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[–] ruud@lemmy.world 386 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hot damn, you are fast. Nice job!

[–] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DudePluto@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Why haven't they been bann.... Oh, they're banned.

[–] Photographer@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Deft@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

right? some people spam their own communities daily trying to force traction in them and run like 16 communities.

like fuck off be normal.

[–] wtvr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Damn this is such a good suggestion fr

[–] s08nlql9@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

do you also ban the IP or is it too much?

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmy doesn't have an option for that but we're looking into it

[–] delirium@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] ABeeinSpace@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Jozav@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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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[–] Suspiciousbrowsing@kbin.social 122 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It blows me away that 1) people can get so buthurt 2) have the mentality of a small child.

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 88 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

It blows me away that the richest person in the world is one of those...

[–] MCForTheBest@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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[–] ScOULaris@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jeez. What a pathetic loser.

[–] Gelouse@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

I can smell the cheetos-stained fingernails from here.

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago

Oh, that guys back? Yea he has some problems. We just let him think he's doin something.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 year ago

Agreed. People still think they’re invincible on the web. Tell that to a bouncer at a club or the police. They will f*** your s*** up.

[–] reflex@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People only learn when their actions have consequences.

The sentence ... is death.

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[–] meisme@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure but this won't stop until it's not possible or worth the effort/resources. So I'm wondering if there's a technical restriction that could be put in place for such behavior. Maybe instances should just start limiting the number of new communities someone can create in a certain amount of time on their instance.

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[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] jiberish@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] TheVampireSaga@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would blocking the user also block the communities they made?

[–] Radium@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's unfortunate.

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really should, honestly.

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

I could see a case where someone creates a community, it thrives, then the creator turns out to be a butthead that needs banning. It happened to a subreddit I mod.

[–] Rawsark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago

How sad your life can be to wanting to claim com name to proove your existence?

[–] YellowtoOrange@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ddubz@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maaan, that karma whore habit is hard to drop β€” even on a site devoid of any viable analog to it. πŸ€¦πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ

[–] MCForTheBest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He made it impossible to search for wefwef before the name change

[–] tirestarter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

fortunately the name changed to Voyager. Reachable at the following URLs vger.app m.lemmy.world

community: voyager@lemmy.world

[–] teft@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vger.app? My Star Trek senses are tingling.

[–] popemichael@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

V'ger and Voyager are both Star Trek references. I assume that it was done intentionally, but it's cool with me either which way

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