I've noticed that many aminos choose to lock their amino being an approval process with the justification being that it is to prevent spam bots from ing.
So I'm also curious if that method is effective to stop bots and if that is the reason your guys' aminos are locked.
Also would you guys say that there's been less bots than earlier? Thank you, have a good day.
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A community should always be closed if it's on a banner. Because bots work differently, there are some that check all communities and spam open ones. Or there are people who run the bot inside the community when they get into it (below said that sometimes spam, so it's the people behind the "remote" bot).
If your community isn't on a banner, then you don't need to worry about shutting it down. Because PR costs in small aminos don't give much benefit, so target large communities. And I sincerely don't understand why some agents find it so hard to close an amino so I don't get spammed with 20 fascist chats (you may have realized which amino we're talking about).
There are still bots even in locked communities, but it is significantly less than unlocked. We recently unlocked the My Hero Academia community for a short while, and the issue was so bad that even the were like "please lock it again"
Not currently, but I have in the past. Whenever we got a large amount of bots ing and spamming, I put my community on private, then took it back to public a few weeks later.
We made our amino public but tbh the bot spam has significantly decreased
It's like only 1 or 2 a month
But I'm considering whether that's due to our weaker activity compared to other aminos
Reply to: SpaceyWacey
Interesting!! I've heard that Halo Amino has recently made their amino public to help boost its activity! It's another relatively small amino with a couple tens of thousands in its member count or so so I'm sure that like your amino it benefits more from dealing with the occasional bot while ensuring the most amount of newcomers by not adding a barrier behind an approval process
Reply to: Dachshund
Yeye exactly!
We get no bots by having it on approval only