Block? I would rather... - Build, Raid, Rule.

*block :3

Report, downvote, block

Always leave somewhere better than you found it

Build a block, raid a block, rule a block?

Blocking is great, considerably improves your fediverse experience

I should block more but curiosity gets the best of me. I wanna see how the lemmyverse responds lol

Minec- or, rather, Luanti :D

Yep. Especially feddit.uk, the admins are super nice and approachable. Really helped me out a while back with a griefer^[Oh, but I got my revenge. Tracked them down via my drone army and spun a vortex over their house, suffocating them from the ground up. When they found the body he was in the wardrobe covered in spaff, grinning from ear-to-ear having died from the best asphyxiated climax ever. But that's just how I roll: I never burn a bridge if I can use it to wank off my enemies]

There are multiple channels I check throughout the day for reports. When I woke up this morning, there were three separate reports of this one (this is the second account they've made).

Please don't assume someone else has reported something. Personally, I don't mind reports from multiple channels.

For users or posts on lemmy.world, at least, if it's in a larger community, the mods are likely in a Discord server that can help bubble/filter that up to admins here. Or at least me, as I try to keep an eye out there. If you're sure someone is breaking instance-wide rules (like this spammer), that is something to raise to our attention, please. (If it's community rules, that should be reported to the community moderators). You can PM me, although when I'm away or sleeping that will delay action. I'm actually not sure which channel(s) my fellow admins would prefer I recommend, but if nothing else !support@lemmy.world is one of the ones you can use.

We're all volunteers and some of these things can take some time to deal with, so I just wanted to ask your patience sometimes and jsut remind that you see the stuff that slips through and not the stuff we're catching before it gets to you. :)

Blocked that same one this morning

The blocky way

Report sure, but the non-zero chance for downvoting spam resulting in an unseen ban somewhere (scripts, vote ratio) has trained me not to do that one.

Wait, what?

I'm just waiting for Interstellar to quit with the goddamn 400 errors on seemingly random posts. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I happily block idiots & bots as a reflex, but a language error that's been a known issue for how long?

That would improve the fediverse experience for so many of us, including me. 😅🤞🏼

I'm banning spammers as fast as I can mate.

Counterpoint: maybe those are specifically places that you would want to be banned? Fuck them, they did you a favor?

I don't disagree when it comes to comms, but with instance bans there can be no interactions even on 3rd party places and you can't even block users of that instance effectively (on Lemmy at least, which also has no other indication) Which means you must keep a mental note that a thread or user would be a waste of time replying to.

I mean if the instance is small enough that won't that much of an issue, but still.

EDIT: And as I hinted at in my original comment, that modlog actions may not federate over (I assume because different fedi architecture) can make it basically a shadow-ban.

Really? I've never been instance banned, that I know of anyway, so that intrigues me: why does it make it more difficult to properly block users from that instance?

Indeed being shadow-banned sucks - it's so unfriendly:-(.

why does it make it more difficult to properly block users from that instance?

Because on Lemmy at least, blocking (beyond individual users) generally isn't that effective. Doing so wouldn't hide users of a blocked instance if they posted in this community for example. Even community blocking is a bit weird... I often see image posts from a blocked comm because the image itself isn't hosted on that comm, though none of the comments will be visible (luckily in that case it actually isn't a big issue).

Ah I see what you mean - individually is still fine but en mass yeah Lemmy's "instance block" is named so poorly as to effectively represent disinformation since it does nothing of the kind, instead only muting communities located on that instance but not at all blocking any of the users. PieFed can do it, of course, but Lemmy has gotten left far behind in terms of features. And continues to move forward at a glacially slow pace, it seems to me.