celticviking

It seems that I have left in time to not catch an AI summary about myself. XD

Don't be too excited. That's been done on here at Lemmy too. I think it was called santabot (on slrpnk instance I think), and it would ban/unban you from some guys community purely based on your upvote/downvote ratio even if you had never heard of his community, without any other input. The mod log was filled with "xxxx banned. xxxx unbanned. xxx banned, etc."

It was controversial, and some called him out on it, but others thought he was doing awesome with it. He mentioned that he was almost done working out the kinks in it and would be offering it to other mods to use.

He's no longer around now, but I was surprised the admins let him keep using that bot the entire time he was here.

they even brag about creating accounts specifically for this purpose

Yep! I've seen it happen me, which is why I created a new identity for myself, so I could get away from those guys.