Making a genuine effort here to make this post within the rules of this community. I notice there is no qualifier for meta-posts; mods I’d love if you could just let me know to take this down rather than ban me. :)

Pretty much what is in the image.

  • I appreciate the effort and values behind responding to reports with the reason.
  • But I don’t appreciate how the responses, especially to trolls, give them bait to double down in their offensive rhetoric.
  • .world already has an @AutoMod@lemmy.world which DMs users with the reasons for mod action on their content.
  • About half the time this mod will also continue to engage with the trolling user.
  • Lemmy doesn’t allow unflaired mod comments as of now so this just proves to add more fuel to the flames and make this community more toxic than it was without this action.
  • I recognize this will be an unpopular post, and believe me, again, I appreciate the effort put into informing us why things are removed.
  • But please consider stopping, or at least doing it in a way which doesn’t amplify trolling.
  • This also goes for other communities @jordanlund@lemmy.world moderates but this is the primary source of the issue.
  • Thank you with peace and love.
  • barsoapEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Regarding trolls in general, and especially troll feeding, a couple of hackers figured out how to deal with them ages ago (in German): Throw comments into a bayes filter (like those spam filters), have them rank it according to what it learned and, most importantly: Don’t just block the comment. Have the user solve a captcha. The more incited the thread is, the more the post looks like trolling or responding to a troll, the more often randomly fail the captcha.

    Thus you make the unwanted behaviour annoying, people often simply say “nah it’s not worth it”, but on the flip side you’re also circumventing accusations of censorship. Trolls, now having lost the massive reaction they so crave, and themselves having to jump through captcha hoops, migrate to darker pastures.