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Will LW PLEASE do something (ANYTHING!) about that obnoxious hit-and-run account? (startrek.website)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/support@lemmy.world
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See title.

The same person creates a new account every few hours, posts a bunch of stuff, and self deletes. They've been doing it for months or more.

I get you can't just patch the software to limit deleting, but maybe run a script to detect deleted accounts. If they're less than 6 hours old, ban with content removal?

Edit: Apparently, shortly after posting this, federation from Lemmy.World stopped to my home instance and it's now well over 100,000 activities behind. I guess that's something ๐Ÿ˜†

Here's a very non-comprehensive list of the ones I've seen:

  1. https://lemmy.world/u/TheDwZ (Pretty sure this is the "account zero" original)
  2. https://lemmy.world/u/balal
  3. https://lemmy.world/u/Vanayo
  4. https://lemmy.world/u/bax2
  5. https://lemmy.world/u/nehare
  6. https://lemmy.world/u/sixeyo
  7. https://lemmy.world/u/sijifec
  8. https://lemmy.world/u/palih
  9. https://lemmy.org/u/Vadalian
  10. https://lemmy.world/u/fraiserouge
  11. https://lemmy.world/u/sededor
  12. https://lemmy.world/u/Wazay
  13. https://lemmy.world/u/dwouu
  14. https://lemmy.world/u/vipec
  15. https://lemmy.world/u/kapanig
  16. https://lemmy.world/u/Dwuriii
  17. https://lemmy.world/u/Tasey
  18. https://lemmy.world/u/eten
  19. https://lemmy.world/u/gipoc
  20. https://lemmy.world/u/Yecoh
  21. https://lemmy.world/u/vowije
  22. https://lemmy.world/u/Voyarel
  23. https://lemmy.world/u/Dwazoupp
  24. https://lemmy.world/u/cogih
  25. https://lemmy.world/u/Sayaf
  26. https://lemmy.world/u/foga
  27. https://lemmy.world/u/Valyri
  28. https://lemmy.world/u/wino
  29. https://lemmy.world/u/fraeli
  30. https://lemmy.world/u/vanes
  31. https://lemmy.world/u/henaw2
  32. https://lemmy.world/u/fiye
  33. https://lemmy.world/u/helmi125
  34. https://lemmy.world/u/jicin
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[โ€“] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Most fixes I can think of would effectively be a one move blunder, where the opponent's move is extremely obvious and only leaves us in a worse position.

The only real fix I can think of is to require everyone to sign in with a Steam account that has spent > $200 or similar.

[โ€“] Emopunker@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Since the problem is ongoing, why not do some temporary manual vetting of accounts? Or is there a function to just prevent account from posting for a few days and they can only comment?

[โ€“] cannedtuna@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

Absolute genius! Finally all those summer/winter sales are paying off