UniversalMonk has been evading the bot’s ban on him by posting from new accounts. That’s ban evasion, which on most instances leads to an account-level ban, as far as I know.

I made a report, but just in case it blended in with the noise, I’m posting to let admins know that he’s now ban evading from these new accounts. As much fun as he is to interact with, and a good test for the bot’s throwaway account detection, I think Lemmy will be improved by nuking these accounts.

The accounts are UniversalMonk at lemm.ee, slrpnk.net, and sh.itjust.works. The first two ban evaded in !pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net, the last one is merely connected to the person who did that.

@poVoq@slrpnk.net

I think I’ll make separate posts to the meta communities for the other two servers. I’m not sure which admin is appropriate for this.

  • auk@slrpnk.netOPM
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    5 days ago

    They were banned from !pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net ages ago, and just now starting posting new stuff there under new accounts.

    You could be charitable and say that they probably didn’t understand how Pleasant Politics works, and had no idea that they were banned.

    Or, you could say that this user has such a clear pattern of badly-intended participation that this is clearly in the spirit of ban evasion regardless.

    To me, it would be different if they were coming with a post apologizing about trying to antagonize the whole community, and promising to be less toxic in their future interactions, and asking for a second chance. They’re not doing that. The fact that they’re not even bothering, just saying that they plan to continue the same obnoxious conduct as before, trying to innocently claim that they didn’t mean anything by it, and avowing to skirt carefully within the letter of the law, would mean that common sense would motivate a ban regardless and they don’t deserve any extra leeway when rules are broken, even if it was honestly unintentional in this case.

    It’s up to you. In my opinion no good can come of having this person involved for as long as they really want to defend their right to troll, but it’s up to you.