• omniman@piefed.zipEnglish
    31·
    7 days ago

    What can banning do , it takes no time to create new account same with other centralized social media

        • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auEnglish
          5·
          7 days ago

          Rumor from the mods is that behavior is pretty recognizable. You have to be sort of identifiable in some way or other to attract mod attention, so in most cases it’s pretty obvious when one account is doing one type of behavior, gets banned for it, and then a new account emerges that’s doing the exact same behavior.

          Situations are different of course, but I think especially for the more justified bans it’s not as hard as it would seem like (even when IP address matching is not involved.)

          • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            3·
            7 days ago

            I image that behaviour is recognisable because it’s really obnoxious. Like tankies trying to convert you to their faith or straight up spamming.

          • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
            2·
            7 days ago

            It’s pretty much impossible to tell if a person is legit or an account with a motive.

            There’s no invasive fingerprinting that’s done. If you remake an account with a new email and IP then you’re completely unknown.

            Obviously, if you’re doing the same gimmick it would be easy to pick you out, but if you legit wanted to make a new account to clear a ban there are not any moderation tools that will detect that.

            • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auEnglish
              3·
              7 days ago

              Obviously, if you’re doing the same gimmick it would be easy to pick you out

              I think this is the issue. Lemmy isn’t Reddit yet (although, give it time.) Most people who are copping bans at this stage are either (a) being insufferable in some fashion or other and refusing to stop (b) running afoul of lemmy.ml. I think in almost all cases of (a), what they are doing is returning exactly to form with the new account and then being all surprised that no one’s throwing roses and cheering them on this time around.