UniversalMonk has been evading the bot’s ban on him by posting from new accounts. That’s ban evasion, which on most instances leads to an account-level ban, as far as I know.
I made a report, but just in case it blended in with the noise, I’m posting to let admins know that he’s now ban evading from these new accounts. As much fun as he is to interact with, and a good test for the bot’s throwaway account detection, I think Lemmy will be improved by nuking these accounts.
The accounts are UniversalMonk at lemm.ee, slrpnk.net, and sh.itjust.works. The first two ban evaded in [email protected], the last one is merely connected to the person who did that.
I think I’ll make separate posts to the meta communities for the other two servers. I’m not sure which admin is appropriate for this.
We contacted all of the instances where we knew he had bans before granting him membership. In the future I’ll keep you updated on similar controversial choices so you can better protect your community. Greenlighting him may have been a mistake, but we didn’t have sufficient information to gauge the seriousness of his antics. He’s definitely not a bot or a spammer, and wasn’t trying to conceal his identity so we’re giving him the benefit of doubt.