I told them in PMs that, as a mod, I self limit to 3 posts a day for fear of being seen as putting my thumb on the scale and influencing the discourse.

And that’s in the groups I mod(!)

He’s over that by a factor of 10+

32 posts a day is a LOT.

Honestly, that’s not even that impressive… It’s only 4 posts per hour over a 8 hour work day, which is completely achievable if Internet trolling is your hobby of choice.

What’s really impressive is the number of comments. I won’t speculate on Monk’s motives (out of fear of running afoul of this community’s rules) except to say that they seem extremely motivated to argue with anyone and everyone who posts a disagreeing comment. Their tactic is to bicker with any dissenting voices (without actually engaging with their arguments) to the point of exhaustion so that no one will bother engaging anymore — a very specific strategy I have to imagine is designed to shift the Overton window a particular way.

Fortunately, their efforts seem to have been mostly ineffective given the number of people around here who continue to call out their BS. So keep fighting the good fight, I guess!

I dunno if it’s trolling. It’s deluded and obsessive demonstrating a lot of free time, but, like, they’re passionate about it.

I mean, they have some magical thinking and logic and I don’t think their actions are actually pragmatic towards their goals, but I’m fairly certain it’s genuine.

Either way, this was the right move.

Edit: ehhhhhh some other comments have shown they were acting like a troll fairly consistently. Maybe this should have been done sooner.

I want to second this. I understand the mods prefer a case-by-case approach, but I think that leaves a very specific pathway for bad actors to exploit. Monk was posting a purely insane amount of comments along with a very high but not as insane number of posts, and almost all of it was low-value, and often copy-pasted from a previous comment.

Do the mods even have easy access to the kind of data your script was pulling? I think that may be part of the issue is that the mod tools with Lemmy are lacking/limited.

I get that, but hear me out… it’s just as likely that they’re an obsessive compulsive, possibly on the autism spectrum, who can’t stand letting someone have the last word.

https://neurodivergentrebel.com/2021/09/15/autism-obsessive-behavior-why-i-cant-always-let-things-go-as-an-autistic-person/

https://www.asd-forum.org.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/28892-arguing-with-other-asd-people-someone-always-has-to-have-the-last-word/

Now, I’m no clinical psychologist, I’m not competent to make that diagnosis, but I’m sure you’ve also seen arguments between two people incapable of letting it go.

How did you generate this report?

like a certain maneuver named after a certain starship captain.

Ahh, yes! The Janeway Shuffle!

Yeah you’re right. Notice no one is trying to get those folks banned

It would be a nice Lemmy feature if posts and comments under, say, -20 were auto-collapsed. That would allow people to still see unpopular content without everyone having to wade through it.

Oh I bet there’ll be posts regarding election integrity starting 11/6.

If they don’t reappear then I think there is a legitimate argument that it was a coordinated propaganda account.

If they do come back with the same level of veracity then I think there is merit to the potential mental illness, or neurodivergence argument.

Yeah, reddit had something like that baked in, I’m not sure how lemmy could implement it.

“You are doing that too much, try again later.”

It seemed to be tied to both the age of the account and the karma of the account. It varies from subreddit to subreddit.

There also seemed to be a difference if you were subscribed to the community or not.

But then we’re comparing something relatively new (lemmy) to an established platform with over a decade of development too.

Let’s be real, it’s basically a perm ban because I sincerely doubt that dude is showing face around here after the election.

UniversalMonk@lemmy.world “Socialist Mormon Satanist” stats pulled @ 10/22/2024, 1:37:27 PM EDT

• Account created 75 days ago (8/8/2024, 9:21:38 PM EDT)

• 6,131 contributions (= 1,932 posts + 4,199 comments)

• 81.7 average contributions / day

• 11.7 mins average time between contributions (assuming 8 hrs of sleep / day)

• 83,172 downvotes accrued

  • -65,774 net reputation points
  • ~1.3 mins between downvotes on average
  • ~14.3 average downvotes / submission
  • 0.21 upvote to downvote ratio

• 231,519 words written as comments, 58,014 words written in posts

• 3,861 words (~16 typed pages) written per day

• ~77 mins / day writing comments (40 words / min)

• ~32 mins / day making posts (40 words / min + 30 secs / post)

• ~137 hrs commenting/posting in the past 75 days which breaks down to

  • ~109 mins / day
  • ~31.9% of a full time job
  • 11.4% of their waking hours

• See the modlog for more info.

None of this takes into account time reading others’ posts/comments, or alts this user may secretly have.

They’re atrocious.