Forming the Stalin Battalion!

Some instances we federate with have free account creation and some people use that to instantly post on Lemmygrad (like 2 days old accounts with comments only on Lemmygrad type of stuff)

I give you my blessing to dunk on those people when you see them, go as hard as you need (within reason).

But remember: people that are reasonable should receive the same too. I’m talking about pure trolls who know what they’re doing.

Then don’t forget to report them and we’ll ban them.

If we mobilise a front to counter trolls, I assure you they will stop soon enough because we take the fun out of it.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
    36·
    1 year ago

    Also important to keep in mind sealioning, which is a favourite tactic of theirs, if someone is responsive and asks questions, that’s good, and we should respond positively, but if they constantly ask questions that are deliberately rage inducing and willfully ignorant and hateful, while pretending to be “civil” themselves, be sure to call out the tactic for what it is.

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
      24·
      1 year ago

      Might be worth responding with a standard text about the way to ask questions.

      Something like (perhaps worded more simply):

      We appreciate good faith questions and engagement at Lemmygrad. If that is why you are here, welcome; we do not want to put you off. However, your question/post/comment includes problematic claims/statements that are not conducive to good faith discussion. The problem might be: anti-communism, historical inaccuracy, revisionism, reactionary talking points, bigotry, liberal propaganda, a loaded question, assuming that we will all agree about what you might think are uncontroversial facts, or something else. If you re-word your question we can have a more productive conversation.

      If they come back with loads more bullshit, their sealioning will be more obvious. And we won’t unintentionally start dunking on the people who just don’t know any better.

    • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
      19·
      1 year ago

      Adding to the other suggestion, what I’ve found to work some times is just asking them to elaborate on their questions if they are too low effort. If they’re spending more time trying to actually provide proper questions, that’s time they’re not spending spamming. Also works well with the accidental questions that do actually look like sealioning. Something like:

      Isn’t China really authoritarian though?

      Could you explain what do you mean concretely by “authoritarian” and how that differs from other countries that would be less so?

      Takes very little effort too.