Forming the Stalin Battalion!
Some instances we federate with have free account creation and some people use that to instantly post on Lemmygrad (like 2 days old accounts with comments only on Lemmygrad type of stuff)
I give you my blessing to dunk on those people when you see them, go as hard as you need (within reason).
But remember: people that are reasonable should receive the same too. I’m talking about pure trolls who know what they’re doing.
Then don’t forget to report them and we’ll ban them.
If we mobilise a front to counter trolls, I assure you they will stop soon enough because we take the fun out of it.
Thoughts on us shitting on reactionaries outside lemmygrad? Perhaps I’ve already begun that campaign
I think the best approach there is to just do proof by contradiction using their comments. The key part is to not debate the troll, but to speak to the broader audience reading the thread. Just be polite, provide sources and examples of why the claims are wrong, and move on. I find there’s really a handful of tropes these people like to dredge up, and you can just have a set of canned responses for them.
We don’t moderate what happens outside Lemmygrad unless there’s a report and someone breaks important rules (like if a Lemmygrad account starts spouting racist stuff on another instance, which indicates that they’re racist even if their conduct is fine on lemmygrad). This is completely up to the instance admins you’re on
Really rude dunking will get you banned on most other instances, and maybe gives some ammo to people saying they should defederate from us because we’re mean.
I try to follow the rules on lemmy.ml or wherever, and save the true mean stuff for here.