But this is SOO tedious. The annoying bit is it could just be one person who set it up over a weekend, has a script that they plug into when wanting to be a troll, and now all admins/mods have to do more work.

You’re fighting the good fight! So annoying that folks are doing it on freaking lemmy.

I’m not familiar with your instance, but it’s possible that it’s not federated with the two big porn instances.