I swear, every time most of the time I see someone being particularly rude, ignorant, and inappropriate on a post (usually political in origin, or they swing it to being political) I click on their profile and see it has been created that same day.

They are only there to sow discord. Only to piss people off. Idk if we can just report them (for what?) but I’d like to try exposing them before responding and interacting…

I am guilty of gobbling up the bait. I’ve started looking at profiles of people that piss me off exceptionally and noticed they’re burner bot loser accounts.

I guess i just want to say I’ve noticed it!

    • 18-24-61-B-17-17-4@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      7 months ago

      Was it Flying Squid? I see them comment multiple times in nearly every thread I’m in.

      EDIT: 30,000 comments in 10 months. Jesus.

      • Today@lemmy.world
        71·
        7 months ago

        Flying squid was the guy with health issues that went to Mayo to try to get help. Spent like two weeks just waiting for appointments. On his last day there he got some good news on a diagnosis. When he came to share it people had shit all over him. We never got to find out what happened.

      • Syn_Attck@lemmy.today
        4·
        7 months ago

        Or Viking Hippie, or some of the other names we’ve seen everywhere. Reminds me of maxwellhill on reddit. I don’t know how someone can read that post and then come to any other conclusion than Ghislane Maxwell was maxwellhill, but when you search maxwellhill, the articles are all refuting it while not touching on many or any of the commonalities in that thread.

        Guess we’ll know when we start seeing the same few names pop up as mods for top communities.

      • sailingbythelee@lemmy.world
        714·
        7 months ago

        That dude is a mod now. He roams around news communities endlessly antagonizing any user who doesn’t toe his anti-Israel stance. That’s why he has a ridiculously high comment count.

    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
      43·
      7 months ago

      What’s even funnier (sadder let’s be honest), is some of them are memed like they are some god in some of these communities they spam relentlessly.