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!

  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    There’s posts about mods complaining about users using the report button as a “super downvote” you go to those posts, there are people legit trolling in them and the content is still there.

    The excuse is, Lemmy needs content, so they are very loose and liberal in applying moderation like that against users that add content.

    I’ve had an admin defend a mod when I reported them with “they aren’t as bad as some of the others”. So Lemmy admins know they have moderation issues, if they fix it, they lose their content and their free labor. So they just turn a blind eye and let the mods do what they want, which is quite frankly nothing. And when asked they report you to the admins. They really only deal with illegal stuff unfortunately, since they have to or they can get in shit personally.

    Trolls unfortunately add content, which is desperately needed. Some communities deal with it, larger let it go for discussion and metrics sake. Lemmy isn’t perfect, and we should be able to discuss its darker side.

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Trolling is simply noise and garbage to dispose of when it becomes an attack on the person. It brings nothing of value and it diminishes the value of everything else it pollutes.

      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
        01·
        7 months ago

        Trolling is simply noise and garbage to dispose of when it becomes an attack on the person.

        Trolling doesn’t ONLY require personal attacks…. That’s the issue, mods only step in when things progress too far and have reached that point….

      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
        01·
        7 months ago

        Ugghh that’s a good point, this was .world for admins, but the moderation issues seem to be non instance specific.

        Also makes me wonder if some of the trolling is dealt with and its federation issues then…

        Still, the amount of trolling comments, and users being banned for pretty frivolous things isn’t a good look.