@LMAO is flooding the site with random communities because they’re salty about being banned for claiming too many community names. They claim they’re trying to “fuck your entire site up” but I imagine it’s a relatively quick fix to delete all the communities they’re creating, LMAO.
Looking at his profile
Since you banned my main for claiming community names, I’ll just fuck your entire site up instead. Much love, Angled
Yeah can’t imagine why an instance admin might not want this insufferable piece of shit in their instance.
Maybe admins should restrict community creation for a few days.
Idk, seems like this is quite a pivotal time with an influx of users. Be a shame to have the potential growth in community go to waste.
True, but they could limit community creation to, say, five a day. That would be more than the vast majority of people would legitimately need.
Unfortunately that would mean that real communities wouldn’t be created since that would be used up by someone creating spam communities. Though, maybe limiting the amount of communities that could be made by one account in a certain amount of time? What about verification by email (to send a coherent reason) to the admins to create a community.
I was meaning five per day for a given user. That’s why I said that would be plenty for most individuals - most people aren’t legitimately going to want to create more than five communities in a day, and for them it wouldn’t be a hardship to wait a day for another five. But for people like this guy, trying to flood the instance with endless/pointless communities, it would cut that down to a manageable number.
Growth for the sake of growth is why reddit and everything else crashes and burns.
Counterpoint: we don’t need growth if the cost is the destruction of a good thing. Guided growth is smarter and more sustainable especially when users like the subject of this post aren’t unique. There are a lot of small, mean-spirited people out there who will take a dump all over everything the moment they can.
So, it seems a few childish knobs came in with the refugees. Had to know it would happen.
first showing door to nazis, then spammers, then salty time wasters. looks like speedrunning history of internet in reverse
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Kick them all out. No exceptions.
This is who we’re leaving behind at Reddit. Salty little baby
drop * from communities where creator == @lmao
It’s u/spez!!
The most annoying thing is that the “Trending Communities” section is filled with spam right now.
I think this does show an
inherentcurrent flaw with Lemmy. We need a way to report users through their profile. So far we can only report users when they comment, but this guy isn’t commenting anywhere so there’s no report button. Unless I’m missing something. :pThat’s not an “inherent flaw”. It’s a flaw that currently exists in Lemmy, but one that could be easily remedied with a patch that adds a “report” link to the profile. An inherent flaw would be one that is difficult or impossible to mitigate due to the concept of Lemmy.
Yup, fair enough, I’ll edit it!
What a loser, LMAO
Why even delete those communities? Just let’em have their three megabytes of database space that gets never used and be done with it.
Because they will show up in the communities list and be propagated (in the list) across federated instances.
What a loser. I can’t imagine being this salty about this entire situation. Suck that tiny spez pig dick I guess.
inb4 it’s spez’s account
I’m betting it’s some bigot upset that this instance defederated from one they like and/or run.
There’s one in particular that was pretty big and just got defederated from most major instances.
They’re mad others don’t have to see their shit now
There’s a pretty big “dank” community that’s pretty much just racism that I’ve already blocked
Yeah, I feel like in addition to people choosing to leave reddit, a bunch of bigots who have been up banned from reddit are trying to come to Lemmy too.
I’d like to see something where admins have to opt in to generating rather than the current arraignment where all it takes is one user following any community for it to happen.
I had a feeling that’s what the “dank” in “dank memes” meant back on Reddit when I couldn’t get a straight answer from the mods there about what made a dankmeme dank and not just a meme, as it didn’t have anything to do with moisture or weed. The memes themselves were mostly just reposted from regular memes; but the comments were flaming piles of shit covered tires.
How about just make it impossible to mod/create more than 3?
I actually like this idea. The prevention of supermods like AwkwardtheTurtle is absolutely something that should be considered.
When people previously discussed this on Lemmy, the concern would be that bad actors would create multiple accounts to get around that rule.
But again, the lock on a door doesn’t guarantee your house won’t get broken into, it only has to deter them with extra effort/risk that they will be less likely to do it.
I honestly can’t imagine modding more than 2 communities at once. Do these people not have real lives?
paid trolls are a thing…
Of course, like I said, it doesn’t need to keep out everyone, just preventing the lowest effort trolls would make life a lot easier for the mods/admins.
Don’t let perfection stand in the way of progress.
The rotten apples are starting to appear, eh? *sigh, oh well.
They’re not getting their jollies harassing people at reddit anymore. Remember, to them any attention is good attention. Employ child psychology because that’s where their mind is stuck.
Yep. Same reason why they won’t just hang out at places like 4chan, Truth Social, etc.
The libruls they want to “own” are here. They’re leaving Reddit because Reddit’s going to become a Nazi bar, seeing that half the mods left, and the other have had their tools nerfed. When the libs are gone, they get bored.
Mod of a city subreddit, here. That’s basically my fear. I love that community, but it’s become impossible to mod, and I have no doubt the absolutely worst people on the internet are going to be the majority of redditors eventually.
They don’t deserve their jollies, but they do deserve their jolly ranchers.
I did not want to think about that today. Yet here we are.
How don’t these fuckwits realize this place doesn’t want them? Stay over in the trash heap where you belong.
It’s probably pure trolling just like the old internet. People are riled up over reddit and stoking the flames a classic recipe for pure lulz
A simple captcha for community creation would prevent this
I feel like the little “write why” box that some instances have for account creation would be well fit for this. But for creating communities, or atleast for big instances to keep them from having tons of ghost communities.
As someone who’s new to lemmy, could someone explain who is in charge of policing and moderating community names like this? With reddit it’s obv Admins but who has that level of power here?
The instance owner/admins are in charge of that. They’re kind of equivalent to the Reddit admins, except if you don’t like the instance admins you can go to a different Lemmy instance but you can’t move to a new Reddit instance. Also, community names are unique to each instance, so [email protected] and [email protected] share the same name but are two separate communities in two separate instances.
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Basically, this guy was spamming communities not instances. Basically he spammed a ton of subreddits. The guys who run the instance are above him and can just ban him and delete all of his communities.
