So, I started blocking accounts that don’t engage with the stuff I post and just make personal attacks. After blocking these handful of accounts all the harassment stopped entirely. Vast majority of people on the lemmyverse are across different instances aren’t attacking other people. There are just a handful of really active trolls out there, and I think the best policy might be to just start blocking them when we see them.
- @bigstupidn3gger@narwhal.city
- @erdos4d@lemmy.ml
- @hitlerdidnowrong@lemmy.tedomum.net
- @lordofbud@lemmy.ml
- @thanos_snapped@lemmy.ml
- @mykhaylo@fosstodon.org
- @FireMyth@lemmy.one
- @chebra@mstdn.io
- @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
- @TWeaK@lemm.ee
- @b3nsn0w@pricefield.org
- @SeaJ@lemm.ee
- @BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
- @AdamantlyAdam@newsie.social
- @Vilian@lemmy.ca
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All of those account links are mailto links for some reason.
Oh ha, I think the browser interprets the foo @ bar.baz as a mailto.
I think if you type like @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml, Lemmy will automatically convert it into its Markdown hyperlink form
ah you’re right, let me update
We should have a thread where we post any troll accounts we encounter on the Fediverse so we can block them. Kind of a masterpost.
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I think that the moderators should do this more actively. I haven’t been here for to long, but already saw a lot of trolling/Sealioning. Sometimes it gets really annoying.
I do think it would be good to have a policy to ban users who show a pattern of not engaging constructively.
Could we ban accounts under like a month old and/or with no post history? I wonder how many that would stop
A lot of people like to lurk and we shouldn’t discourage them from participating when they feel up to it. I’d give people the benefit of the doubt since there seem to be only a handful of trolls around.
We have been banning liberals liberally. Some trolls are good at their job and are able to bait ten or so replies with low effort regurgitation of PragerU level talking points before getting reported.
Not me, I report at the slightest whiff of troll/liberalism
i do the same… i don’t want to spend my time arguing with people who are just arguing in bad faith, and i don’t want to spend time arguing with people who want to nitpick and tell me what i can and cannot say according to their own personal opinions
the internet is a big place with so many possibilities… I’m not going to feel bad about blocking people at all
edit: having said that last bit i realize I’m guilty of nitpicking things that annoy me but i never tell anyone they cannot say this or that thing
yeah, blocking trolls is just essential mental self care
I have noticed that when multiple accounts are involved they are, more often than not, from the same instance. I have noticed it mostly from the lemmy.ee instance aso I just assumed that was one of the instances the feds just keep spare accounts to use when needed.
yeah I noticed that as well
The funniest part is when one of these guys won’t write a comment, but will just go and downvote every single comment on a post. Like yeah, that’s a great use of your time there buddy.
lol yeah, I just imagine them stamping their little feet while raging in front a keyboard
