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Ok, I just gotta ask: what is your motive here?
You get banned every other day for spamming out a massive number of posts. And you just make a new account the next day, start the exact same thing again like...you've learned nothing?
I'm tired of my feed being an entire page of just you, and I'm tired of blocking you. Can you not just post things at a normal rate?
Joined 2 hours ago, 49 posts. Shit, you're not kidding.
Seems they've deleted their account.
I shouldn't say this, but whatever: It's a "troll" tactic to do that since mods/admins can't ban with content removal if the account is deleted (unless that's fixed in .13?) . Admins can remove the deleted flag in the DB for the user and then do so, but mods can only remove items individually. Not that any of these necessarily warrant removal on their own, but not doing so in this case encourages this kind of "hit it and quit it" behavior, and this user is clearly ban evading.
I'm not saying this as an instruction manual but merely as a statement of fact about how stupid Lemmy's behavior is with regard to deleted accounts.
I suppose it is just a news bot. I see nothing special about it. News as news. What exactly is the problem?
I think I've seen a "this is a bot account" option. If the bot accounts set that up, and the users who don't want to see bots turn off the "show bot accounts" it may fix some qualms? If the person doesn't mark the account as being a bot I can understand why maybe users wouldn't like it.
They've had many, many alts over the last 6+ months with the same posting pattern. Not one has been marked as a bot.
I haven't been following who/what they were, but what I meant is would it fix your qualms if they made sure they had marked their account as a bot? Or are you just worried they will flood too many articles and that may come from specific locations which will have a bias or something?
Because I would assume their perception is that more posts makes for more crap people can read/see/comment on which may help grow the communities.