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Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by ettyblatant@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] emmie@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Never feed the trolls, the only winning move is to downvote and move on

Nothing is as maddening as writing an elaborate troll post only to be completely ignored.

I do all my riling people up on Reddit though because that site is collapsing anyway and a shell of former self. Hard to bring yourself to respect it and not throw some spicy fake made up posts into the wild and see what happens

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So you speak from experience?

[–] emmie@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

[–] HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Dammit

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Report if they break the rules, block if they're bad enough.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

You should report them as trolls in any case, most instances on Lemmy have rules against trolling in general, further violations beyond that just add to the initial violation of trolling.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

Never feed the trolls, the only winning move is to downvote and move on

A counter-philosophy I subscribe to is call out the BS but don't go back and forth. If you let the trolls be this can bring more trolls. Call out the bad behavior and move on so it isn't accepted but they also don't get the satisfaction of engaging in an argument.