Hello all - as you may have noticed, we've got an aggressive new crop of repost bots hitting the Imaginary Network.

Reddit has several native tools to help prevent spam from going live. There is also some automod code that can help. Please let me know if you need help setting any of this up at your sub.

Examples:

Safety Filters (new reddit) >

• Ban evasion tool

• Crowd control

• Reputation filter

AutoMod stuff (you can change the numbers to fit your need):

Reports content from <11 day old accounts:

# Troll Control, reports content from <11 day old accounts
    type: submission
    author:
        account_age: "< 11 days" 
    action: filter
    action_reason: Potential SPAM or alt account, less than 11 days old. Please investigate before approving.

Reports content from -10 comment karma accounts:

# Troll Control, reports content from -10 comment karma accounts
    author:
        comment_karma: "< -10"
    action: filter
    action_reason: Potential troll account, negative comment karma. Please investigate before approving.

Report threshold removal:

# Automatically remove anything that gets 6+ reports and sends a modmail
    reports: 6
    action: remove
    modmail: The above item was automatically removed due to receiving 6+ reports. Please verify that this action was correct.

r/ImaginaryVampires has reopened. It got banned for having no mods, so I put in a request and was approved.

Come and post some blood-suckers, y’all!

Hey All, bet you haven't heard of me in a while (if you still remember me). I am looking to clean up some subreddits before I leave them as I have been inactively moderating subreddits for over a decade. /r/ImaginaryAnimals needs a mod or 2 to keep it up and running as all of the mods there are currently inactive. Message me or comment here if that's something you would be interested in.

Any INE mods notice this? My posts, which are sourced from real artists have been receiving comments labelling it as AI generated content despite my source having proof that the art was drawn by a human being. Upon checking these profiles, they barely have contributions to ant INE subreddit.

It seems like our beloved communities are being raided/ brigaded by non members.

Hello everyone, I’m currently the creator of the project Somma Akaviria, a series of texts about the mysterious lands of Akavir, the culture, the tradition, the people and the myths.

A chronology is on the way, we have a map for Akavir, and texts abound for Tsaesci, Ka Po’Tun, Kamal and Tang Mo.

However, we severely lack illustrations and someone who can perform drawings (I’m a little drawer myself, but my work is not astonishing).

This is why we are in the need of someone to help in our project, to finish it and release all the texts-illustrations ; we don’t want to use AI because we consider this is non ethical for us and our project.

The style of the illustrations are mostly Asians designs and architecture, and also for landscape.

This project is purely benevolent by the way, we all doing it because we love the TES universe, and creating stories too.

But if your not an illustrator, and want to join the project anyway, we will welcome you with open arms !

Thanks a lot for your responses, if you are interested DM me for the Discord link.

We have a mod request at r/WarshipPorn to post ship drawings of a commercial nature…not just stand alone images. While the drawings are detailed, we typically discourage commercial advertising. Is it more appropriate for me to steer the submitter to r/ImaginaryWarships as an alternative…an [OP] drawing with a website source link in comments?

Thx, Kap

Example of drawing and website:

https://spje.art/featured/hms-victory-ship-plans-lord-nelson-ship-sd-sp-je-art.html

Imaginary Glacers last post was 3 years ago and the #1 mod hasn't had an activity in 5 years while #2's last activity was a comment 3 months ago after 3 years of inactivity.

I made a Reddit request to moderate it and activate the sub again. Leads for others will be helpful.

Thank you.

I know a lot of you spread your love and effort across many Imaginary subs, but i'm curious if there is one in particular you are the most devoted to?

So many years ago on one of the imaginary network subs, which one I couldn't say, there was a post of a giant robot standing guard over a field, and from the treeline we are just behind a boy in overalls on a rusty car gazing out at the silent guardian

I feel like it was one of the bigger subs too because I also vaguely remember someone writing a short story to go along with it, just a small bit of lore about our silent watchful protectors

Edit:Oh holy shit ofc I happen to find it still in the top 100 of a sub I could've sworn I've searched before

https://i.redd.it/ashlhxcz5mj11.jpg

New accounts are continually posting AI-generated animal pics?! The titles feel AI generated also.

Mods u/Belledame-sans-Serif, u/chalkchick0, and u/Crowe410, any ideas?!

I’ve been seeing (and banning) karma-farming repost bots, but nothing like this!

Hello. u/East_Professional385 here, moderator of r/ImaginaryTamriel , r/ImaginaryCarnage , r/ImaginaryClerics , and r/ImaginaryBooks,

I'm looking for INE subs that needs help with content moderation or have inactive mods. If you got leads, please comment or message me. My usual time for moderation is 1-4 AM and 7-10 PM whenever I log off from work.

Thank you for your responses and leads.

r/ImaginaryAnthro turned restricted after mod inactivity. I applied to be the new mod so the subreddit wouldn't be lost. I've been approved, and have returned it back to public.

Please come post reasonably tasteful anthropomorphic artwork!

So currently all kinds of rogues are allowed over at /r/ImaginaryAssassins, and I will be the first to admit that there is some overlap. But I think there is also enough distinction that someone should take control of /r/imaginaryrogues since it has been abandoned for just over a year, the last submission being august 15th of last year.

So, while assassins can use rogueish tactics and rogues can act as assassins, I do also think that there is enough of a difference at times to promote /r/imaginaryrogues as its own separate thing. Posts such as this one that spurred this thought in me do not in my honest opinion belong on /r/ImaginaryAssassins, but people also can't use /r/imaginaryrogues because it's submissions are restricted due to no active moderators.

If I wasn't busy with university or lacking in mental health and energy, I'd take over rogues myself... I do have minor experience with moderating some subs in the past, but have no wishes to be the sole moderator or even much of a moderator at all really. I am willing to help get rogues off the ground if needed, but I'd rather not be a mod, at least for long if at all possible.

I was wondering why I got so many "approved user" requests today. :O

A bunch of subs just got this modmail from admin:

Due to an incident that took place at about 9:00 UTC, your community was mistakenly set to restricted. We are taking immediate steps to revert this. In the meantime, your mod team can also unrestrict the community by visiting your Community Settings and updating the community type.

With some INE subreddit needing mods due to either lack of actives mod or having more active posts over, I am volunteering to moderate INE subreddits that need additional manpower.

Short Background:

Mod Experience: r/ImaginaryTamriel . r/ImaginaryCarnage , r/ImaginaryClerics , r/ImaginaryBooks

Time available: 9AM-10AM and 4PM-5PM GMT+8) (these are the usual times I'm free on weekdays and I can add more on weekends unless work and family needs me)

What can I offer: Cleaning modmail, post and comment moderation, active engagement of subreddit

If there is an open slot, you can comment below.

Thank you.

May we promote more art and artists for such is the beauty of the human masterpiece.

Whether you're a veteran mod in other communities, or you have no mod experience whatsoever and only appreciate the art throughout different communities, we simply need more MODs.

Every NSFW post is being automatically removed for approval, post are being automatically removed for approval if you're new to a specific community, and sometimes post are just being automatically removed for no reason whatsoever for approval.

Eventually, these post will be approved but the longer they're in queue, the more it effects the upvote ratio. If a particular community has multiple contributors per day, your post is essentially dead in the water.

If you are considering being a mod, even just part time for experience, comment below.

To my fellow mods: Please consider adopting one additional mod for communities who only have one mod regardless of the size of the community.

As the name suggests, it would be dedicated to (comtemporary) artwork depicting people from Tudor-era England, including more fantastical or fictionalized portrayals.

I posted in one my of subs as normal, but I received an "Empty response from endpoint" when I attempted to comment the source.

All my other communities appear to be working fine, except the one.

An AI generated image is still up more than 12 hours despite AI generated images banned in the INE.

Post link: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryPropaganda/s/vfgDtuG04o

r/ImaginaryTrains became restricted after too long a period of mod inactivity. I applied to be the new mod so the subreddit would not be lost. I was approved, and I have made it public once again.

Please come and post art of trains, locomotives, cable cars, trolleys, trams, etc!

Good morning! I volunteered last year to adopt these subreddits, but I'm not able to put in the proper time to tend to these communities. I have other passion projects on Reddit, and I realized that these other communities have been slightly neglected as I spent hour(s) searching for content for the Imaginary Network.

The list:

r/ImaginaryArtifacts

r/ImaginaryBooks

r/ImaginaryChild

r/ImaginaryClerics

r/ImaginaryFairyTales

r/ImaginaryFogscapes

r/ImaginaryGraveyards

r/ImaginaryStillLife

r/ImaginaryWalls

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I'm still going to be around posting periodically, and I'm keeping r/ImaginaryWinterscapes, but the other communities deserve a dedicated contributor. Please comment below or message me directly if you are interested. HOWEVER, I will only appoint users who already contributes to the Imaginary Network.

Noticing multiple repost bots today, reposting posts with high numbers of upvotes. Please report and ban them. I know they're bots because they are reposting personal, user-specific posts and old posts that were time-relevant only at the time the original was posted.

Accounts are also brand-new.

Here's Some : u/Pale-Forever6530, u/Public_Bit_1805, u/Odd_Sweet_2678/

edits- adding usernames as I find them: u/ChoiceGoose3069, u/PhotographOne4113, u/Sea_Plenty_8761, u/UsualYak317, u/PowerfulConclusion97, u/Sad-Eye9545, u/Putrid-Ad6196, u/Usual_Respond_7710, u/New_Chemistry_9747, u/Chemical_Reaction140, u/Ok-Pay-7736, u/Pure_Alternative_846

Some of my posts has been spammed with similar comments from different accounts with non credible Reddit history.

Here' s a sample (hope this won't get removed because it's a link from another sub): https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryCityscapes/s/HqXucENkV4

Have you all noticed the views at most INE subs are way down from this time last year? I suppose it has to do with reddit killing third party apps, and maybe some change to the "hot" and "rising" algorithm. It's like subreddit growth has been kicked back 3 or 4 years, and all the ground gained since then is lost. Bummer.

I also suspect that viewing images in the reddit app is painful? I dunno.

Somewhat related - I am looking to reduce my sub count by some and will start adopting out some of my more redundant subs. /r/ImaginaryCarnage is looking for a new top mod here!

r/ImaginaryBikers got restricted after it’s mod, u/GoodLibrarian, inexplicably fell silent.

So I applied to be the new mod and just got approved. I have reopened the sub- please consider contributing!

UPDATE: I can access it now (September 23, 2023)

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I've been using it as my ArtStation alternative since ArtStation is spammed with AI generated images and Cara bans it. I can't access it now. Not sure if its my ISP since I've used it on 3 different devices in different ISPs/locations. Thanks for the responses.