Rant

Yeah they are also an Ai simp and just constantly stealing other people’s content.

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1. Definitely not every post of theirs is upvoted (see links below). Do you have one that you feel like the voting for was probably fraudulent or something?
2. He is vocally against lemmy.ml and reposts their content sometimes to encourage people to move off that server. What's your take on that? Does he repost anything outside of that one example that you know of?
3. Do people ban this person? Literally all he does is post, as far as I can tell... like I looked over the user pages 1 2 3 4 5 and it's just kind of normal stuff to me.
4. It's a little weird that he has so many accounts. @cm0002@lemmy.zip why do you have so many accounts? It is a little weird and makes it more difficult for people who want to block you, I get that part of what OP is saying, just all the rest of it like you're doing some kind of wild out-of-pocket thing by posting the stuff you post seems all the way out of left field to me.

proof that it is high time that an instance needs the ability to straight up perma ban a username

This wouldn't solve the problem. They'd just roll in with cm0003. You need an IP ban or some similar source specific censorship. Even then, it's a moving target when the end user is determined enough.

I don't like the content they post (it's indistinguishable from botspam) and I especially don't like the fact that I can't just block it. Every week it's a new spam account.

Blocking is a user ban. Making so many new accounts is (from a personal, user-experience level only) very much like ban evasion in that view. The experience fucking blows.

I get that a lot of people are digging what cm0002 posts, and I don't mind that they are getting off to it. I don't, and I'm tired of playing block wak a mole. I don't know what else to do but to keep blocking every time they get bored and make (for some reason???) yet another (over twenty and growing!) account on a new instance. I could see two or even three for like, you want to keep a porn account separate from public, or you want a mander persona and a world persona or something, but this is so supermuch not that.

If people don't like me, and no doubt I'm on a lot of people's blocklists (for good reason...), they can block my single name and move on with their lives and never have to deal with my manic bullshit ever again. More power to them, go off and slay, queen, it's a great feature of this broad community.

Is it really too much to ask to be shown the same courtesy?

For other people blocking me, I don't really care if they do or don't, it's just unfortunate unintended side effects for the actual reasons below. If I was really ban/block evading I'd just make up an entirely new user name each time, it would be FAR more effective and longer lasting.

• Shopping for a new home instance

• Exploring the Threadiverse from different perspectives (the "hot" feed you see can vary quite a bit depending on the instance you're on lol)

• Learning that the bot intended to better interconnect instance comms may not be doing as good of a job

• Interconnecting wayward or much smaller instances, a couple of them are missing even the big comms, one I was on the other day I needed to manual have it federate with every comm I posted to

• For the creation of comms on fitting instances or just among a regular rotation of general instances so I'm not making a whole bunch on any one instance

• Prevention of a reoccurrence of my imposter problem

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about??

It is unhinged behavior to do this in response to not liking admins of a lemmy instance and I just feel bad for this person that this is where they channel their life energy into.

Okay. Looking through the comments, it doesn't appear that you actually have anything here other than it pisses you off. But is it a problem? You're phrasing this like cm0002 is evading bans and he isn't. If he's making new accounts and that annoys you then that sucks but... why do the admins need to get involved with this? You said you want to have him permabanned from an instance? Why?

You can check who voted for a post by the way. Cm0002 doesn't vote for himself. I have checked in the past when I first started noticing his username a lot myself. Hell, I thought he was irritating as hell for a while myself too. I guess I'm biased in the sense that I know the dude and would call him a friend but even then, I'm not seeing anything demonstrating that action needs to actually be taken by anyone.

I get being annoyed with people. But saying that this is bad faith and worthy of having the entire username banned from the entire fucking instance seems like a massive overreach. One so far that I would just outright avoid ever posting to that instance ever again because that admin would be tripping balls and power.

I have a similar setup here. Isn't ban evasion more effective when you don't reuse a username? Also I see this person's posts on the top most days, what exactly are they getting banned for?

I'm using multiple instance handles like they're subreddit clusters, which is why I didn't bother changing my name. Seems like something that people who check a lot of different comms of different sizes do

It's the same thing with sunshine, pugjesus, and dude. I can't fucking stand it. I don't want to see the same 4 people posting because they're on a manic upswing/addicted to the platform. I try to block their accounts but it seems like they have already spun up 4 more to submit from a different spot. It's awful and devalues lemmy (for me). I would be better off never seeing their posts again.

I think the broader solution is approval-based instance federation. I know that's a little anti-fed, but this type of attack has no other solution I can think of, and banning a username just means the attacker rotates those, (too).

Tbh I kinda like it, I have .ml blocked, so if someone is going in there and filtering out the good content to post elsewhere, I’m not opposed.

E: it is annoying that there’s like 100 accounts of them, but meh, it’s not a huge deal to me

Banning a username doesn't solve the problem tho - you can create new accounts anyway. And banning accounts with similar names as well creates all kinds of problems.

Maybe some kind of probation could help? For example, a user could be invisible for everyone but their home instance for some time. If they are then reported and banned, they never appear on another instance to begin with. Could do this for both comments and content.