DOGE is permanently disabling the organs of the federal government in real time in ways that are not possible to repair.

Good. Smaller government is a good thing.

for posting an AP News article and following community guidelines?

lots of assumptions there. it’s an ap news article, they wrote it, they created the title. I posted it. I followed the rules of the community.

is an AP News article. is AP News fascist now?

yep and it’s against community rules to change the title. so I just used what AP News used.

I purge my accounts and come up with a new username every couple of months. feel free to go to c/privacy to find out why that’s a good idea on lemmy. no ban evasion as I have never been banned under this username or any other. I don’t know what gish galloping is

because it’s a news article and this is a new community

ok

what other dumb ass would waste the time making your account name to join lemmy

What do you mean?

so yes troll or paid shitter

Paid to post AP News articles on Lemmy? How much do you think that would pay?! lol

Paid to post AP News articles on Lemmy?!

I don’t know what you are talking about

I don’t support fascists though.

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I did

Or just someone who has a different opinion than you.

I like how Musk is doing it.

So AP News is fascist now? What!?

I like how Musk is doing it.

Ahh, ok. But again, I’d say there are other posters who post almost as much and don’t catch the flack that he does.

Not that I am arguing with you, since I think you and I both agree there should be no limit.

I feel that since the vast majority of comments that Monk made were replying and answering comments he was receiving, it’s just community engagement and not detrimental to the community.

I also don’t even see 9 posts a day as a big thing. That’s like one post an hour for an average day. I read WAY more posts than that online during a day.

It’s a feed the troll thing. I see everyone talking about how he was such a troll, but look how few people actually blocked him, and would engage him.

And he’s still around, and I only commented two his posts a couple of times, so I really don’t care. But I just see his name come up all the time, and I never see anything that he did that was nearly as horrible as people imply.

I see MUCH worse in c/politics now than I did back then. I see outright nazi comments, calls to violence, etc.

UM never did any of that. As far as I can tell, everyone was pissed because he refused to back off saying he was going to vote third party–which now isn’t nearly as terrible to say as it was then. But I realize that’s veering off-topic for this discussion.

Fair enough. But how many of those were posts vs comments?

And if the comments were him replying to people conversing with him, does that count? Because I see a lot of people mad that people post WITHOUT engaging in the comments under the post.

So which is it? Should people reply to people commenting on their posts or no? Because I’m looking at Universal Monks post history on world, and the vast majority were him just replying to people that commented on his replies and his posts. In other words, he was answering people asking him stuff and saying stuff about him.

If no one would have replied to his posts, then his comment history wouldn’t be so large. And since they weren’t ignoring/blocking him, they they were engaging in conversation with him. So does that count as spam or trolling?

I’d argue that he INCREASED community engagement.

I just posted the numbers of philipthebucket. Should he be banned? Is he a spammer troll based on the number of comments and posts? over 2,000 comments in 7 months is a shit ton of commenting. I’m not saying he should be, but he would be severely limited under a limited post rule as well.