If you see around any individual interacting with others through strange antics, displaying weird or troll-like behavior, bot behavior, or similar, either on Lemmygrad or Lemmy, feel free to publish a people’s court case about them if you think they are negatively affecting the Lemmygrad community as a whole.

The usual best way to fight trolls is indifference. So if you think someone is constantly annoying, please block them, and if possible, publicly express your dissatisfaction, so that everyone is aware.

Some trolls like Wisconcom can cause a major disruption in our community, and that’s when we usually step in debating about the issue publicly. You are free to do so in People’s Court as well, it’s the place to collectively solve perceived problems within our community. You are also free to criticize the actions of the administrators,[1] under public scrutiny.

  1. criticize our actions, not our political positions. This would be perhaps more appropriate in Leftist Infighting ↩︎

  • alunyanneгs 🏳️‍⚧️♀️
    23•1 year ago

    However it seems they have reduced posting or outright stopped and so we figured we’d let this slide for a bit. But this is temporary and the choice is binary: essentially the decision in front of us is, do we ban this account for trolling, or do we let it be?

    To me, they just came across as an over-excited person that does not know forum ettiquettes very much. Therefore, I say let them be; but teach them about forum ettiquette (for example, simply making a post with a video link would’ve sufficed rather than spamming video links on replies)

    If they still continue this type of behavior after this, then you might consider punishing them in some way.

    We don’t want to accidentally make a comrade feel unwelcome.