So we’ve seen the complaints and the reports and boy oh boy are there complaints and reports.
I’ve discussed the account with the other mods and admins multiple times, and while we agree the volume is a lot, it doesn’t point to a botfarm or multiple people using the account.
Obsessive? Absolutely, but not technically rule breaking… Until today.
Today they indescriminately posted the same story three times from three different sources apparently solely to flood the channel showing a decided lack of judgement.
It’s a valid story from a valid source, the original has been kept here:
https://lemmy.world/post/21098916
The others have been removed as duplicates.
I’m also applying a 15 day temp ban on the account.
“15 days? That’s oddly specific! What’s in 15… OH!”
RIP. I’m sure he’ll be back with alts, but here are the final stats:
UniversalMonk stats pulled 10/25/2024, 3:20:53 PM EDT
87,814 downvotes accrued (~ 1,126 downvotes / day, 0.20 u:d ratio)
~ 16 typed pages (3,789 words) written / day
None of this takes into account time reading others’ posts/comments, or alts this user may have. See the modlog for any communities they’ve been banned from.
Top 5 duplicate submissions (of 914 exact matches and 683 which are 70%+ similar)
27 x 'Thank you! :)'
27 x 'Thank you! :)'
26 x 'Thank you!'
22 x 'Yep!'
22 x 'Agreed.'
Fetch user stats yourself with: https://codeberg.org/p00perNickel/lemmy-user-stats
I do have to admit to feeling at least a little validated for having called him out way more for his pattern of behavior when it came to interactions with other users as opposed to his posts. His posts were bad but the way he engaged with anyone and everyone was downright toxic. /politics is a better place with him banned, and now Lemmy will be a better place for him being gone. I’m sure he’s still out there on some platform playing the poor victim, as I doubt this was a “teachable moment”, but I sincerely hope he gets help somewhere. It’s cliché, but that dude had issues.
I couldn’t agree with you more. Thank you for calling him out. I can definitely say that comments like yours help me keep my resolve and think “it’s not just me! Everyone can see it!”
If you and others hadnt kept calling him on his shit I would’ve eventually probably just stopped using Lemmy tbh. Users like that absolutely shit in the pool. I’m sure he’d have a lot of whining to do about how he was persecuted for having a different point of view but we all know that was bullshit. Luckily we don’t have to endure that whining!
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