• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    9 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.

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      9 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.