This one is both upsetting and weird.
So there was a user on ponder.cat whoās been spamming posts. Like a lot. 58 per day, on average. Not 58 comments. 58 posts.
I started seeing a little scattering of reports about it, mostly just figured it was the modsā business to deal with, and then finally today I actually really took a look at what they were doing and realized it was way over the top. Pretty much everyone in the comments agreed when someone brought it up.
A 25 day old account with 1,400+ posts? What the actual fuck? My entire goddamn feed is this one accountā¦
Touch grass. Good lord. Youāre carpet bombing multiple communities with repeats of the same crap.
The user was not receptive.
lol.
I guess people here do not know how to block an account.
:)
Is that a compliment or a rant?
May I introduce you to Lemmy block function.
If you donāt like my posts then block me and you will never see them again. As simple as that.
Thatās a bunch of bullshit. The voting was about as you would expect. I said to the user:
Thatās not how it works. If youāre interfering with the average Lemmy userās experience, you donāt get to claim it doesnāt count because each individual person would be able to block each individual problematic account, if they wanted to have a good experience. Honestly, these people have a point. You have been posting an average of 58 posts per day. Thatās too much. I post a ton, and thatās about 10 times more than me, and Iāve gotten multiple complaints about posting too much in particular communities. The handful of times itās happened, my reaction was āOh my bad what sounds like an acceptable levelā and then to more or less stick to an acceptable level. Getting snarky with people who are asking you to cool it is very bad. Please stop posting so much. Anything about 10-15 posts per day starts to feel really excessive to me. Definitely donāt be dismissive about peopleās complaints to you about it.
They rejected my suggestion, so I sent them a DM that was a little more direct about it: Stop doing this if you want to keep your account on my instance.
Then, for some reason, they deleted their account on their own.
Well, that was weird, but at least itās all resolved and we can all get back to what we were doing. Or waitā¦ whatās happening now?
I wasnāt expecting āmaking sure we make a safe space for the spammers by banning people who complain about spamā to be an important moderation duty, but I guess in the bizarro world that is !news@lemmy.world moderation philosophy, it makes perfect sense.
https://lemmy.world/modlog/1347
@Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
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I didnāt tell them to touch grass, that was one of the users that was sort of arguing with them in the comments. My first involvement was the long and serious comment that I quoted last. Iāve been trying to be less of an asshole online, and that message keeping the sarcasm out of it and just being straight with them about what was going on, was a good example.
It wasnāt just that they post a lot, itās a very spammy collection of articles including some from open propaganda sources like RT.com. My main concern with them was the volume but also the low quality of the posts, but I left it alone as not my business until there was widespread complaining from users coupled with total disregard on their part for what the users were saying about it.
You and The_Picard_Maneuver are completely fine. Usually I like when people post a lot. The only exception is what itās all low quality or just-to-full-space stuff, which certainly isnāt you.
To give a frame of reference, you and The_Picard_Maneuver both make about 5 posts a day it looks like. This person made over 10 times that many (58 per day average) and people were actively asking them to cool it, and they were sort of snarking back at the people who were making the request. Yāall are fine.
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Ha. I just added up posts over the lifetime of your account. I just looked over the last couple pages and you might do a little more than that in the recent past. Dude, youāre fine. Itās largely meme content in meme communities. If you were posting RT.com to the meme communities and often to multiple communities with all the same story from RT.com it would be a little more of an issue. Like I say, it wasnāt the volume (although that certainly was a factor), it was more that they were putting all kinds of unreliable or explicit-propaganda stuff that was drowning out the news that was not that.