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There's a person who is spam creating hundreds of communites with impossibly long descriptions on world, why haven't they been banned yet?

3 years ago by Vamp to c/support

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ruud 397 points 3 years ago

The user was banned immediately. Also rate limiting has been put in place on community creation. (Removing the communities takes some time however..)

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Decoy321 89 points 3 years ago

Hot damn, you are fast. Nice job!

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Givesomefucks 53 points 3 years ago

It happened at least a week ago and the user was banned at the same time

OP is just reposting after the issue was already fixed.

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DudePluto 26 points 3 years ago

Yeah even if this is a new new account of the same user, we could do without the why haven't they been banned yet. I think we can all agree it takes time for the admins to notice these things - and they're volunteers anyway. They need some leeway

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meeeeetch 1 point 3 years ago

Why haven't they been banned yet?

Since you banned my main for...

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danc4498 11 points 3 years ago

Why haven't they been bann.... Oh, they're banned.

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Photographer 59 points 3 years ago

Can we have a hard limit on community moderation so we never end up with POWER MODS which were one of the worst things about Reddit moderation.

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Deft 8 points 3 years ago

right? some people spam their own communities daily trying to force traction in them and run like 16 communities.

like fuck off be normal.

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wtvr 5 points 3 years ago

Damn this is such a good suggestion fr

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s08nlql9 27 points 3 years ago

do you also ban the IP or is it too much?

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ruud 74 points 3 years ago

Lemmy doesn't have an option for that but we're looking into it

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delirium 25 points 3 years ago

I guess it's achievable with hosting you're using (with nginx ip block list for example if you're using it)

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dust_accelerator 15 points 3 years ago

What you're looking for is functionality like fail2ban, but probably with a filter set to the HTTP endpoint for creating communities. Not sure if it will work, I haven't really looked into the Lemmy code/architecture yet.

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ABeeinSpace 12 points 3 years ago

If they’re using Cloudflare it can do this too. Even the free tier, you can have one monstrously long WAF rule to ban a bunch of IPs

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Jozav 4 points 3 years ago

Spammers with a little bit of sanity in them will use VPN providers. The consequence is that IP banning effectively results in blocking VPN servers. For people like me, using VPN connections for genuine reasons (like a provider/government that cannot be trusted), this is problematic

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WireOwl 1 point 3 years ago

I used to use stuff that had IP banning and it would just mean when I was on mobile data I would just randomly not be able to use it because some dick was wanding around getting IP banned using mobile data.

People warrant IP banning userly are sad enough to find way of circumventing it and it'll probably just makes issues for other users instead.

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boeman 1 point 3 years ago

It's so easy to change your IP address. All you'll end up doing is banning a dynamic IP that someone else will get at some point

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Suspiciousbrowsing 124 points 3 years ago

It blows me away that 1) people can get so buthurt 2) have the mentality of a small child.

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GeekFTW 89 points 3 years ago

Having lived through the last 20 years, neither of those surprise me at all anymore lmao

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Anarch157a 34 points 3 years ago

It blows me away that the richest person in the world is one of those...

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MCForTheBest 7 points 3 years ago

That's not the mentality of a small child that's the mentality of someone who actively refuses to take their medicine. There definitely has to be some underlying problem with them, if I were this mad I 1. wouldn't do this and 2. would be over it within 2 minutes at most. This user can get fucked.

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WireOwl 1 point 3 years ago

It actually might more be the dumbass thinks it's like the guy who got domains for big companies in the early web and then sold them to them.

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Serdan 1 point 3 years ago

Teenagers can be little shits though

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ScOULaris 92 points 3 years ago

Jeez. What a pathetic loser.

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Gelouse 36 points 3 years ago

I can smell the cheetos-stained fingernails from here.

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burgersc12 19 points 3 years ago

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mysoulishome 8 points 3 years ago

Can’t even imagine why someone would waste their time like this. The instance is basically a non profit run by volunteers who believe in the technology…so let me just spend hours of my life trying to be a dick to them

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newthrowaway20 67 points 3 years ago

Oh, that guys back? Yea he has some problems. We just let him think he's doin something.

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daniskarma 57 points 3 years ago

They should be charged for trying to attack a service using malicious practices. People only learn when their actions have consequences.

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Haui 36 points 3 years ago

Agreed. People still think they’re invincible on the web. Tell that to a bouncer at a club or the police. They will f*** your s*** up.

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reflex 9 points 3 years ago

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PipedLinkBot 10 points 3 years ago

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meisme 1 point 3 years ago

Good bot

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Piecemakers3Dprints 1 point 3 years ago

This bot is lovely. 🥰🤌🏼

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atyaz 4 points 3 years ago

Sure but this won't stop until it's not possible or worth the effort/resources. So I'm wondering if there's a technical restriction that could be put in place for such behavior. Maybe instances should just start limiting the number of new communities someone can create in a certain amount of time on their instance.

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Pika 2 points 3 years ago

I think one of admins commented saying he added in the last thing, saying there's a delay but it takes time to delete the existing spam communities

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Lenins2ndCat 42 points 3 years ago

Hexbear had a nerd like this in the first year, must have been 3 years ago now. They spammed John Kerry pictures and did it every single day for like 10 months.

Serious waste of time/life.

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jiberish 33 points 3 years ago

Is there a way to add this as a bug or feature request list for Lemmy? This seems like a concern that will need to be addressed at some point in the future. Maybe opening up communities created by banned users. Or adding a feature where users can report rogue moderators and allow communities to be liberated from rulers who become malicious or have their account hacked?

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TheVampireSaga 27 points 3 years ago

this makes it more or less impossible to search for Communities with numbers in the name at least for me because they have random strings of numbers in the description.

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WarmSoda 9 points 3 years ago

Would blocking the user also block the communities they made?

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Piecemakers3Dprints 3 points 3 years ago

It really should, honestly.

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grysbok 4 points 3 years ago

I could see a case where someone creates a community, it thrives, then the creator turns out to be a butthead that needs banning. It happened to a subreddit I mod.

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Radium 2 points 3 years ago

No

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WarmSoda 1 point 3 years ago

That's unfortunate.

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Rawsark 23 points 3 years ago

How sad your life can be to wanting to claim com name to proove your existence?

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Dick_Justice 10 points 3 years ago

He made it impossible to search for wefwef before the name change

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tirestarter 4 points 3 years ago

fortunately the name changed to Voyager. Reachable at the following URLs vger.app m.lemmy.world

community: voyager@lemmy.world

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teft 5 points 3 years ago

Vger.app? My Star Trek senses are tingling.

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popemichael 3 points 3 years ago

V'ger and Voyager are both Star Trek references. I assume that it was done intentionally, but it's cool with me either which way

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shortgiraffe 1 point 3 years ago

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YellowtoOrange 1 point 3 years ago

Ban his ass already

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Ddubz 22 points 3 years ago

Ruud took care of it a week ago. They answered elsewhere in the thread. OP posted this without bothering to check if it had been handled.

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Piecemakers3Dprints 5 points 3 years ago

Maaan, that karma whore habit is hard to drop — even on a site devoid of any viable analog to it. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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MCForTheBest 1 point 3 years ago

I wouldn't attribute it to karma whoring and more to just being uninformed. Anyways, "Karma" exists on Lemmy, it's just not displayed explicitly on the website and you'd need an app for it that shows the count (e.g. wefwef/voyager which shows your comment/post score).

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KSPAtlas 1 point 3 years ago

Connect does it too

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RocksForBrains 0 points 3 years ago

That seems off.

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Machefi -4 points 3 years ago

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Clipboards 33 points 3 years ago

Inversely, why tolerate squatting? If you want to build the community up, great, but reserving is stupid if it isn't done in good faith

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Machefi -3 points 3 years ago

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ICKSharpshot68 1 point 3 years ago

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ICKSharpshot68 1 point 3 years ago

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Clipboards -1 points 3 years ago

Only if there were warnings - if there weren't, wtf

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Slacker -18 points 3 years ago

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