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Who is this “troll” people keep talking about? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by voytek709@lemmy.ca to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world
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People keep asking if I’m a troll using a burner account or talking about “the last time” I posted on a different account.

I just created this account recently and have zero idea what these people are talking about. I also don’t want to get banned for something I didn’t do just because people assume it was me.

Did this troll ask for advice a lot? Were they rude to people on here?

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

There's several different burner account trolls:

  1. A long-tern persistent actual troll. Code name: "that guy". They pop up every so often and spew a bunch of racist garbage. They act like they're Professor Chaos, but we just ban them and move on with our day.
  2. A medium-term persistent troll. Code name: AntiYanks. They're not as racist as "that guy" but pretty much only exist to stir up drama and derail things. Again, ban and move on.
  3. There's a tinfoil nutjob who creates disposable accounts every 2-3 hours, makes their posts/comments, and deletes the account. They're mostly benign, but abusing the platform and causing a lot of useless junk accounts to accumulate fediverse wide. They tend to be most active in Comic Strips, Memes, No Stupid Questions, and Ask Lemmy, though they're not exclusive to those communities.
[–] voytek709@lemmy.ca -2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

What does 3 post about??

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Mostly normal-ish stuff. They just go way overboard on "don't track/profile me" to an obscenely obnoxious degree.

If you go to https://lemmy.world/c/comicstrips and click on half of the usernames that have posted there, you'll get an error because it's that person creating a massive number of burner accounts, making a post, and deleting the account.

For the AskLemmy/No Stupid Questions/and other communities, I can't say with 100% certainty it's the same person, but the profile fits.

It's somewhat normalized to use a secondary account if you wanna ask something dumb and not have it associated with your main account, but most people don't delete the account immediately afterward and check in with a new alt soon after, so I'm wanting to say it's the same person.

[–] voytek709@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago

Odd. All without profile pics, titles are only 1 word