Last month a “Velma” kept following me around Lemmy using their alts to harass and downvote me, then they popped back up the other day to tell me that the decades of Weinstein rapes were the same as non-physical sexual assault and consensual sex, which is crazy.
Anyone elae have weirdos or creeps following them around?
Looks like Velma’s getting upset:
Or maybe this DM is not ftom another Velma alt and a random user is suddenly very upset at me personally for no stated reason. What a coincidence!
I’m just a lurker so can’t talk answer your question, but I can say that before blocking her I’d frequently see radical comments coming from Velma.
And when I went to block her, the profile bio had something along the lines of “I’m glad my existence brothers you”, I can’t imagine a non troll having that kind of bio, but maybe that’s how some people are.
I was expecting to discover that everyone had some different troll harassing them, so the amount of lemmy users that have been attacked by Velma specifically is pretty wild.
Glad to hear she’s not following you around too, that’s clearly a troll bio.
Velma, the user who thinks any rape claim by a female should be presumed guilty until proven otherwise? That Velma?
She informed me I am a rapist over a story of legal, consensual sex.
Ya I’m starting to think she a part of a troll farm
Sounds like it, I didn’t realize Velma was so infamous.
Can you also answer the post question to keep in line with rule 4?
Hard to say honestly. I get some random downvotes on innocuous comments sometimes, but there doesn’t seem to be a specific pattern and I can’t be arsed checking who downvoted.
Fair. I had multiple accompanying dms from my stalker so there wasn’t a lot of mystery to it, otherwise there’s no way I’d take the time to ferret out a random troll or five.
I think so. I had a couple of very strange downvoted comments after I called out that sanitation re-post bot.
Like, my wordl results in !dailygames@lemmy.zip had several downvotes (people hardly ever downvote on there).
So weird. and repost bots can get outta here, for the record. Was that one particularly obnoxious or prolific? I block a lot of heavy posters.
I was mostly bothered by the reposts that included an [OC] tag when it clearly wasn’t. Also it was really funny how they simultaneous claimed not to be a bot but also described in detail how their repost script worked … it was quite entertaining.
I don’t know why people who run content mill bots think they are providing value.
I think I know what account you’re talking about. I think their justification was they also use that account as a person so their script is an “automation tool” instead of a not.
Lol, I see.
Just look at their post frequency and how much of it involves one subject (SA). When they post something they also respond to every single comment.
Geez, you’re right. Misguided crusader type.
Yup.
I have an alt-account that made some people feel a certain way that now gets instant downvotes within a few minutes of posting/commenting.
Yea, it’s apparently a lot more common here than I realized. “Touch grass” is paradoxically dismissive and genuinely good advice for many users.
Yeah, that person is entirely out of their mind unhinged. I noticed they’re from .today. From my experience, a lot of trolls land there because the admins/mods there are basically asleep at the wheel.
Naw, I just block. Velma got their block after “😭😭😭 please mark videos shown on the news as NSFW because we are so fragile I can imagine seeing death 😭😭😭”. Much nice. Can recommend.
Edit: @velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone can you see this?
Hah! Saw that! I replied:
“No one has to watch that video.”
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Our community comrade
Good work, I have a lot of blocks in place too.
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Your premise is completely made up. I’m active nearly every day on Lemmy while you claim I’m inactive.
Why lie about public activity? Anyone can look up my very active profile.
To answer your leading question, I’m posting today because Velma has just attacked me(and apparently others) again and is abusing her many privileges.
I let her stalking and harassment go the first time, but her pro-rape stance, bigotry and brigading seems crazy so I wanted to see if other people had similar issues with other users.
Apparently, Velma is abusing many lemmy users. I thought there would be a wider range of abuse, but Velma is an abuse vector.
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The comment you’re referring to was in response to a thread asking for unpopular opinions about celebrities. Physical assault is not the same thing as non-physical assault. True and unpopular.
Thank you for the apology, but your other implications and gaslighting are untrue and violating several rules here. Don’t speak for me or anyone else.
If you are confused, you can ask for help or ask what someone means; don’t tell me what I mean or tell anyone else what they mean, especially if you’re making things up for the sake of a false premise you can attack.
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I have had follow requests which I respond with no but the gui seems to indicate they are my followers now. For what you are talking about I block liberally.
I’ve seen that following behavior as well, but I don’t think I get a request for follows. I block a lot and have every intention of keeping the blocks going.
piefed has something in its software to create and ask on follows. Before it had automatic follows which I think was standard because of some sort of necissity with interaction with mastadon. Regardless though from my gui view it seems rejecting them do not work although im not sure if its because they are following or the gui just does not work right. I have talked to rimu and he does not see what I do on my account. I would not block someone for following me but im not a person looking to be followed.
Oh, interesting. Yea, I completely understand your perspective.
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I’m not going to “politely” engage with trolls and encourage further harassment.
Funny, this same user managed to get my main account banned by telling the lemmy.world admin I was stalking them. Guess every accusation is an admission with some people.
Oh, and the instance admin actually bought it and won’t listen to my side, so here I am LOL
Sorry to hear that. These early-access always-online mods are really irritating and bigoted. You can follow every rule of their communities while they and their small group of frontrunner friends simply don’t. Then they take things way too far with personal attacks and like you’re talking about, directly lying.
Their abuse is why I started this ask lemmy. If they’re going to stalk and abuse lemmy and its users, there has to be a place available for discussion where they’re not in control.
Ah well I’m not that bothered about the account. It’s just the way they arbitrarily apply the rules and won’t listen to reason that bothers me.
Anyway, I’ve sent the admin a message and this is the last time I try to talk sense into them. I’m not getting my hopes up
Sure: “tolerance for me, but not for thee”
Yea, in that kind of situation it pays to move forward. It sounds like that was also on *.world, you didn’t want to try out another instance with a smaller cabal of overprivilege?
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Since I was sucked into their insanity and informed by “Velma” of some sort of “campaign” against them, I did a search & came upon this post. I’m not one to harass others - particularly those in such obvious need of psychiatric assistance - so I’ll just post my evidence from my most recent interaction here (I’ve saved a web page copy should it get removed), and suggest Velma, their backers from that thread, and any community Velma moderates (such as that one) be added to your blocklist for your own sanity. Do not brigade, as that only feeds the mental illness that seems readily apparent to me. That’s all I intend to bother saying in this subject.
EDIT: it’s amusing how the downvote keeps creeping up on this, particularly when the linked thread demonstrates not only the irrationality of Velma herself, but also that of her sycophants - especially when she made that incredibly absurd out of the blue sexual accusation. But whatever. I’m sure I’ll continue to be hounded for meaningless downvotes just like OP because these people are not terribly rational.
Thanks. I’m definitely not the brigading type, but I’m very anti-censorship and anti-corruption.
Good limk, Velma does lash out in ways you wouldn’t expect if you engage with her honestly. She has her narrow worldview and then bullies and trolls anyone who disagrees. For days!
I saw that part of her comment where she called you for an alleged slight from days ago, as if her holding grudges and gaslighting people for imagined slights is a jusitified and healthy way to behave.
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I literally had this community blocked because I didn’t want to see your communities…
Yes, clearly.
You’re a rape apologist, a bully and a troll Velma, get your power trips outta here.
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