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Trolls of Lemmy, what is up with that? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I can understand the desire to get as many downvotes as possible on reddit. I don't sympathize, but I can at least see where people are coming from. Because Reddit gives you that total and shows it to you.

And I'm sure it's possible to use an API to really that number up on Lemmy, but "total karma" doesn't seem to be something Lemmy cares about by default, so where is the motivation coming from?

Is it just the same reason people have always been trolls? Because I've never quite understood that, either

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Who spams obvious malware/scam links here? Facebook, I get it and expect it to work there. If you found your way here, you at leas have some understanding of what spam is and how to avoid clicking the melt my PC button.

Who clicks on those? Who pays for those? How is it actually profitable? Who the hell is moving that many boner pills?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The one I'm thinking of was recent but wasn't related to a scam afaik. It seemed like they just wanted to annoy the admins, but their act got cleaned up rather quickly after going scorched Earth by spamming nonsense because their original account got banned or whatever. It was petty af.