Today I noticed a huge wall of spam from UniversalMonk from 2 different accounts and didn’t initially think much of it and blocked their communities but more spam came from different communities.

At this point I checked and saw that they had created several communities which then led me down the rabbit hole to discover that their posts had almost entirely covered the new posts page of both sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee. Later on I discovered that they’re posting right-wing propaganda and misinformation from breitbart, foxnews you name it.

He’s already caused and stirred shit 2 months ago and clearly I can see why now.

At this point it’s difficult to believe that UniversalMonk will learn proper netiquette in: not post spamming, being considerate to others, and not sharing right-wing extremist content that no one wants.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    26·
    1 day ago

    I agree with the sentiment but this here is not a complaints forum.

    Please report that user and his communities to the admins of the instances he’s registered at. A quick look at the sidebars of both sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee would suggest that their admins banning him is a slam dunk.

    Maybe ask at !support@lemm.ee and !main@sh.itjust.works what to do?

    On the grounds of !fediverse not being a complaints forum, I’m going to lock this post.

  • x1gma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    1 day ago

    Why are we giving this person their stage again? How probable is it that the instance admins of the like 15 instances they have accounts on will all collectively ban him? It’s just your average nazi spammer on the internet. You’ve read that “bio” this person has. Even if they get banned, they’ll come back just on principle. Just block him like any sane person would do, leave him shadow banned like that with his nazi friends, and call it a day.

  • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    1 day ago

    Oh wow. UM really is just a malignancy that refuses to go away, isn’t he? I’m all for allowing different opinions but if someone keeps peeing in the pool, sooner or later you stop letting him in.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
    44·
    1 day ago

    This fucker is still around eh? I remember him single-handedly sowing discord in c/politics around the time of the election with incessant pro 3rd party spam and insane tirades of sealioning - also report abuse if I remember right. Or at least taunting people into breaking rules and subsequently reporting them. I was amazed at the time that he was allowed to remain unbanned for ages in that sub when it was very clear what he was doing.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    147·
    2 days ago

    That mf is still around? And now they’re spamming right wing nazi stuff, despite definitely for sure being a legitimate honest 3rd party Jill Stein Stan? My gosh, say it isn’t so!

    There is nothing for them to learn about “netiquette”, they are a cancerous wart intentionally participating in bad faith with the entire fediverse.

  • proleEnglish
    19·
    1 day ago

    Oh wow, that’s the first time I’ve seen this person’s userpage and read… whatever that is.

    So fucking cringe.

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    100% if he is breaking the ToS on multiple instances (and I would argue that spamming most likely is, not to mention the substance of the content)

    He can always create his own instance and anyone who wants to see his content can join it as well. Instance admins shouldn’t feel obligated to give anyone a platform (ahem, .world), the fediverse is decentralized and democratic.

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    This is harassment directed towards one specific user.

    If you find direct offense to their posts, you should let the instance admins manage that through reports. If there is many instances, do that many reports.

    But this is basically fascist harassment. A witch hunt.

    What, no one can dissent from your ideology? Is it that weak that it cannot and will not handle criticism?

    The reverse applies as well. If you want, open your own instance echo chamber and talk to yourself.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    2 days ago

    Everyone wanted to know how it would go for the “I just want people to support a 3rd party” folks after the election… Well, now you know!

    • RandomGen1@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      I want to push back on this just a little. Clearly UM isn’t the bastion of consistent good thought, but others that were maligned like return2ozma have been pretty consistent in what they post.

      This is to say, “Great, one person is a fuckup. Why are we attributing this to the whole group?”

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        2 days ago

        He was banned on lemmy.world for excessive Jill Stiein/3rd party spam prior to the election and the discussion at the time was “What will they do after the election?” Well, now you know. Right Wing all along.

  • SGforce@lemmy.caEnglish
    48·
    2 days ago

    I wouldn’t care so much if he wasn’t such a bitch about it. You want to post that stuff than own up and admit it. Fucking cryptofascist.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    45·
    2 days ago

    Eh, I just had a run-in with them again.

    Trying to get every instance to ban them is a little crazy tbh, and I think you’re right that their entire goal is a blend of trolling and misinformation.

    It isn’t crazy because they’re acting in bad faith. It’s crazy because just lemmy is already too big to try and organize a lemmy wide ban. Trying to get a fediverse wide one applied ain’t happening.

    Best you can do is report them for the spamming in the instances they do it on.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        18·
        2 days ago

        Reports don’t just go to mods, they go to admins as well. And you can usually contact admins in other ways on most instances.

        • recursive_recursion they/them@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          14·
          2 days ago

          Reports don’t just go to mods, they go to admins as well.

          You’re not wrong. Again however if the mod dismisses the report, the admin(s) would be unaware of the report unless they check the All tab. On P.D. anyways the report queue defaults to Unread, not sure if that can be changed on the newer instance versions.

          And you can usually contact admins in other ways on most instances.

          Again true, however [a user who’s already made a report] is it highly likely that they’d message the admins for an update? maybe?

          It’s a non-zero possibility, but for my own report experience I actually just send a report and forget about it (unless I’m personally looking and pondering the reports queued on P.D’s report page, earlier last year I tried to send messages to users who made reports saying thank yous or updates on what happened to their reports).

          For any users here please comment if you’ve asked for an update I’m actually genuinely curious what the frequency is.

          Edit:
          Ah right I just remembered that I wanted to request for a feature that community moderators can’t dismiss the report that’s made about them. This is the same copyright loophole system that exists in Youtube.

          “The claimant gets to review the dispute, the guy who wants to have my song; he gets to decide if he actually owns my song.”

          This is the same contradictory system in a slightly different manner:
          The defendant gets to review the dispute, the guy who’s been reported; they get to decide whether to accept or reject the report.

          I noticed this paradox earlier last year when I made some terrible posts and asked the P.D. team to review the reports made on me as I didn’t want to fall into this trap.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
    39·
    2 days ago

    It blows my mind that the admins of UniversalMonk-affected servers don’t just ban him on sight.

    Guys: You’re being too nice. I get it, you want to be inclusive. But you have to draw lines. Someone doesn’t have to be telling racist jokes or something, in order to be clearly and unapologetically a net negative to the community in every possible sense. And, showing them firmly to the door doesn’t have to be a complex or “objective” process when that happens.