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Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How do you even see karma?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh the cool people are long gone /s

[–] [email protected] 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.