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 wait⦠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.
on the contrary it sounds insane to equate āposting with high volumeā with āposting Nazi contentā as though thatās a fair example you can use toward your argument at all
āpeople who post a lot are basically Nazisā ??? hello? lmao
if they are posting content that shouldnāt be there, report it. if the mods disagree, start a petition or encourage a migration. if you still canāt make change, use the block button. itās really actually easy lol
Okay, sure.
āThereās nothing wrong with posting ads for your home supplement company, which everyone hates, as long as you cleared it with the mods first and they said it was okay.ā
That oneās probably a more accurate analogy.
so did that actually happen? and if so why would you complain about it as a volume issue and not a self advertising issue?
I am pointing out that the central conceit of their message ā apparently, that nothing a user does can ever be wrong, as long as the mods are okay with it ā is weird and incorrect. By way of some amplified versions and other situations where the same logic would lead to an absurd outcome.
Obviously, a poster can be posting too much, even if the mods are okay with it. Thatās the whole point of this community, is to second-guess the judgement of the mods.
here you seem to equate āusers can post at a high volume if they follow the other rulesā with ānothing the user does can ever be wrongā which NO one ever said
i hope the absurdity of this is innately apparent lol