it has 129 posts so I’m going to reopen it. if someone wants to take over as mod please let me know

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    4 years ago

    The banned user was trying to transplant standard operating procedure of a reddit troll account onto this platform. Basically you blitz the site with generic content. This fills 99% of your post history. It creates a noise floor. The 1% of posts are your signal. The actual message you’re trying to inject into conversations.

    A result is that we get comments like the above. At a glance people only see the noise floor. Totally harmless looking user right? Now whos gonna spam generic links accross every community. Anyone of us could create a scraper bot to accomplish that anyways.

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      4 years ago

      I think you’re way overthinking how much effort people are willing to go through for some obscure social network with 50 people on it.

      Also it’s pretty easy to read history here on lemmy. Nothing is hidden and web pages load fast.

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        4 years ago

        These sorts of power user accounts are blatantly obvious on reddit too. The average user doesn’t care.