Edit, since people are now seeing this post who did not see the the reason for it:
At the time of creating and posting this, there was an account that was created using a well known username and spamming extremly transphobic hate posts. Some users were starting to interact with this very obvious troll, so I thought it might be a good idea to generally remind people how to treat these trolls. This is not about some light hearted banter or good faith jokes, this is about trolls that are truly only about spreading hate.
That person really has a hate boner for the 2 people they are impersonating.
Lemmy has about 100 active users and seven of them are 50 of them.
I actively run 12 accounts, myself! You wouldn’t believe how much self-arguing we do!
this is a joke
Okay but do you ever lose an argument?
Oddly enough, every single one.
Nice try, pal.
You guys are hilarious. /eyeroll
You’d really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and be an asshole?
Countertrolling is more fun, though :(
You can’t countertroll someone who’s just spitting hate.
You vastly underestimate my abilities
Ok, Anakin.
are you okay anakin?
What if their untrue statement is purely for a really good pun?
I won’t feed the trolls, but you (moderation) will in part need to remove them from under the bridges and banish them from the town squares. You may even have to remove them from your own ranks.
If you block a troll, then you will no longer be able to report or monitor their bad behavior. So the problem isn’t solved.
Surely not seeing their content does fix the problem.
- This person’s comments and posts are making my experience worse
- block
- no longer see their comments and posts
- experience no longer being damaged by their comments and posts.
Right, obviously blocking works for individuals. Just not for the wider community, as banning does.
… yes… which is why both tools exist, and why you should report people who break community rules before blocking them.
This isn’t complicated. I don’t have to block anyone and none of you can make me. I have my reasons.
Ps. I have a healthy blocklist and don’t need the weird preaching anyhow.
Are you … just looking to pick a fight?
No, you don’t need to block anyone, but blocking is a useful and important tool.
Yes I’m insisting on fighting. /s
Kinda like you’re insisting I block people even after I explained a rational reason that some people don’t immediately block them
That’s why the steps are ordered this way. First report, then block. And if you want to, you can view the reported post while logged out, check modlogs, etc.
I meant future bad behavior. A lot of people view blocking as a last resort and I think that’s a valid viewpoint.
Just read my post text. This is about accoints that usually should get banned outright anyway.
I block for my mental health. Bad behavior is for the moderators to worry about. I got enough shit going on in my life to be a vigilante on lemmy.
They using new one day accounts that will be deleted in 24 hours, so its useless to block them
<.< This is an odd observation to be posted with a one day old account… 😅
Do you mean those types of people by the term trolls who often post nonsense stuff like this for no reason or nah?(I don’t understand):
To quote myself:
spamming extremly transphobic hate posts
and
this is about trolls that are truly only about spreading hate.
Not sure what is hard to understand about this.
I needed this today
well the fact that as human being myself I don’t know everything that you do and the fact that I don’t hear the word troll as in that sense often that’s why it was hard for me to understand
I can’t help it! They’re trying to convince people voting is bad.
