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
  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    So I’ve noticed this too a lot lately.

    There’s still a lot of hit and run accounts and it’s wild that an account can be created, dump articles, delete itself, and the posts remain up.

    Examples:

    u/Valorian

    u/Vadian

    Then there’s accounts that are still up, but are posting at an insane rate

    u/Krewl 21 posts on a 3 hour old account

    u/nuemenon with 831 posts in 11 days, that’s 20 posts per minute!

    Why are accounts like these that are clearly bot accounts, with some bit of human interaction possibly, allowed to remain up? Just for the sake of content and interaction? Seems like a good way to allow propaganda bots to run free.

    Most of these accounts seem to be targeted at !worldnews@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world and primarily on the lemmyworld instance, at least in the very little time I’ve looked at this. Might just be that lemmyworld is one of the largest instances, but still.

    I know it’s probably hard to tackle on the mod side, but it does feel like there should be limits on how much an account can flood an instance with content or if an account is deleted, or banned, shortly after posting their content should come down as well. I thought bot tags were a thing, and maybe they are, which might help some, but doesn’t stop the issue.

    Edit:

    Just after posting this and here’s a 1 hour account with 11 posts already.

    u/Vany

  • Jerry on PieFed@feddit.onlineEnglish
    151·
    1 month 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
      71·
      1 month 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.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        32·
        1 month 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.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 month 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.