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!
Part of the attraction of this place is that it is like things used to be for the most part. Freedom of expression has always been a double edged sword that all of us have to be responsible for. When you start asking others to police an environment, youre giving up that freedom not just for those you find distasteful but for yourself as well. If you simply excercise due diligence in your consumption, you can easily learn what is comfortably digestible and what will give you a heart attack
It rocks! And if it gets shitty where you’re at, just go to a new instance and you can stay!
Is this the last migration?
Some people don’t get this:
If your communities are filled with polarized nonsense, your people suck, not your tech.
Right now, people’s suckyness worldwide is at an all time high.
It’s almost the European Parliament and US presidential elections. Just today our national crisis centre heightened the threat level after a presumed Russian threat mail was send to Wallonian schools yesterday.
No, not really.
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Also worth pointing out that the best way of reading this thread is looking at all of the removed comments in the modlog. Lol.
Is this something publicly accessible or do you need to be a mod or host an instance?
Just go to the instance website and there will be a link to the modlog usually at the bottom of the page.
Two downvotes for just supplying a link to a comment that answers the question, so that copy/paste is not done?
I guess we’re not supposed to be helpful anymore. /shrug
You can put /modlog after the instance URL, e.g. https://lemmy.world/modlog
This is so fucking good. I was so sick of shadowbans and not knowing what went down on reddit.
Only banned once because i supported ukraine to much, doing pretty good.
Guess that was probably on an lemmy.ml community?
My only complaint with the modlog is that it doesn’t say which moderator performed the action. It just says “mod”, so there’s no way for a community to make sure particular mods aren’t just going rogue.
The Modlog is (or should be, in theory) accessible on any Lemmy/Kbin instance. However, it is on an instance by instance basis whether the Modlog shows full information for each moderator action. Like you said, some instances will only show “mod” but others will provide the names.
To be honest, I haven’t been looking at the Fediverse a whole lot lately, so I can’t recommend which ones are the best and most transparent. At one point in time, the Lemmy.world Modlog did provide full info but it seems that they have changed that in recent months.
Also, certain instances have definitely started to selectively federate mod logs for whatever reason. .ml being the worst offender. It’s a good idea in theory, but it’s already being abused.
I just did and some of the stuff is wild. Not gonna quote or reference anything for my account safety, don’t ask.
I absolutely love the mod log. Some days I just read through that instead of the regular Lemmy posts.
It’s not just an entertaining read, it’s a valuable resource to look at to determine if mods in certain communities are over-moderating. Imo for months, mods in many of the largest communities are far overstepping their roles and not just “moderating” their communities but actively censoring opinions they don’t like.
If you don’t like it, then start your own fed; til then, no one gives a fuck about your backseat moderation
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It’s not just an entertaining read, it’s a valuable resource to look at to determine if mods in certain communities are over-moderating.
Agree. Honestly that’s where I find the entertainment from, actually looking at how the mods actually do their moderating, the kind of reasons why they give.
It’s interesting to compare the moderation that happens between the different communities too.
Now I’m really curious. How do you read those comments?
On Kbin and Lemmy instances, the link is called “Modlog” at the bottom of the page in browser. I don’t use any Fedi apps so I don’t know what it looks like there.
You can see all of the deleted comments every day. I recommend everyone to look at the Modlog at least occasionally. You get a real pulse on how each community is moderated and you can make a better informed decision on where you actually want to hang out.
There’s a link at the bottom of each and every Lemmy page.
You can search by community/post/user.
Some threads have a handful of interactions that seem less than genuine, yes. Usually political and derailing and spoil the thread.
Yes. I hardly look at Lemmy any more. It’s so toxic
But you made a post less <2 days ago, and commented over 50 times just this past week
So, did you just VERY recently start “hardly looking” or something? Or are you just trolling/full of
shitbologna?. No hard feelings or anything, but damn; low effort. Be betterThank you. The one sympathetic voice in a sea of frothing idiocy
yes and its awesome.
lemmy needs more troll accounts and we should all be trolled more
🫡
But I’m not even trolling. It’s good that people get trolled. It’s good that people don’t take the internet very seriously.
No, Sounds like someone who can’t give a counter arguments, and instead reverts to crying about trolls, bots, and calling for the opposite side to be censored.
The problem is that there are trolls here and rage baiters.
Having an argument with them is their goal as it opens up discussion for them to contribute nothing and spread more division.
They aren’t trying to have a discussion but use the comment chain to spread shit for others.
The user here never called for opinions to be censored. He called for action against trolls and bots who intentionally try pushing false narratives and division
The fact you immediately jumped to argue about censorship rally evidence your own point for being here and that’s to be a shithead too
You shouldn’t have to do a fucking DOD level background check on someone typing shit on the internet…
Prolly lots of bots…
I just blocked a user, because I just kept seeing their name pop up and commenting on ‘everything’
Account created 9 months ago with 15000+ Comments That’s like 60 comments a day.
Bot or not, someone with that many comments a day needs to go outside and experience life before posting their opinion on fucking everything.
What’s even funnier (sadder let’s be honest), is some of them are memed like they are some god in some of these communities they spam relentlessly.
I feel attacked!
(j/k, keep up the good work)
I might be able to do 60 in a day but not consistantly over 9 months.
Was it Flying Squid? I see them comment multiple times in nearly every thread I’m in.
EDIT: 30,000 comments in 10 months. Jesus.
Flying squid was the guy with health issues that went to Mayo to try to get help. Spent like two weeks just waiting for appointments. On his last day there he got some good news on a diagnosis. When he came to share it people had shit all over him. We never got to find out what happened.
Died . rip good guy too from the jist of it
Title
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Or Viking Hippie, or some of the other names we’ve seen everywhere. Reminds me of maxwellhill on reddit. I don’t know how someone can read that post and then come to any other conclusion than Ghislane Maxwell was maxwellhill, but when you search maxwellhill, the articles are all refuting it while not touching on many or any of the commonalities in that thread.
Guess we’ll know when we start seeing the same few names pop up as mods for top communities.
That dude is a mod now. He roams around news communities endlessly antagonizing any user who doesn’t toe his anti-Israel stance. That’s why he has a ridiculously high comment count.
Nah they’re just an active user with good memes
Hey man, some people just shit post at work all day… and have a crippling addiction.
Nazis have been attacking Lemmy for quite awhile now. They’ve only really been finding success on a few problem instances, though.
Is it still shit and exploding heads?
I think the latter is blocked on ml but I think any conscious entity can see the former for what it is.
I believe THIS is exactly what is being talked about when they say “Russian troll farm”
I have seen this as well. Thankfully Voyager flags accounts under a certain age, so there’s an immediate visual indicator that an inflammatory comment may be just a troll.
I see. The symbol is an yellow baby
That’s a neat feature. I will request that gets added to sync.
Huh, interesting. Voyager’s one of the Lemmy apps? Is it for iOS too?
Lemmy.world actually host a voyager instance at https://m.lemmy.world/
Yeah, it’s an iOS app.
Is this on per default? How to activate it?
Thanks
AFAIK it’s on by default. I’m using the most recent iOS version, if you’re not seeing it I’d ask in the voyager community.
Just installed due to this thread.
On by default. Nice feature
