The user was banned immediately. Also rate limiting has been put in place on community creation. (Removing the communities takes some time however…)
Hot damn, you are fast. Nice job!
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.
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
Why haven’t they been banned yet?
Since you banned my main for…
Why haven’t they been bann… Oh, they’re banned.
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.
right? some people spam their own communities daily trying to force traction in them and run like 16 communities.
like fuck off be normal.
Damn this is such a good suggestion fr
do you also ban the IP or is it too much?
Lemmy doesn’t have an option for that but we’re looking into it
I guess it’s achievable with hosting you’re using (with nginx ip block list for example if you’re using it)
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.
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
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
I used to use stuff that had IP banning and it would just mean when I was on mobile data I would just randomly not be able to use it because some dick was wanding around getting IP banned using mobile data.
People warrant IP banning userly are sad enough to find way of circumventing it and it’ll probably just makes issues for other users instead.
It’s so easy to change your IP address. All you’ll end up doing is banning a dynamic IP that someone else will get at some point
It blows me away that 1) people can get so buthurt 2) have the mentality of a small child.
Having lived through the last 20 years, neither of those surprise me at all anymore lmao
It blows me away that the richest person in the world is one of those…
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.
It actually might more be the dumbass thinks it’s like the guy who got domains for big companies in the early web and then sold them to them.
Teenagers can be little shits though
Jeez. What a pathetic loser.
I can smell the cheetos-stained fingernails from here.
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
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
Oh, that guys back? Yea he has some problems. We just let him think he’s doin something.
They should be charged for trying to attack a service using malicious practices. People only learn when their actions have consequences.
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.
People only learn when their actions have consequences.
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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.
I think one of admins commented saying he added in the last thing, saying there’s a delay but it takes time to delete the existing spam communities
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.
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?
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.
Would blocking the user also block the communities they made?
It really should, honestly.
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.
No
That’s unfortunate.
How sad your life can be to wanting to claim com name to proove your existence?
He made it impossible to search for wefwef before the name change
fortunately the name changed to Voyager. Reachable at the following URLs vger.app m.lemmy.world
community: voyager@lemmy.world
Vger.app? My Star Trek senses are tingling.
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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Ban his ass already
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.
Maaan, that karma whore habit is hard to drop — even on a site devoid of any viable analog to it. 🤦🏼♂️
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).
Connect does it too
That seems off.
Why was the dude banned for reserving community names? Did they actively refuse to moderate them?
Inversely, why tolerate squatting? If you want to build the community up, great, but reserving is stupid if it isn’t done in good faith
Very well, but is a ban an appropriate punishment?
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Why wouldn’t a ban for willfully malicious behavior be appropriate? What would you suggest as an alternative
Only if there were warnings - if there weren’t, wtf
Holy fucking based! Keep going at it community creating king :marseykingcrown:
