what's the asshole mitigation plan?

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So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something.

When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

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There should be a limit on how many communities you can create in a given time span

There should be a limit on how many communities you can run, period. This is how we got super-mods like GallowBoob on Reddit

I upvoted this post and I saw a popup "report created" this is not what I intended, I completely agree with this.

I've seen spontaneous "report created" moles¹ as well. It's not clear to me that a report is actually being created; it seems like a UI bug.

¹ "mole" : a pop-up div that appears from the bottom of the page.

Mole? What's the difference between a mole and a toast?

I'm not sure. I'm not a frontend dev myself; "mole" was the term I heard from people who were.

Oh. I think they are most commonly called "toasts". Called such, because they pop up from the bottom like toast from a toaster. I've also heard them just referred to as "alerts" or "notifications", but I think that's a bit ambiguous. Android likes to call interactive ones "snack bars", which is kind of silly. "Moles" is new to me as a term for them, but I think it's quite fitting too, yeah, I like it

And how does that stop them creating multiple accounts to multiply the limit? It doesn't.

There should be a limit on how many communities you can create in a given time span

Yes, I thought of that, but then I am sure they would just create alt accounts to create as many communities as possible. I think the requesting of communities is still the best way. If one wants to be the mod of a community that already has a mod who is moding 50 other communities and is not doing jackshit..

this. Ihateany "verification" or "request" process as somebody has to do it. But saying that you cant create more than x communities per month or y communities per yearwould pretty much solve the problem.