It’s very tempting to go back through your comment history, and drop a reply under every single comment that makes any kind of factual argument: “you have no proof for any of these claims”, but life is short, so I won’t. You can just imagine that I did, and post me a reply with the proof for all of it all together, if you like.
UniversalMonk you mean? Hm… maybe not. Mostly I just talk about his actions, and how they negatively impact everyone else on the network, and how it’s appropriate to react to his behaviors. I do think about his motivations, and my read on him and why he’s doing these things, but maybe it is out of line for me to be talking about his mental state when the truth is that I have no idea.
I wasn’t intending to be putting him down, actually. More saying that in that aspect he is being real. I have some sympathy for him, and at least partly, I was trying to express that there. But you’re right, speculating about something like that when I really have not the slightest idea about it is maybe not an appropriate thing for me to do.
Absolutely correct. You also don’t have proof that I’m not a dog. You can still be reasonably confident that I’m a human, and talk accordingly, based on your best belief and understanding.
The lemmy.world moderation team was highly negligent in letting him go on as long as he did there. He was posting multiple posts of thousands of words of bizarre horror-story erotica where his enemies on Lemmy would get their comeuppance, and swearing innocently that he was just doing some creative writing, nothing about anybody in particular, and they were still saying “Yes, yes, we need this in our community, what a creative young man.”
You are, of course, welcome to your opinion and to run your instance however you like. Moderators from both lemmy.ca and lemmy.world have stepped into these comments to tell you that he is a problem, and the new steady flow of abrasive political posts he’s been doing recently in his own little corner of sh.itjust.works is likely to continue and escalate, to no one’s benefit. That’s my opinion.
Most importantly, he seems to have learned from this and is no longer doing those things on his SJW account. Have you considered the possibility that his behavior escalated in such a way because he was repeatedly being moderated for minor reasons, and thus began to act out in increasingly disruptive ways? Perhaps he has been less problematic on his SJW account because we let him do his own thing so long as it’s not bothering our users and generating tons of reports, which it isn’t.
If someone’s reaction to being moderated, whether fairly or unfairly, is to “act out,” and you feel like catering to them so they won’t feel the need to do that, then you and he deserve one another. I just feel bad for your users who will have to deal with this guy’s crap.
Which ones and can i get comment links?
https://lemmy.world/comment/14444086
https://lemmy.ca/comment/13865167
I think its pretry sus if ur willing to claim someone has sent abusive messages but not reveal what said abusive messages where. Thats a bit like claiming u have proof of someone stealing your car but will not be providing said proof as u just have to “trust me bro”
What part of “not publishing other people’s private communications” doesn’t make sense?
This is, in fact, exactly the same way stolen cars work. Someone steals your car, you get the police report, you show it to the insurance company. If you don’t have a police report, then they definitely will have questions.
https://ponder.cat/comment/1480007
That’s the police report. The insurance company doesn’t say, “Well, I won’t know it was stolen until I see it for myself. Yes, I know you explained there’s a specific reason you can’t show it to me, but I just don’t trust anything, I verify. The report from the person who investigated it using the extra abilities of their position, and then wrote formally that yes, it was stolen, isn’t good enough.”
Mods from lemmy.world and lemmy.ca have been in these comments saying that yes, it happened and was a TOS violation.
You’re free not to believe them. I don’t think asking them to expose someone else’s private DMs to you to prove it to you is realistic.
There’s always an xkcd.
I thought imaqtpie asked a very relevant and fair question about what the big even deal is, if UniversalMonk posted a bunch of stories to one of his one-man communities. I thought I addressed it from that perspective: Yes, it sounds like OP is making a disproportionate freak-out about this, because you’re right that it really isn’t a big deal on the face of it. Here’s where from my point of view that sudden and over-the-top reaction might come from. Then he said I was off my rocker.
Did you know you can’t take away my “asking the admins to ban an obvious and incredibly energetic troll” buttons, either?
Lmao I had no idea there was that much. I stopped screenshotting after 2 pages of excerpts for one of his accounts.
I… what? I thought a link you could click, and a specific thing to Ctrl-F for to find the specific entry, would be “evidence”, but if you want some evidence in image format, that’s cool too.
Harassing in private messages:
Other assorted behavior:
That’s only from the first two pages of the modlog, it keeps going. That’s also not all of it, just some stuff that’s pretty self-explanatory in the screenshot, and a good variety of different types of things he likes to do.
They dealt with him at length trying to do temp bans and just remove the content when he did this stuff, and talk to him and be reasonable with him, for far longer than I would have. Eventually they figured out they had to permaban him. That’s when he started making new accounts and further hyped up his banner talking about how his enemies were trying to silence him but he remained unbroken.
I kept putting my headphones in, and then I turned them up until I couldn’t hear the person that was next to me talking about Jesus. Means it’s fixed, right? We just need to get every new person that gets on the bus to make sure they know they might need to put on their headphones.
If this is true which it quite probably could be then op should have started with this. Ill be in full support of instance bans if i can be shown verifyable proof this is true.
Talk to the lemmy.world admins, they’re the ones who know the details.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=9454261 and search for “harassing”.
People keep seeing this but I haven’t actually seen any evidence. Kindly provide the screenshots. Having accounts on different servers is a complete non-issue, most people have multiple accounts on Lemmy.
Multiple accounts is fine obviously. Multiple accounts to get around a ban and continue the behavior that led to the ban, doubling down on how right you were in the first place, seems like something that it would be better not to allow.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=9454261 and search for “harassing users in pms”. I don’t know the specifics beyond that. If you read the modlog, down below the massive list of spam posts that were removed, you can see some of the types of comments that presumably, when he was making them in DMs, got him sitebanned.
What do you mean? Just come right out and say what you believe the issue is, I honestly don’t know what you’re alluding to.
I commented here, explaining for the sake of people who keep insisting that he got banned because of what his beliefs are:
https://ponder.cat/post/1293130/1478863
If you don’t know his history on lemmy.world, the analogy might not seem all that hard-hitting I guess. It was never a problem that he was, among other things, claiming to be a socialist who supported third parties. It was a problem that he was posting basically the same 3 or 4 types of articles about it, 10-20 times a day to the same communities, and aggressively attacking anyone who disagreed with him about it.
If he’s had a change of heart, and realized that he was being obnoxious and now wants to be a good citizen, it would be fine. Maybe. Instead, what he’s done is pivoted to posting MAGA stuff, instead of socialism stuff. He’s now posting breitbart and the NY Post, on things like “Here’s why wokeism will be the downfall of America” and “Trump can use Russia’s space program to end the war in Ukraine.”
He loves drama. He posted third-party stuff before the election, and is now posting diametrically opposed stuff to /c/conservative. Is it deliberately to piss people off? That seems more likely than that, right as the election happened, he suddenly shifted all his focus and discovered that wokeism is the main problem, instead of the genocide in Gaza being the main problem. That’s what people mean in calling him a troll.
I’m literally the admin of his server and I haven’t seen his name in over a month. I haven’t seen him get reported and I haven’t seen any of his posts because I’m not subscribed to his communities. He is exactly what you just described, an account posting his own brand of weirdness to his own communities.
Where? 90% of the posts in the screenshots were made to communities he created, that have almost no subscribers and very few upvotes and downvotes. Please link the fresh batch of spam, because I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about. I just scrolled through his 40 most recent posts, and 38 of them were on his own communities, one was on c/conservative and the other was on c/twosentencehorror, with 11 upvotes.
I just looked for myself. I get your point. He’s got a right to “spam” in his own communities, or post sources I don’t think are credible, even after being banned from doing so in the main news communities on some other instance.
The issue I think OP is trying to bring to your attention, which I think is why he had what might seem like a disproportionate freak-out in response to seeing 9 suspect posts all in a row all from UniversalMonk on the “Local New” feed, is that this guy has a proven commitment to obnoxiousness that is probably only temporarily in abeyance.
You can do what you want, obviously. If he’s actually changed, then great. I would look at his behavior in the present as an indication of what he will probably continue to do. I think his main goal is probably going to be to spread disinformation on your server and ramp up to being obnoxious up to the limit of what won’t get him banned, and what might look like an overreaction based on that little series of posts is based largely on how much drama and antagonism he managed to cause on lemmy.world before they kicked him out.
How many of this comment do I need to respond to?
You guys aren’t even trying to make it make sense. Moderators blocked him, so he made new communities of his own. Then people blocked him and instances banned him, so he made new accounts. Now he’s showing up again for people who have taken the steps you describe. He is actively evading people’s attempts to not have to listen to him. He talks about how proud he is of himself for doing it.
“I’m from Texas! NATO is the absolute worst! Zelensky is corrupt! I’m from Texas! Trump is okay, I don’t see what the big deal is. I’m a socialist!”
Based on real events.
Edit: Actually, I should make clear. I don’t think mods should be trying to ban all the propaganda accounts. There is too much grey area, it’s impossible to do perfectly, and there is a real risk of censoring someone who is not propaganda but is just saying some unpopular thing. I do think that it’s worth making fun of the propaganda accounts when they are laughably obvious.
As far as I can tell, he mostly just posts to communities that he created
After spamming many others and getting banned, and then sending harassing DMs once he was no longer able to post most places he hadn’t created. And then creating new accounts on new instances so he could get around bans he had received on the old accounts.
I will not be banning users simply because some of their beliefs could be described as right-wing
If only someone would take some time and kindly put together an effective analogy for why the issue is not his beliefs.
Is it considerate to hunt through another users profile for reasons to permaban them from all of Lemmy?
If anybody had to hunt to find him, he wouldn’t be an issue. There are plenty of accounts quietly posting their own brand of weirdness to their own weird communities, and it is always fine.
OP actually specifically brought up that the impetus for this post was seeing a whole new fresh batch of UM spam in some definitely not private community.
Your whole comment reads like an example from a narcissistic personality disorder handbook, about how to create a whole alternate reality that makes whatever-it-is justified, and then act so reasonable, and so confused, about how anyone in the alternate reality you described could ever think something negative about whichever person it is, when all they did was…
I think you are completely correct. What was I thinking of? I was sure that UM was supportive of some politician who was rabidly pro-Israel, but I thought he said he was voting for De la Cruz. You definitely seem to be right about De la Cruz being pro-Palestinian, though.
Edit: I did remember right, as far as UniversalMonk, but I was unfairly slandering Claudia De la Cruz for which I apologize. I randomly ran across it when reading the modlog just now. He voted, according to one of his deleted comments in the lemmy.world modlog, for the Socialist Worker’s Party, meaning Rachele Fruit.
As the SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Florida last fall, Rachele Fruit spoke out against the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel and in defense of Israel as a refuge for the Jewish people at a rally at the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach Oct. 10.
“The Socialist Workers Party is part of the continuity in the fight against Jew-hatred that goes back to V.I. Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Socialists should never support any crime against humanity in the name of revolution,” she said. “Those who call themselves ‘socialists’ and who champion Hamas and other terrorist proxies of Iran will easily find themselves allied with future fascist forces.”
That’s important enough to go on their overall “here’s what our candidate is about” page. It’s not a specific story about the war in Gaza.
https://themilitant.com/2024/02/24/meet-the-socialist-workers-party-2024-candidates/
There’s also this:
https://themilitant.com/2024/10/26/defend-israel-as-a-refuge-from-jew-hatred-pogroms/
I can’t find the part where she was very upset about the United States not doing enough to support Israel in the war, but I thought I saw something about it. Anyway, she’s on Team Israel.
I think UniversalMonk is a real person with significant mental issues. Most of the influence campaign accounts have a consistent MO, and part of the game is low effort. They want to maximize the impact with as little investment of typing and thinking as possible, because they have however-many other accounts to run and they have a quota of comments they need to write. They just have a very particular way of interacting on Lemmy that doesn’t change all that much from one account to another as far as I can tell. He tries way too hard to be a normal-pattern influence operation. I think his accounts take way more work than it would be worth it to spend if he were paid by the hour. It would also be better just to have 10 accounts and have his spam of posted stories get spread out among all 10 of them instead of all comes from one.
Whether UM is a right-winger who is deliberately trying in his own insanity-tinged way to sow discord and hurt the left, or he’s sincerely pursuing some cartwheeling internal compass that I’m not privy to the details of, I don’t know. But I think he’s a real human who is representing himself more or less authentically. Not truthfully. But all this fanatical stuff he types up is in my opinion pretty authentic to who he is as a person, if that makes sense.
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