So, I started blocking accounts that don’t engage with the stuff I post and just make personal attacks. After blocking these handful of accounts all the harassment stopped entirely. Vast majority of people on the lemmyverse are across different instances aren’t attacking other people. There are just a handful of really active trolls out there, and I think the best policy might be to just start blocking them when we see them.
- @bigstupidn3gger@narwhal.city
- @erdos4d@lemmy.ml
- @hitlerdidnowrong@lemmy.tedomum.net
- @lordofbud@lemmy.ml
- @thanos_snapped@lemmy.ml
- @mykhaylo@fosstodon.org
- @FireMyth@lemmy.one
- @chebra@mstdn.io
- @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
- @TWeaK@lemm.ee
- @b3nsn0w@pricefield.org
- @SeaJ@lemm.ee
- @BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
- @AdamantlyAdam@newsie.social
- @Vilian@lemmy.ca
The funniest part is when one of these guys won’t write a comment, but will just go and downvote every single comment on a post. Like yeah, that’s a great use of your time there buddy.
Something I noticed is when I comment on a “controversial” post over on lemmy World News or something, there’s a ripple effect of downvotes in my post history. It’s like everything 5-6 posts back will get instantly downvoted if I say something crazy like “all Russians aren’t evil”, regardless of what the preceding posts were about. Doesn’t seem like a great use of their time, because I really don’t care. I only noticed by random chance when I was adjusting some stuff in my profile.
We should have a thread where we post any troll accounts we encounter on the Fediverse so we can block them. Kind of a masterpost.
I think that the moderators should do this more actively. I haven’t been here for to long, but already saw a lot of trolling/Sealioning. Sometimes it gets really annoying.
I do think it would be good to have a policy to ban users who show a pattern of not engaging constructively.
We have been banning liberals liberally. Some trolls are good at their job and are able to bait ten or so replies with low effort regurgitation of PragerU level talking points before getting reported.
i do the same… i don’t want to spend my time arguing with people who are just arguing in bad faith, and i don’t want to spend time arguing with people who want to nitpick and tell me what i can and cannot say according to their own personal opinions
the internet is a big place with so many possibilities… I’m not going to feel bad about blocking people at all
edit: having said that last bit i realize I’m guilty of nitpicking things that annoy me but i never tell anyone they cannot say this or that thing
