Today I noticed a huge wall of spam from UniversalMonk from 2 different accounts and didn’t initially think much of it and blocked their communities but more spam came from different communities.
At this point I checked and saw that they had created several communities which then led me down the rabbit hole to discover that their posts had almost entirely covered the new posts page of both sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee. Later on I discovered that they’re posting right-wing propaganda and misinformation from breitbart, foxnews you name it.
He’s already caused and stirred shit 2 months ago and clearly I can see why now.
At this point it’s difficult to believe that UniversalMonk will learn proper netiquette in: not post spamming, being considerate to others, and not sharing right-wing extremist content that no one wants.
I… what? I thought a link you could click, and a specific thing to Ctrl-F for to find the specific entry, would be “evidence”, but if you want some evidence in image format, that’s cool too.
Harassing in private messages:
Other assorted behavior:
That’s only from the first two pages of the modlog, it keeps going. That’s also not all of it, just some stuff that’s pretty self-explanatory in the screenshot, and a good variety of different types of things he likes to do.
They dealt with him at length trying to do temp bans and just remove the content when he did this stuff, and talk to him and be reasonable with him, for far longer than I would have. Eventually they figured out they had to permaban him. That’s when he started making new accounts and further hyped up his banner talking about how his enemies were trying to silence him but he remained unbroken.
Well first of all, thank you for doing that. I can see he was banned for harassing users in PMs, but without knowing the content of the PMs, that doesn’t mean too much to me.
I’m looking for stuff like hate speech and serious toxicity, not just running afoul of various moderation rules. The spamming of comments is mildly annoying, but again nothing major in my eyes. Posting in the wrong communities, getting banned from lemmy.ml communities, this is pedestrian stuff when it comes to being a moderator.
I’ve seen people post absolutely horrific, disgusting things on here. They would get banned immediately, and then continue to create new accounts and post the same horrific shit. That’s what banning on sight/IP banning is for, not for this middling stuff.
Most importantly, he seems to have learned from this and is no longer doing those things on his SJW account. Have you considered the possibility that his behavior escalated in such a way because he was repeatedly being moderated for minor reasons, and thus began to act out in increasingly disruptive ways? Perhaps he has been less problematic on his SJW account because we let him do his own thing so long as it’s not bothering our users and generating tons of reports, which it isn’t.
You are, of course, welcome to your opinion and to run your instance however you like. Moderators from both lemmy.ca and lemmy.world have stepped into these comments to tell you that he is a problem, and the new steady flow of abrasive political posts he’s been doing recently in his own little corner of sh.itjust.works is likely to continue and escalate, to no one’s benefit. That’s my opinion.
If someone’s reaction to being moderated, whether fairly or unfairly, is to “act out,” and you feel like catering to them so they won’t feel the need to do that, then you and he deserve one another. I just feel bad for your users who will have to deal with this guy’s crap.
I’m not catering to anybody. Not to you guys, and certainly not to him. He’s subject to the same rules as any other SJW user.
In my opinion, it would make more sense for you guys to be responding to the absurdity of the OP asking for a permaban across all Lemmy servers, rather than dedicating your efforts to chastising me for being skeptical of that plan. But instead, OP got 200 upvotes and a bunch of highly upvoted bloodthirsty comments in full agreement, and I’m the one who has to prove the validity of my entirely reasonable position one painstaking comment at a time. But you have at least acknowledged my points, which is more than I’ve come to expect, so I’ll take it.
Why do you think such a large amount of people upvoted this? Based on the comments, a lot of people ran into him at some point, and the vast consensus is that he should be at least blocked, if not banned.
I saw you mentioning above that all of the commenters could be OP’s alt, are you serious on this? All of these accounts are well known commenters, with years old accounts and plenty of comments.
Do you think Lemmy.ca and LW admins would be agree to ban a user without doing their due diligence? This is why OP is asking for a Lemmy wide ban, because this user is known for ban evasion: https://sh.itjust.works/post/31017252/16043527
Also btw I had to use my SJW account to comment here as the first commenter used a lemmynsfw account, that quite a lot of instances defederate. You might not get feedback from a high number of people on this specific thread due to this.
The lemmy.world moderation team was highly negligent in letting him go on as long as he did there. He was posting multiple posts of thousands of words of bizarre horror-story erotica where his enemies on Lemmy would get their comeuppance, and swearing innocently that he was just doing some creative writing, nothing about anybody in particular, and they were still saying “Yes, yes, we need this in our community, what a creative young man.”
That was just the erotic friend fiction that all well-adjusted people write.