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 ↩︎

  • CriticalResist8A
    23·
    2 years ago

    This reminder post was made after we’d been seeing an account named OyJon Ibrohimov pop up everywhere on Lemmygrad. You’ve probably seen them too, considering they have totalised almost 500 comments in merely 6 days on Lemmy.

    We were considering making a court case for them as we weren’t sure how to proceed as the admin team. In our experience, people that behave like that (I’ll explain in a second) tend to be either very young (not the case as they gave us our age on their lemmygrad application), neurodivergent, or trolling.

    We were leaning towards trolling but we also don’t want to ban a neurodivergent comrade just for comments.

    When I say like that, I mean making comment after comment just to seemingly fill up space. Saying in 50 words what could be said in 10. Talking in a roundabout way, seemingly never reaching a conclusion, etc etc.

    In our experience those are trolls, but this user would have to be a very committed troll.

    We have to add that we have seen some comments by this user that did give rise to suspicion, and we had to go through their application spam before they were vetted on Lemmy.ml – around 10 accounts or so, copy pasted (written in 4 languages for some reason). This made our trolley senses go on high alert and we rejected all of them. Thing is in one thread they said they didn’t know why they could not log in to their lemmygrad account, but we had not yet rejected some of them. This means the user made a couple applications while theirs were still in vetting. Now I agree the error message is not very clear (it should say “your application is still being considered” but it just says “error: could not log in”), but still, you’d expect that if you can’t login after you filled a questionnaire, it means you’re still being vetted, right?

    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?

    Believe it or not we’ve been debating whether to open this thread for several days. So I guess the question is, what’s your impression and what’s your recommandation?

    • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩 [she]
      23·
      2 years 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.

    • Camarada ForteOPMA
      21·
      2 years ago

      Quote from the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, a handbook written by the Office of Strategic Services, intelligence agency prior to the current CIA:

      General interference with organizations and production

      1. Organizations and Conferences

        1. Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
        2. Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate “patriotic” comments.
        3. When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five.
        4. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
        5. Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
        6. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
        7. Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
        8. Be worried about the propriety of any decision—raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.

      Something to be learned from Wisconcom and similar types

      • CITRUS
        14·
        2 years ago

        A lot of these sound like things I do, and last I checked Im not a Fed (I sure hope not), but then again I am pretty high on the ND scale, soooo.

        • Catradora-Stalinism☭
          17·
          2 years ago

          Wait, you aren’t a fed? Then who are you? If the rest of us are feds and you’re not-

          wait-

          that means-

          WE HAVE A CODE RED! ACTUAL COMMUNIST DETECTED! WE GOT ONE LADS!

          • CITRUS
            12·
            2 years ago

            XD XD XD XD XD

            I knew I should have never trusted you guys, of course the US state department would want us to support those ebil commies, you guys want to let evil Xinnie the Pooh invade and take away our freedom! You were all in kahoots!

            I should have just stayed an enlightened liberallllllllllllll

            🤣

            No but seriously, what if I have obtained an actual ML education because a bunch of feds accidentally gave it to me! I can’t stop laughing at the thought!

            • Catradora-Stalinism☭
              10·
              2 years ago

              No but seriously, what if I have obtained an actual ML education because a bunch of feds accidentally gave it to me! I can’t stop laughing at the thought!

              DAMMIT WE WERE TOO GOOD! GO BACK TO REDDIT OR ELSE WE WILL-

              um

              uh

              huh

              I don’t actually know what to do, we weren’t prepared for an actual communist to be here!

              um

              SEND US ALL OF YOUR INFORMATION AND TELL US CRIMES YOU DID! SO WE CAN ARREST YOU! HA!

              • CITRUS
                10·
                2 years ago

                You’ll never take me alive!!!

                this account no longer exists

      • CriticalResist8A
        13·
        2 years ago

        Worst case scenarios we allow ourselves to directly DM users and sanction them for things that are not necessarily spelled out in the rules – like we’ve had to for harassing behaviour or ban evasion. Lemmygrad is still small enough that we know pretty much every user so it’s something we can still do for the time being.

      • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩 [she]
        13·
        2 years ago

        also judging by the things he’s been following us since we left Reddit, through all this time I guess he was lurking and never bothered to join until now?

        he’s just like me omg

      • redtea
        13·
        2 years ago

        I probably agree with this.

        I’ll also add that I was a bit concerned with some of their (not Binkie55) comments that were too close to being pro personal terrorism or violence against named individuals. (I cannot find the examples at the moment to check how close they were.)

        I know there is a history of some users being banned from Reddit for saying that slavers deserve what they get, etc. But explicitly suggesting personal acts of terrorism or violence is the kind of thing could get users / site owners caught up in a criminal conspiracy if it becomes the norm or, worse, leads to an offline, physical act.

        I don’t want comrades (especially young or vulnerable comrades) to be encouraged to commit personal terrorism or violent acts thinking that ‘we’ / others generally support that kind of thing. We do not.

        I think the comments that I am referring to were attempts at edgy humour but we should watch out for it and be cautious.

        • Camarada ForteOPMA
          12·
          2 years ago

          Please edit your comment to omit those long quotes unrelated to the subject in discussion, otherwise it will be removed. You can create a post somewhere about different analysis of terrorism, but this is uncalled for here.

          EDIT: Thanks