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A note on Universal Monk: (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by jordanlund@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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So we've seen the complaints and the reports and boy oh boy are there complaints and reports.

I've discussed the account with the other mods and admins multiple times, and while we agree the volume is a lot, it doesn't point to a botfarm or multiple people using the account.

Obsessive? Absolutely, but not technically rule breaking... Until today.

Today they indescriminately posted the same story three times from three different sources apparently solely to flood the channel showing a decided lack of judgement.

It's a valid story from a valid source, the original has been kept here:

https://lemmy.world/post/21098916

The others have been removed as duplicates.

I'm also applying a 15 day temp ban on the account.

"15 days? That's oddly specific! What's in 15... OH!"

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

[–] pooperNickel@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

RIP. I'm sure he'll be back with alts, but here are the final stats:

UniversalMonk stats pulled 10/25/2024, 3:20:53 PM EDT

Account created 78 days ago (8/8/2024, 9:21:38 PM EDT)
6,272 submissions (= 2,017 posts + 4,255 comments)
80.4 avg submissions / day
11.9 mins avg time between submissions (assuming 8 hrs of sleep / day)
87,814 downvotes accrued (~ 1,126 downvotes / day, 0.20 u:d ratio)
- -70,379 net reputation score
- ~ 1.3 mins between downvotes on avg
- ~ 14.9 avg downvotes / submission
  - ~ 13.2 avg downvotes / comment
  - ~ 19.5 avg downvotes / post
  - ~ -11.4 avg reputation score / comment
  - ~ -13.4 avg reputation score / post

~ 16 typed pages (3,789 words) written / day

236,631 total words written as comments, 58,852 total words written in posts
~ 76 mins / day writing comments (40 wpm)
~ 32 mins / day making posts (40 wpm + 30 secs / post)

~ 140 hrs commenting/posting in 78 days, which breaks down to:

~ 108 mins / day
11.2% of their waking hours

None of this takes into account time reading others' posts/comments, or alts this user may have. See the modlog for any communities they've been banned from.

Top 5 duplicate submissions (of 914 exact matches and 683 which are 70%+ similar)

spoiler 27 x 'Thank you! :)'

27 x 'Thank you! :)'

26 x 'Thank you!'

22 x 'Yep!'

22 x 'Agreed.'

:::

Fetch user stats yourself with: https://codeberg.org/p00perNickel/lemmy-user-stats

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I do have to admit to feeling at least a little validated for having called him out way more for his pattern of behavior when it came to interactions with other users as opposed to his posts. His posts were bad but the way he engaged with anyone and everyone was downright toxic. /politics is a better place with him banned, and now Lemmy will be a better place for him being gone. I'm sure he's still out there on some platform playing the poor victim, as I doubt this was a "teachable moment", but I sincerely hope he gets help somewhere. It's cliché, but that dude had issues.

[–] pooperNickel@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I couldn't agree with you more. Thank you for calling him out. I can definitely say that comments like yours help me keep my resolve and think "it's not just me! Everyone can see it!"

If you and others hadnt kept calling him on his shit I would've eventually probably just stopped using Lemmy tbh. Users like that absolutely shit in the pool. I'm sure he'd have a lot of whining to do about how he was persecuted for having a different point of view but we all know that was bullshit. Luckily we don't have to endure that whining!

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Somebody crossed a line!

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was only a matter of time.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Taking it to PMs is a fast track to getting Admins involved and Admins do not fuck around.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@jordanlund@lemmy.world did this get reversed? Because I'm seeing posts again when I'm not signed in on a mobile client. Or did they move to another instance?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You might be seeing their posts in other communities, this ban only extends to Politics on lemmy.world.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, I was thinking that it was a ban from lemmy.world completely.

Poop.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apparently they have now been banned permanently. It's in the modlog.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do I get to that? I saw something posted yesterday by, I think by SatansMaggortyCumFart? But I can't find it again.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 69 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Good they have been trolling us for a while. Also, thank you for your efforts and you are appreciated.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (41 children)

I dunno if it's trolling. It's deluded and obsessive demonstrating a lot of free time, but, like, they're passionate about it.

I mean, they have some magical thinking and logic and I don't think their actions are actually pragmatic towards their goals, but I'm fairly certain it's genuine.

Either way, this was the right move.

Edit: ehhhhhh some other comments have shown they were acting like a troll fairly consistently. Maybe this should have been done sooner.

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[–] pooperNickel@lemm.ee 63 points 2 weeks ago (29 children)

Firstly, thank you for that ban. Did you notice the duplicate section in my comment? Low effort comments, dismissiveness, refusing to engage in good faith even when someone treats him very respectively, and copy-pasting the same responses many times is only one of several signs this is a troll. This behavior breaks rule 4.

No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive.

I do not understand how anyone could possibly look at the evidence I provided and say "nah, not a troll".

For your convenience:

Top 10 duplicate (total 617 exact and 318 fuzzy, 70% or more similar) submissions from UniversalMonk@lemmy.world found.

spoiler 'Thank you!' x 27

'Yep!' x 24

spoiler 'k' x 23

'Agreed!' x 21

spoiler 'I don't know what you mean.' x 20

'I don't have to explain anything to you. Thanks!' x 14

spoiler 'Right?' x 13

'Every vote for Harris is stealing a vote from thir...' x 12

spoiler 'Exactly!' x 11

'To cut through the nonsense and save everyone time...' x 10

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is really timely - I am sharing a screenshot that may be important.

UniversalMonk appears to have created an alt last week, UbiquitousMonk. I saw an initial flurry of posts following the UniversalMonk format 12 minutes after it happened, but knew it was a different account and not just a rename because I had to re-add my "propaganda" tag in my Connect app.

I commented just noting the flurry of third-party posts as odd, and they responded with something in Russian. Then everything was deleted, comments and posts.

I don't know if that was meant as satire, if it was the same poster, or - maybe - a mistake and the Russian text is evidence of a misinformation campaign origin. I'm sharing the comment screenshot for mod visibility.

Edit: sorry, I can't embed this image, so here's the link: https://imgur.com/a/9wzgSxR

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[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good, thank you for addressing this! I think the temporary ban is a perfect solution. I only care about this because of how close we are to the election, and this solves that problem.

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