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It varies by instance. PieFed has "spam detection" (not really) which is just a list of the posts and comments that have been downvoted a lot in the last 3 days so it's easy for admins to spot unreported badness and take action. I don't know how often other admins do but I check that report multiple times per day.
For example I nuked unlogopoco from piefed.social a month ago
Looking at the modlog for stermy, I'm seeing a fair bit of moderation action being taken on them and very few posts since then:
On piefed.social I banned townflex.com entirely weeks ago, which must be why I'm not seeing their latest spams.
Basically Lemmy has really poor tools for this which makes mods and admins do a lot more work then necessary, causing them to burn out. If they used PieFed they'd have a much better time.
I really appreciate your efforts in developing Piefed.
I didn't see the moderation actions you refranced, I just noticed them posting everywhere. That's why I wrote my post.
Thank you for explaining it.
No problem!
BTW in PieFed you can report a user account, not just individual posts. So if you go to https://piefed.world/u/stermy4u@lemmy.world then click on More -> Report that'll ping the piefed.world admins about it. It looks like in this case they've been responding to individual posts by removing them and not seeing the bigger picture but they will see it once they look at the user profile.