@LMAO is flooding the site with random communities because they're salty about being banned for claiming too many community names. They claim they're trying to "fuck your entire site up" but I imagine it's a relatively quick fix to delete all the communities they're creating, LMAO.
The most annoying thing is that the "Trending Communities" section is filled with spam right now.
I think this does show an ~~inherent~~ current flaw with Lemmy. We need a way to report users through their profile. So far we can only report users when they comment, but this guy isn't commenting anywhere so there's no report button. Unless I'm missing something. :p
Truly, having some spam text in a box in the corner of the homepage "fucks the entire site up". Truly.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my site is ruined.
@ruud@lemmy.world I'm sure you're tremendously busy already, just want to make sure you're aware of this.
time for a purge
This is why we can't have nice things smh. On a positive note, even the douchebags now have abandoned Reddit and think Lemmy is the future.
What a loser, LMAO
This is who we’re leaving behind at Reddit. Salty little baby
I think we might have a few GUIs for PostgreSQL, but for the most part, you're stuck trying to figure out the best way to isolate the problem communities. Unless all of the names are absurdly long or they have some other defining characteristic in common, all new communities created within a certain timeframe might need to be deleted.
Any rdbms should be able to handle it and it should be trivial to select all communities where mod_id = troll.
That's what I meant: any variable that they all have in common should be what is selected. When we were dealing with spam accounts on NormalCity, I mostly used particular patterns in the email addresses to find problem accounts. Funnily enough, some of the accounts had flat out invalid email addresses that had no .tld, and plenty had long sequences of numbers that were easy to isolate.
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