I’m honestly curious though, what would it take for a user to be considered a Russian (or other) troll? Would they need to directly praise trump many times every day? I see some people lying about things Biden has done quite a lot… Would there ever be a threshold where it’s considered obvious that they’re only here to spread misinformation?
The big one was when Return2Ozma admitted, in public, that they were only interested in posting negative Biden information, that got them a 30 day ban.
Barring something like that? It’s subjective. Mods don’t have access to IP information so we can’t directly see if something is, say, coming from a bot farm.
The Admins can see that, but with VPNs and such, IP information isn’t 100% reliable either.
Ugh yeah I know making and enforcing the rules can’t be easy exactly but it’s disappointing that a direct admission to extreme bias is only a temporary ban.
I have noticed that user you mentioned is pretty bad too, but my pet peeve user is Linkerbaan. they post and comment all the time that not only is Biden directly to blame for everything Israel does, if you question them at all, then you support, defend, or even “love” genocide.
I’m honestly curious though, what would it take for a user to be considered a Russian (or other) troll? Would they need to directly praise trump many times every day? I see some people lying about things Biden has done quite a lot… Would there ever be a threshold where it’s considered obvious that they’re only here to spread misinformation?
The big one was when Return2Ozma admitted, in public, that they were only interested in posting negative Biden information, that got them a 30 day ban.
Barring something like that? It’s subjective. Mods don’t have access to IP information so we can’t directly see if something is, say, coming from a bot farm.
The Admins can see that, but with VPNs and such, IP information isn’t 100% reliable either.
Ugh yeah I know making and enforcing the rules can’t be easy exactly but it’s disappointing that a direct admission to extreme bias is only a temporary ban.
I have noticed that user you mentioned is pretty bad too, but my pet peeve user is Linkerbaan. they post and comment all the time that not only is Biden directly to blame for everything Israel does, if you question them at all, then you support, defend, or even “love” genocide.
So following up, since the admins are currently talking about a vote manipulation case thats kind of fascinating…
Someone was a victim of a mass downvote attack and that got on the admins radar.
Pulling the database data, they found 20 some odd accounts that appear to upvote one particular user, and, at least in this case, downvoted another.
All the accounts were random combinations of letters and numbers. They have no content other than the up and down votes.
Several of them have sign up email addresses with the same domain as the upvoted user. There are also some shared IP addresses as well.
I expect there will be a mass ban event here shortly if it’s not already happening.
Very interesting. I appreciate the info!