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submitted 7 months ago by ettyblatant@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I swear, ~~every time~~ most of the time I see someone being particularly rude, ignorant, and inappropriate on a post (usually political in origin, or they swing it to being political) I click on their profile and see it has been created that same day.

They are only there to sow discord. Only to piss people off. Idk if we can just report them (for what?) but I'd like to try exposing them before responding and interacting..

I am guilty of gobbling up the bait. I've started looking at profiles of people that piss me off exceptionally and noticed they're burner bot loser accounts.

I guess i just want to say I've noticed it!

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[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

As soon as anyone starts arguing in bad faith I just block them. I don't really care what they have to say about me for my argument.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

The only problem with blocking is they still see your comments you make, and can respond to them negatively, and you have no way of defending yourself because you haven't seen their comment.

My wish would be for blocking to prevent those who are blocked from reading comments from the blocker.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I would love better blocking. But I understand the costs of doing that in a truly federated environment. I'll just settle for not caring what they actually say about me. The whole point of the trolling is to get a rise out of someone.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Stopping viewing on a per-account basis doesn't make sense to me, since people don't need accounts to view any content in Lemmy, therefore it's trivial to bypass by logging out or fetching the discussion information without logging in from a custom frontend. What would be better is simply stopping them from interracting, just like what happens with bans, they can still view but all interractions are simply dropped or disallowed.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I wish you could set a personal minimum "karma" and age requirement. Like I don't want to hear from anyone with an account made in the last week. And no one with karma below zero.

It's not really a high bar, it mainly blocks people who get banned all the time.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago
[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I dunno. It was there before. Maybe just total their last 5 comment scores. So it's easy to just not be a dick all the time and get through the filter.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

But how would one acquire karma if no one sees their comments?

Also automatically shadow banning new users will mean cool people that come to the site will get the impression that it sucks and leave and never come back.

[-] meleethecat@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

You could just block users with a total < 0 points for those comments.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it's extremely easy to not be blocked.

[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Oh the cool people are long gone /s

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Karma is easily falsified on the lemmyverse though. I have a maintenance user and a normal user on my server, I can use them both to vote, and thats just easy and not even intentional.

this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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