Would this also be called “Reply guys”? Very rude, worst part, i already know reporting & blocking does nothing as another one can and will eventually pop up.
Anyoneone else feel frusterated with not being able to vent without rude people posting?
Another thing i noticed, alot of rude people come from lemmy dot world.
Yeah, dotworld has attracted a lot of those “witty” single-sentence reply guys from Reddit. They’re indiscernible from bots sometimes, just sort any reddit thread on r/all by new.
Oh yeah, I’ve seen some pretty tude & messed up replies. Culture of abuse caused by tolerance of rudeness.
Starts with rude replies, than they think “well nobody has banned or warned me, imma say nastier stuff”.
Yeah, some forums used to have a “on probation” tag for people that were causing trouble but hadn’t been permabanned yet that used to help a bit by hurting their reputation. I wonder if some functionality like that could be implemented as an add-on to Lemmy like that using functionality like the reddit masstagger but crowdsourced. For now I’m always assuming bad faith or reddit behaviour from dotworld accounts by default. Blocking them as an individual doesn’t work because them they just get to harass the people who didn’t block them yet without being noticed.
That sounds like a good idea.