Not a bot here! Great thread!