Good gods I’m going to be using the hell out of this…

Hwat*

“Russian Asset Follows Orders”

Absolutely. They’re only in this situation because their masters aren’t hurting the right people. Nothing else has changed in their beliefs.

“It doesn’t matter until it affects me.”

Oh hey, I was wondering if this might show up here.

I will admit that I was aggressive in calling them out, but I’d seriously had enough of scrolling through All and seeing nothing but their name on everything, on top of seeing the same post on 3-5 different communities.

Language aside, I believe my concerns were reasonable enough and clearly stated. Power users of that nature can control what everyone on this platform is exposed to, potentially manipulating opinions and injecting disinformation. Lemmy is still small enough that a handful of people could potentially influence the entire user base. Vigilance is key.

My remaining concerns are 1) There are still other accounts with identical behavior that have not been addressed and 2) I have seen accounts like this one cycle through instances, and I expect we’ll see a new account begin the same behavior from somewhere else soon enough.

Quite amusing that Cat deleted their account though. Exactly the sort of behavior you’d expect from someone just innocently posting content, right?

Beyond that, I could see a temp ban for my language. But 15 days? Yeesh. It was actually removed a short time ago so I guess another mod got a look at things.

Here’s the ban explanation, basically saying “spammers and suspicious activity is a-okay, and how dare you say anything about it”

Go Pack go.

(This is originally from the Green Bay Packers subreddit, hence why Piglet is green)