I downvoted maybe half a dozen posts. They were all right-wing bullshit and I realized that’s all the user has ever posted so I got out of there. The next day I see more of his junk and go to downvote but can’t because I’m banned.
Sure it was a dick move to poke the bear about his lifestyle of only posting things that get downvoted, but he. Went. OFF!
Accusing me of alts, thinking I’m obsessed with him, message after message… I probably have more in my inbox right now but stitching this image together took long enough.
Congratulations! You just had a run in with DJM/Universalmonk/BarryGoldwater/ I lost track of the rest of his alts.
I suppose I should count myself lucky that I haven’t heard of/experienced this dude before, what’s their deal?
UM used to post a ton of conservative bullshit, then would get offended when it was downvoted into oblivion, then would go off on unrelated rants and would message people heinous bullshit. We’re talking posting and commenting like it was a full time job. That account got banned, and he created a bunch of alts on other instances to get around it. It was always suspected that DJM was an UM alt, and then was confirmed when he posted one of UM’s rants word for word. Once you know what to look for it’s pretty obvious. Most of the accounts I know of were created on the same day, have the same style of weird AI created avatar (pretty sure they’re made using the Dream app by Womble), and all have some sort of vaguely libertarian sounding quote in their profile.
I think there’s a few posts about UM on fediverse lore as well.
That explains why they accused OP of having alts, every accusation and all that.
Actually no. I have nothing to do with OP or the communities he was banned from. He’s not banned from any of my communities. I don’t have any alt names. I have this name on alt instances, but no alt names. And all my posts on all my instances are public.
Word-for-word rant?! I’ve seen others say that too, but I’ve never seen it. Any receipts? I even looked on my own. I am not finding any word for word rant. You have a link to the rant? I have never DM’d any “heinous bullshit.” Again, any proof or links or screenshots? OP is not banned in any of my communities. But if he went in my communites and downvoted a bunch of shit and as he admitted to, “poked the bear,” then I’d prolly ban him too. Like others have been saying and doing.
Off-topic tho. I have nothing to do with OP or the post.
EDIT: Let’s just move on. I’m not the subject of OP’s situation. Unless you have proof of the word-for-word rant that the guy supposedly took from me–then we can keep going. I haven’t seen any of that in his post history tho
That’s not how the disengage rule works. It’s not a trump card to have the last word in.
Fair point. I was trying to keep from a slapfighting removal. It’s a fine line between defending myself, and having the arguments just keep going on. So maybe saying “Let’s move on” would have been more appropriate, I’ve edited comment. I’m not the subject of OP’s post so I wasn’t sure how to defend myself when people say it’s me, but I don’t wanna be accused of a slapfight.
I think defending yourself against libel is OK, but you can just write in the end that you’re not interested in arguing about this further. If they then try to argue with you, just reply with ‘disengage’
Ahhh! Ok, yep, that makes more sense. Edited my comment, and I’ll edit my others as well.
Lemmy.world has been pretty good about blocking the alts as they come up because they like derailing threads, baiting users into breaking rules, arguing pointless semantics, rule lawyering and/or making everything about themselves.
What you are saying is true, just has nothing to do with me. My post history is public.
Not me. Not my community. Not my issue. I don’t have alt names. I’m on a couple other instances but under this name. I’m not involved or even mentioned in OP, so not sure why you’re bringing me into it.
Gotta love how people make shit up about users they dislike.
It’s disturbing just how effective this campaign has been. I think part of the reason is that many admins just tend to go along with the consensus when these things are occurring, because it’s easier to take someone’s word for whats going on than actually look at all the details, especially when it’s been playing out over years now. We’ve all been guilty of this.
But the fact is:
Multiply that a dozen times and you have a successful mud slinging campaign to get someone multi-instance banned.
I will agree at time’s UM has been… unsaviory and dickish, but its just bizarre lemmy wants him gone, instead of any of the major players that make other instances horrid. The ones who join places, act like a dick, then cry when the mess gets cleaned up.
I don’t enjoy associating with people who admit that they intentionally antagonize other people so they get in trouble. That really, really, really sticks in my craw. Not understanding social norms or the billions of things that aren’t said in rules, or how some folks can violate things that are and others can’t, is a massive noose around the neck of people who are neurologically atypical, so someone claiming they do those things but ‘only’ against people they deem deserve it is a massive problem for me.
What does this mean? I’m not being a dick, I genuinely would like to know what you are referring to. Can you explain that a bit more.
I think you’re saying that it’s already difficult enough for neuro-atypical people to process things, so that when you see someone you think is being intentionally annoying, it frustrates you. But I’m not sure how that relates to this thread. Are you talking about shitposting or something else?
You don’t have to explain if it’s upsetting to you or anything. Or DM me if you prefer to keep it private. (I’m being serious, not sarcastic)
Any names in mind?
Rheori (if I’m spelling that right), FreedomAdvocate, SatansMoldyCumFart, and PugJesus has been routinely rude to various instances and then cries when banned for it.
Also various mods of .world have had some of the worst moderation possible. Banning for disagreeing despite evidence proving them wrong.
It’s basically how .ml treats anything about China. Proving them wrong means you’re banned.
Yep! I’m pretty sure I’ve even wrote to admin of this instance to point out when someone started impersonating me. It got to be so many accounts that I stopped doing that though.
At peak UM hate, there were something like 45 instances with my name that were not me. Some guy hated me so much he’d make a list of all the instances, and post it to every conversation I was involved in. lol
Also saw a few fun ones like, “REALUniversalMonk” and “UniMonk” and “UniversalMonksHairyArse” or something like that, but those never lasted long because they’d just get banned immediately when they posted weird ass nazi shit anyway.
It’s pretty much died down recently. Most people know I post just from this one, sh.itjust.works and piefed.feddit. This is my main one tho, because…pirates!
I was on slrpnk, but to your point, a mob campaign started, so the admin there gave me a heads up they were banning and deleting me. Even tho I had never posted anything political at all from that account. But he gave me time to switch everything over before he deleted all my stuff, so he’s cool people.
To be honest, I’m surprised that admins even let my name be started on other instances now!
I recall that, and someone started impersonating one of our users with transphobic trolling shit, talking about pig pet play stuff. Weird as well.
They could just… go on with their lives. Instead they dedicate hundreds of hours into this instead of reading a book, watching movies, playing games, etc.