Oh I just encountered this person in the wild lol
I was dunking on this person but I found a weird comment of theirs on a thread about “what would you do if it was your last day alive”. I think they are legitimately mentally unwell and we should stop dunking on him.
Also I hate to sound like a lemmyworlder here but their latest reply to me had 5 upvotes within 2 minutes of being posted. I think the belief that we’re manipulating votes has led some of these specimens to take preemptive last resorts
I look forward to the day when I see “preemptive last resort” on the newest Hexbear iceberg .
I’m sure @WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net is working on a “Hexbear federates” update of the iceberg already
There’s 100% something going with votes ever since a month or 2 ago, Yog started randomly getting ~10-20 more upvotes out of no where on random comments and posts, often time’s in less than 5-10 minutes, it was especially strange when it would happen to one of his comments sandwiched between a comment he was replaying to and a comment replying to him, but it’s very inconsistent it doesn’t happen all the time and I haven’t noticed any patterns to it, and then I noticed it happening to a few of my comments too, and I see suspicious vote behavior like that here and there now too, I suspect there’s either someone testing voting bots to see how well lemmy instances can detect them, or it’s just some strange lemmy bug that hasn’t been reported yet.
I asked one of the lemmygrad admins to check these two comments of mine that I noticed, https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/1359803 https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/1361307 and see if they noticed any strange accounts upvoting them, but I never got a response
We’ve swung the pendulum too far to the other side. People are being too gentle and diplomatic. We’ve forgotten part of why bullying works. Some people need to be chased away from the discourse. We had to chase so many people away to get the community and the vibes we have here now.
People like that I posted here should not feel comfortable acting like they are right now. They should be bullied to the point of silence for the sake of those around them, an for the sake of themselves becoming a lurker and hopefully acculturated to the community they’ve just joined.
Feel free to bully me if I’m wrong.
@Civility@hexbear.net where are you now?
Importantly this was deployed in a reply to someone calling them out for completely ignoring a cited argument. The “strawman” here is saying something went over their head.
Reddit bingo:
Uses debate terms incorrectly
Smug
Refuses to read and acts like that makes him the victor
Baseless accusations about his opponent’s personal character
Cringe
Oh, you communists posted an entire wall of details well sourced analysis that names names and specific events which refutes my entire belief structure? SMDH literacy is such a communist scheme I am misusing a text to speech program to write this i have never comprehened a word in my life to protect me from the lies of 1984 no food big spoon tanks famine sparrows communism!
Reddit bingo:
Uses debate terms incorrectly
Smug
Refuses to read and acts like that makes him the victor
Baseless accusations about his opponent’s personal character
Cringe
I think the Tesla consoomer bro I argued with earlier today didn’t just get a Reddit bingo, but filled the entire card.
