That sounds very much like my philosophy here.

Still, that's something like five posts a day if you're really doing it all by hand. May I ask if you're posting stuff verbatim or whether you add on to whatever you've found?

I think this is a massive overreach on the part of piefed and actually discourages posting.

You've presumably read the explanations and the fact that Rimu is less than pleased with how this kind of thing works, and is open to better ideas. Still-- it addresses a real, known issue, and let's not forget that hand-built, volunteer-based social media software like this is inevitably going to have growing pains like this. You know?

A "massive overreach" to simply ask if you're a bot because you're a prolific poster? Seems a little ridiculous to me. At best it could be perceived as suspicious or annoying.

There are tons of obviously-bot accounts reposting shit like crazy, and while I appreciate having content on the threadiverse, having thoughtless trash content is much much worse than having limited content.

Look at my comments, it’s like the third one down. That’s all the context I have.

The instance runner didn't do anything wrong either, other than to word the message less than ideally. But there's a major point going on with the new "reposter" category, and users have made it clear they'd prefer such accts to be marked as such. That's the root of things.

I’d encourage anyone else that receives these messages to ignore them and block the sender.

To me that would be like throwing the baby out with the bath water. It's a one-time message that'll likely never be seen again, not any kind of spam or whatever. And if we blocked people as easily as that, then we might as well block everyone on the Fediverse who very occasionally annoyed us.

You can. It says that in the OP. The link goes to Piefed.social domain, so shouldn't be suspicious. Replying back requires manual review from someone who is a volunteer moderator, administrator and developer. The link automates the process so he can focus on other things.