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Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I swear, ~~every time~~ most of the time I see someone being particularly rude, ignorant, and inappropriate on a post (usually political in origin, or they swing it to being political) I click on their profile and see it has been created that same day.

They are only there to sow discord. Only to piss people off. Idk if we can just report them (for what?) but I'd like to try exposing them before responding and interacting..

I am guilty of gobbling up the bait. I've started looking at profiles of people that piss me off exceptionally and noticed they're burner bot loser accounts.

I guess i just want to say I've noticed it!

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Shoutout to Voyager, for automatically marking new accounts with a baby emoji. It’s a feature ripped straight from Apollo, and it should honestly be the standard.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

This app has a lot of great features, it actually convinced me to sign up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wefwef also has it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Wefwef is Voyager under a different name. It’s literally the same app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Is there a reason to have one over the other?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was going to say I would be happy if just the Lemmy website allowed you to filter out comments based on the age of the account of the comment being made, but a lot of times accounts are created then are left dormant for sixish months and then are used for nefarious reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, even filtering by karma/post count/comment count isn’t a perfect solution because karma farming bots are 100% a thing. It’s one of those “you can slow them down but you’ll never stop them” scenarios.