See title.

The same person creates a new account every few hours, posts a bunch of stuff, and self deletes. They’ve been doing it for months or more.

I get you can’t just patch the software to limit deleting, but maybe run a script to detect deleted accounts. If they’re less than 6 hours old, ban with content removal?

Edit: Apparently, shortly after posting this, federation from Lemmy.World stopped to my home instance and it’s now well over 100,000 activities behind. I guess that’s something 😆

Here’s a very non-comprehensive list of the ones I’ve seen:

  1. https://lemmy.world/u/TheDwZ (Pretty sure this is the “account zero” original)
  2. https://lemmy.world/u/balal
  3. https://lemmy.world/u/Vanayo
  4. https://lemmy.world/u/bax2
  5. https://lemmy.world/u/nehare
  6. https://lemmy.world/u/sixeyo
  7. https://lemmy.world/u/sijifec
  8. https://lemmy.world/u/palih
  9. https://lemmy.org/u/Vadalian
  10. https://lemmy.world/u/fraiserouge
  11. https://lemmy.world/u/sededor
  12. https://lemmy.world/u/Wazay
  13. https://lemmy.world/u/dwouu
  14. https://lemmy.world/u/vipec
  15. https://lemmy.world/u/kapanig
  16. https://lemmy.world/u/Dwuriii
  17. https://lemmy.world/u/Tasey
  18. https://lemmy.world/u/eten
  19. https://lemmy.world/u/gipoc
  20. https://lemmy.world/u/Yecoh
  21. https://lemmy.world/u/vowije
  22. https://lemmy.world/u/Voyarel
  23. https://lemmy.world/u/Dwazoupp
  24. https://lemmy.world/u/cogih
  25. https://lemmy.world/u/Sayaf
  26. https://lemmy.world/u/foga
  27. https://lemmy.world/u/Valyri
  28. https://lemmy.world/u/wino
  29. https://lemmy.world/u/fraeli
  30. https://lemmy.world/u/vanes
  31. https://lemmy.world/u/henaw2
  32. https://lemmy.world/u/fiye
  33. https://lemmy.world/u/helmi125
  34. https://lemmy.world/u/jicin
  • Jerry on PieFed@feddit.onlineEnglish
    151·
    22 hours ago

    One option is to switch to a PieFed instance running V 1.3.6. The devs did something about this for PieFed users that should help.

    v1.3.6
    Stop floods of spammy posts from very new accounts on lemmy.world.
    New accounts (< 24h old) from lemmy.world are now limited to 3 posts in their first day.

    V1.3.3
    Automatically delete posts by very young accounts that self-delete.

    piefed.social and feddit.online are two that are running the latest code. I’m sure there are others.

    Yeah, that person is quite annoying.

    • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      61·
      20 hours ago

      This doesn’t really solve the problem. This person used to scramble/delete their own content in the past before they went to delete the entire accounts.

      They’re a rather persistent ban evader who can’t accept not being welcome in some spaces on the internet. Even before they started deleting accounts they already used multiple accounts to evade bans.

      I’d be happy to hear suggestions for addressing this without essentially banning all new accounts. Preventing new accounts from participating will only result in them aging accounts for a bit before usage and discouraging legitimate new users from participating.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        20 hours ago

        When I modded reddit subs I always had a karma minimum to post, it seemed to drastically reduce bullshit posts. It wasn’t even very high, like 100.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        32·
        20 hours ago

        Preventing new accounts from participating will only result in them aging accounts for a bit before usage and discouraging legitimate new users from participating.

        Exactly.