Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts?

ettyblatant@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 419 points –

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!

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Also worth pointing out that the best way of reading this thread is looking at all of the removed comments in the modlog. Lol.

Now I’m really curious. How do you read those comments?

There's a link at the bottom of each and every Lemmy page.

You can search by community/post/user.

On Kbin and Lemmy instances, the link is called "Modlog" at the bottom of the page in browser. I don't use any Fedi apps so I don't know what it looks like there.

You can see all of the deleted comments every day. I recommend everyone to look at the Modlog at least occasionally. You get a real pulse on how each community is moderated and you can make a better informed decision on where you actually want to hang out.

Is this something publicly accessible or do you need to be a mod or host an instance?

You can put /modlog after the instance URL, e.g. https://lemmy.world/modlog

I just did and some of the stuff is wild. Not gonna quote or reference anything for my account safety, don't ask.

This is so fucking good. I was so sick of shadowbans and not knowing what went down on reddit.

Only banned once because i supported ukraine to much, doing pretty good.

Guess that was probably on an lemmy.ml community?

My only complaint with the modlog is that it doesn't say which moderator performed the action. It just says "mod", so there's no way for a community to make sure particular mods aren't just going rogue.

The Modlog is (or should be, in theory) accessible on any Lemmy/Kbin instance. However, it is on an instance by instance basis whether the Modlog shows full information for each moderator action. Like you said, some instances will only show "mod" but others will provide the names.

To be honest, I haven't been looking at the Fediverse a whole lot lately, so I can't recommend which ones are the best and most transparent. At one point in time, the Lemmy.world Modlog did provide full info but it seems that they have changed that in recent months.

Also, certain instances have definitely started to selectively federate mod logs for whatever reason. .ml being the worst offender. It's a good idea in theory, but it's already being abused.

Just go to the instance website and there will be a link to the modlog usually at the bottom of the page.

I absolutely love the mod log. Some days I just read through that instead of the regular Lemmy posts.

It's not just an entertaining read, it's a valuable resource to look at to determine if mods in certain communities are over-moderating. Imo for months, mods in many of the largest communities are far overstepping their roles and not just "moderating" their communities but actively censoring opinions they don't like.

It’s not just an entertaining read, it’s a valuable resource to look at to determine if mods in certain communities are over-moderating.

Agree. Honestly that's where I find the entertainment from, actually looking at how the mods actually do their moderating, the kind of reasons why they give.

It's interesting to compare the moderation that happens between the different communities too.