• Ruud@lemmy.worldM
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    The user was banned immediately. Also rate limiting has been put in place on community creation. (Removing the communities takes some time however…)

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        It happened at least a week ago and the user was banned at the same time

        OP is just reposting after the issue was already fixed.

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          Yeah even if this is a new new account of the same user, we could do without the why haven’t they been banned yet. I think we can all agree it takes time for the admins to notice these things - and they’re volunteers anyway. They need some leeway

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      Can we have a hard limit on community moderation so we never end up with POWER MODS which were one of the worst things about Reddit moderation.

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          I guess it’s achievable with hosting you’re using (with nginx ip block list for example if you’re using it)

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            What you’re looking for is functionality like fail2ban, but probably with a filter set to the HTTP endpoint for creating communities. Not sure if it will work, I haven’t really looked into the Lemmy code/architecture yet.

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            If they’re using Cloudflare it can do this too. Even the free tier, you can have one monstrously long WAF rule to ban a bunch of IPs

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          Spammers with a little bit of sanity in them will use VPN providers. The consequence is that IP banning effectively results in blocking VPN servers. For people like me, using VPN connections for genuine reasons (like a provider/government that cannot be trusted), this is problematic

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          I used to use stuff that had IP banning and it would just mean when I was on mobile data I would just randomly not be able to use it because some dick was wanding around getting IP banned using mobile data.

          People warrant IP banning userly are sad enough to find way of circumventing it and it’ll probably just makes issues for other users instead.

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        It’s so easy to change your IP address. All you’ll end up doing is banning a dynamic IP that someone else will get at some point

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      Having lived through the last 20 years, neither of those surprise me at all anymore lmao

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      That’s not the mentality of a small child that’s the mentality of someone who actively refuses to take their medicine. There definitely has to be some underlying problem with them, if I were this mad I 1. wouldn’t do this and 2. would be over it within 2 minutes at most. This user can get fucked.

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        It actually might more be the dumbass thinks it’s like the guy who got domains for big companies in the early web and then sold them to them.

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      Seems he’s been trying to mess with any instance he gets an account on, I know sh.itjust.works was spammed with “LMAO” communities as well as one other instance iirc

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        Can’t even imagine why someone would waste their time like this. The instance is basically a non profit run by volunteers who believe in the technology…so let me just spend hours of my life trying to be a dick to them

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    They should be charged for trying to attack a service using malicious practices. People only learn when their actions have consequences.

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    Hexbear had a nerd like this in the first year, must have been 3 years ago now. They spammed John Kerry pictures and did it every single day for like 10 months.

    Serious waste of time/life.

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    Is there a way to add this as a bug or feature request list for Lemmy? This seems like a concern that will need to be addressed at some point in the future. Maybe opening up communities created by banned users. Or adding a feature where users can report rogue moderators and allow communities to be liberated from rulers who become malicious or have their account hacked?

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    this makes it more or less impossible to search for Communities with numbers in the name at least for me because they have random strings of numbers in the description.

    • 👽🍻👽@lemmy.world
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      Ruud took care of it a week ago. They answered elsewhere in the thread. OP posted this without bothering to check if it had been handled.

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        Maaan, that karma whore habit is hard to drop — even on a site devoid of any viable analog to it. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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          I wouldn’t attribute it to karma whoring and more to just being uninformed. Anyways, “Karma” exists on Lemmy, it’s just not displayed explicitly on the website and you’d need an app for it that shows the count (e.g. wefwef/voyager which shows your comment/post score).

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    Why was the dude banned for reserving community names? Did they actively refuse to moderate them?