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Will LW PLEASE do something (ANYTHING!) about that obnoxious hit-and-run account? (startrek.website)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/support@lemmy.world

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See title.

The same person creates a new account every few hours, posts a bunch of stuff, and self deletes. They've been doing it for months or more.

I get you can't just patch the software to limit deleting, but maybe run a script to detect deleted accounts. If they're less than 6 hours old, ban with content removal?

Edit: Apparently, shortly after posting this, federation from Lemmy.World stopped to my home instance and it's now well over 100,000 activities behind. I guess that's something 😆

Here's a very non-comprehensive list of the ones I've seen:

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[–] Jerry@feddit.online 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One option is to switch to a PieFed instance running V 1.3.6. The devs did something about this for PieFed users that should help.

v1.3.6
Stop floods of spammy posts from very new accounts on lemmy.world.
New accounts (< 24h old) from lemmy.world are now limited to 3 posts in their first day.

V1.3.3
Automatically delete posts by very young accounts that self-delete.

piefed.social and feddit.online are two that are running the latest code. I'm sure there are others.

Yeah, that person is quite annoying.

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This doesn't really solve the problem. This person used to scramble/delete their own content in the past before they went to delete the entire accounts.

They're a rather persistent ban evader who can't accept not being welcome in some spaces on the internet. Even before they started deleting accounts they already used multiple accounts to evade bans.

I'd be happy to hear suggestions for addressing this without essentially banning all new accounts. Preventing new accounts from participating will only result in them aging accounts for a bit before usage and discouraging legitimate new users from participating.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

When I modded reddit subs I always had a karma minimum to post, it seemed to drastically reduce bullshit posts. It wasn’t even very high, like 100.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Preventing new accounts from participating will only result in them aging accounts for a bit before usage and discouraging legitimate new users from participating.

Exactly.