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.
Nobody was personally attacking the user. They were complaining about behavior. Then, when the user refused to change the behavior, they got understandably annoyed about it, but it still wasnāt really an attack. āThe motives of an account with such activity should be questionedā is probably about as bad as it got, and I fully agree with that statement.
Politics used to have a guideline about the max rate of posting that was considered reasonable. I have no idea if they still do, but a ādonāt spam random storiesā guideline is pretty reasonable, whether or not it is written in the rules, and by any possible metric that someone would pick, this user is exceeding it.
People elsewhere in the comments have weighed in on the āspirit of the rulesā difference between heavy intentional posting like the users you listed do, versus heavy random posting with explicit propaganda sprinkled in.
Youāve actually removed stories posted by this user and then reported before, although it was for wrongness of headline. Theyāve been getting a steady flow of reports for spamming over the last week or so as theyāve ramped it up, although I think this was the first time one hit your specific communities specifically for the offense of spamming. They frequently get reports for propaganda or other defects in their flood of stories.
I donāt think āhave we seen reports about this person beforeā is a good metric. Had you received reports about Ghyste before you banned them? You didnāt seem to have a problem banning them.
I can only see reports that were filed specifically against me (for the comments you removed). There were two reports on those ones, and they were both from the same person.
There were two reports for spam on this post alone, from two different people, as well as all the comments and votes about how it was a problem. They have enough of a steady flow of reports about them that there are always a few of them hanging out in my mod queue.
Why do the two reports from the same person represent more weight of mod decision than the two reports from different people + comments + votes?
Cool beans. Why did you rely more heavily on the reports for āattackingā by complaining about the spam, than you did about the reports for the spam?
Goddamn, Phil, I didnāt know you roasted coffee.