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Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 8 months ago by ettyblatant to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] CosmicCleric 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Love this comment from that GitHub page...

This is urgently needed for the upcoming elections.

The only problem though is a lot of time astroturfers/bots create accounts and then just let them sit idle for 6-9 months before using them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you could combat that by deleting inactive accounts that seemed to never have been used.

But they can get around that. It's a never ending battle against that kind of stuff.

[–] CosmicCleric -1 points 8 months ago

Yeah exactly.

The filtering would had to be more sophisticated, instead of an age by date, maybe an age by number of posts within an amount of time, etc.

But astroturfers/bots can work with that too, to a certain extent.