Sticking to the normal routine.

A powerful speech. It’s wonderful to hear someone in her position speak out so strongly.

What a little shitbag…

Oh absolutely. My comment was an old joke concerning a social media account named Ken M.

Speak for yourself.

Bet that smells fantastic…

You’re worse about getting sleep than I am.

No.

Likely.

What the hell happened to her face‽ Why is bad plastic surgery mandatory for actors now?

Nothing. They just changed the adjective.

Dementia Donnie strikes again.

(More likely another lie)

Best computer game theme ever

Bam. Roasted.

Literally. The sudden compression would have briefly caused everything in that capsule to combust like a fire piston.

Right there with you on all of this. I actually just said as much in reply to Java’s comment to you.

To summarize: “They did nothing wrong and we knew nothing about it”.

• The first part of that statement is false.
• The second part of that statement is either 1) false 2) admission that they don’t pay a bit of attention to communities they signed up to pay attention to, or 3) indication that they’re buried and need more assistance with moderating (to be charitable)

And trust me, if speaking out like this is the only thing that results in action being taken I’ll continue to do so, though it would be nice to see that change.

You have a very interesting definition of personal attack. The one thing I said that was personal was “touch grass”, and that was in response to a smartass reply. Everything else stated was factual observation of their behavior.

I find it hard to believe that your entire mod team didn’t notice this account’s activity, and as Philip advised there have definitely been other reports. If any of your mods were paying any attention at all the sketchy sources were front and center in the community feed.

It would be daft to turn a blind eye to this and simply block anyone like this account. Hell, according to your own comments even with reports nothing would have been done since on the most technical level according to you no rules were broken. If you can’t read between the lines when accounts exhibit activity like this, Lemmy is going to turn into a propaganda spamverse.

In the end it’s your community/instance so you do you, but such attitude will not foster growth of the fediverse, especially with desirable users.

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Hit the nail on the head. This is the same pattern I’ve seen and exactly why I called them out: In addition to spam levels of posts, they were also breaking community rules concerning reputable and unbiased sources. I find it hard to believe that their activity was unnoticed by the mod teams of any of the communities they were flooding and yet their posts were never moderated. I think I was banned for drawing attention to the issue.

I wonder which instance the next account will be on…

Oh hey, I was wondering if this might show up here.

I will admit that I was aggressive in calling them out, but I’d seriously had enough of scrolling through All and seeing nothing but their name on everything, on top of seeing the same post on 3-5 different communities.

Language aside, I believe my concerns were reasonable enough and clearly stated. Power users of that nature can control what everyone on this platform is exposed to, potentially manipulating opinions and injecting disinformation. Lemmy is still small enough that a handful of people could potentially influence the entire user base. Vigilance is key.

My remaining concerns are 1) There are still other accounts with identical behavior that have not been addressed and 2) I have seen accounts like this one cycle through instances, and I expect we’ll see a new account begin the same behavior from somewhere else soon enough.

Quite amusing that Cat deleted their account though. Exactly the sort of behavior you’d expect from someone just innocently posting content, right?

Beyond that, I could see a temp ban for my language. But 15 days? Yeesh. It was actually removed a short time ago so I guess another mod got a look at things.

Here’s the ban explanation, basically saying “spammers and suspicious activity is a-okay, and how dare you say anything about it”