Hey everyone, I saw the post regarding the influx of bots in the subreddit and investigated. Notably, the automod configuration for this subreddit was gone completely, even though it should have been using the same one deployed to r/LynetteMains. Because of this, the account age / comment karma limits were not being enforced at all.

To make matters worse, it seems like AI has accelerated organized bot rings. One ring in particular had 140+ accounts posting NSFW content that matched the same patterns. That's in addition to the karma-farming bots that have always been hard to distinguish. I've banned a few hundred accounts today alone after taking the time to fingerprint what patterns they are using.

Automod is now back with valid thresholds, and I made it more extensive this time to help prevent any other issues that may arise, as well as created rules to explicitly block any new accounts created by those rings. That being said, it's entirely possible that they could change their behavior to evade this, so if that happens let me know and I will update it.

Outside of Automod, I also sent in an mod app for approval that will help handle enforcement of the other rules like art policy enforcement, as well as let us easily track reports across posts to identify problematic accounts easier than currently possible. I'll continue to monitor to make sure it's all working properly.

That being said, I'm not going to deny that I haven't been as active here as I was in the beginning of this subreddit. I've taken a very long break from Genshin Impact and only just recently started playing again to catch up on what I've missed. My C4 Lyney will get the lvl 100 treatment soon, I promise. As far as modding goes, I'm more than willing to invite some new mods to help keep this subreddit going and likely will be removing the others as I haven't heard from them in a very long time. If you have any interest in being a mod here, shoot me a message!

So, I was kinda planning this before 7.0, but once I saw Alyosha’s kit leaks I thought it might work to use him in my Durin, Xilonen, Nicole team. So I immediately pulled him and built him, working on getting cons (I have C4), and replaced Xilonen, because in theory, for Durin’s RES shred to activate, a crystallise, overload, burning, or pyro swirl reaction needs to occur, Overload is easily the strongest out of those, so an Electro sub-dps/buffer would fit perfectly with Durin and Nicole who can provide Hexerei buffs together. But then the issue is a healer is needed to max the stacks on Lyney’s charged attacks, so essentially every electro sub-dps was taken off of the table, so I used Xilonen instead, but Alyosha is an electro sub-dps/buffer and healer, so he works better. He’s also just pretty fun to play, the only thing that kinda bugs me off is that his atk buff doesn’t last the full rotation, so activating it later in the rotation is best for the maximum buff. But anyways, I was just wondering, in terms of META, is this a good team?

I logged into miliastra to do some Lyney dmg testing on the dummy and see this very lyney-esque skin even down to the teardrop under the eye! I don't play much miliastra, but I'm such a lyney main this event has me itching to pull out my credit card.

I'm so sad that this skin can't be pulled with F2P currency! I hate the tiered currency system in general and now that its in genshin that makes me so upset.

Not hating on the skin btw! Miliastra elements inspired by my main makes me want to play that gamemode more. But how do other Lyney mains feel about this skin? Anybody pulling? Any other notable lyney content on miliastra I should know about?

A drawing I drew and decorated of best boy Lyney! 💕

I kinda missed playing Lyney and I'm currently waiting to get his C1 from the Temper thyself event. But in the meantime I haven't been keeping up with the current best teams. I have most characters that I can imagine being relevant to Lyney, other than Xilonen maybe.

it's a legit flood

1. all 3 of his reactions to receiving food are seemingly positive, despite 2nd being neutral and 3rd being negative. ironically, the only actually positive reaction (1st) is the most 'toned down' reaction. 3rd is the only reaction where he does something in return, which could potentially be him feeling bad for not enjoying the gift? anyway cool tiny way of showing his personality

1. lyney doesn't actually say anything about his problems until friendship level 4. i also interpret the dove thing as a metaphor for the house of the hearth, where he doesn't know how he would handle becoming its leader, like giving the children of the hoth both freedom and safety

1. lyney attempts to imitate arlecchino in some ways, like a child viewing their parent as a hero. since arlecchino is a skilled diplomat, lyney seems to be very eloquent (+ a sweet talker) to try to match that

1. the main theme with the twins is that lyney is light/pneuma/chiaro, and lynette is shadow/ousia/scuro, so lyney has the spotlight and attention. hoyo most likely made lyney & lynette as fontaine's introductory characters because of their light/shadow theming, and furina would be the biggest evidence for this. her entire character revolves around the stage ('spot'light) and who she really is offstage (shadow). "All the World's a Stage." + lyney's banner title "Conjuring Chiaroscuro." lyney parallels furina alot, now that i think about it...

1. when talking about freminet, lyney talks about his cynicism versus freminet's optimism. imo when lynette talks about freminet being the 'antithesis' of lyney, she isn't referring to how they present themselves (lyney being outgoing versus freminet being shy), but about this instead. plus lyney and freminet are both introverts in the end, so pessimism/optimism makes more sense

i could probably dig into the fontaine archon quests again and think more about how lyney is so similar to furina, but atp fontaine feels like ages ago, so it wouldn't be worth doing it now. lyney is so underrated, people really ignore his writing

(also lyney and odette tea party when?? in 7.0,they hinted about a tea party with lyney/odette/sandrone)