Can someone please remove this spam account?

Honestly, this is likely done to alienate other instances towards blahaj.

I'd like to reiterate that blahaj is a chill place, with chill people and that a pathetic hateful spammer will not change our stance on that.
If anything, dealing with this only strengthens our support.

Peace,

Out of curiosity, what is a blahaj?
- Blahaj as in lemmy.blahaj.zone, which this community is in.
  /waves hands around
Definitely
- You're not hateful, you're just annoying. Go spam on reddit instead.
- Spending the time to create a lot of spam and then read the hate mail in response is a choice.

Tagging @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, this is getting out of hand

It's a troll that specifically targets queer instances. They're even manually verifying the email addresses.
The reason it's getting out of hand is because getting other instances annoyed enough to defederate the queer instance is their goal
- Defederation and alienation is indeed likely their goal and I, for one, will not be giving them the satisfaction.
  We all know why bigots would target blahaj and if anything this only cements my resolve in supporting you, blahaj and their users.
  Peace
  💖
- Oh hi Ada! Any chance you can restrict registrations for a while so that everyone can get refederated and you can get things sorted?
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone , not sure yours did it as it doesn't show the link
- I tagged her on Matrix also!

Not even the user I just blocked and reported for posting gore and gay porn on random threads, is this an coordinated attack?

I think it is just one loser who doesn't have anything better to do (and who has some kind of grudge against blåhaj Lemmy or something)
- Agree. It's probably just some script kiddie thinking he's a pro hacker.

I blocked the account as soon as I saw it.

And now they are posting pictures of assholes. Just ban anything that posts that dumbass soyjak
website.

Just report the account, on feddit.de it was banned like an hour ago :)

It got nuked on my instance as well!

That account was just like a few I've seen in the last couple days, basically report everyone one of their word salad comments and then block them

They'll get removed usually pretty quick

To me it seems like a bot designed to destroy search results. Needs to be banned and all posts deleted.

Okay now it's becoming ironic

I've blocked them so I only see the number of comments going up ;)

It seems to be spamming lemmy world and lemmy ca as well with its word salad nonsense.

Edit: I just found it in kbin social.

It's spamming nearly every instance. We've really got to do something about spam on the Threadiverse.
Edit: lemmy.ml and Beehaw seem to have sorted it out quickly

The account has joined an hour ago and has posted 600 comments. That's impressive 😆

Anyways, I've blocked it. So should everyone. The mods and admins should ban the account from their respective communities and servers.

These things happen. Best not to give it a second thought.

Rate limiting for new accounts seems like a decent idea. Reddit’s “you are doing that too much” or the stupid vague error moose are annoying, but there’s no legitimate reason someone would sign up and comment 600 times in the first hour.

Still not banned, very Wierd, it has been going for 2 hours already

To be fair, it might be nightime for the admin team of that instance. I know for instance that for our instance (Jlai.lu), if that would happen during nighttime in Europe, we would probably not react within the hour.
- I understand it, but it's the second time it happened already. Usually instances have at least one mod in a different timezone so it will not be left unmoderated.

Yes please, got it spamming on my instance as well.

There are more than one, just had to block another..

@blahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone Looks like there's another one.

Yeah I think the best you can do atm is to click on their account and select the block button. Unless you want to keep an eye on what the account is up to. Either way, I've reported and blocked. I cant do more. Sorry :(

An hour has passed, and this spammer hasn't been banned yet

Edit

Huh? Hexbear?

To be fair, it might be nightime for the moderation/admin team of that instance. I know for instance that for our instance (Jlai.lu), if that would happen during nighttime in Europe, we would probably not react within the hour.
- Well, since this spammer has gone crazy on several instances
  I was thinking we need mods from different time zones.
Regarding your edit, the user behind the account took a picture from Hexbear. I saw something else yesterday on another spam account that it was from /qa/ whatever that means. 4chan?
- Yeah, Hexbear is admittedly a pretty good source for emojis, so I won't point fingers just yet.

This incident is revealing so many holes in Kbin... for instance blocking the account doesn't work, and reporting says that it doesn't work either (giving the message "We are working on resolving the issues..."), but it might be working despite that actually... I can't quite tell bc now pages 2 & 3 of this post/thread are entirely inaccessible. So moral of this story, if there is one, is that if you are on Kbin, try reporting it anyway and hope for the best outcome!:-P Edit: oh no wait, it definitely isn't working after all, bc despite that about pages 2 & 3 after posting my reply but for some reason not before, those comments are still showing up. Kbin users just need to wait it out, it seems. Edit 2: nope, it seems to actually work after all, despite how it did not look that way at first.

TLDR: Kbin users may easily get confused by the interface glitches, but while blocking someone may not work right now, reporting them may (unless it was just coincidental timing on my part), so give it a try!

It seems to be working for me. I blocked that account, reloaded this thread and their comments had disappeared.
- Oh that's interesting - are you using mobile or desktop?
  Also, on mobile, blocking seems to be working for me again (when accessing this thread via Notifications) - and instead of 3 pages there is now just 1 for this thread. Maybe I got thrown off by all the weirdness going on surrounding what happened during and after the blocking, combined with making a comment reply without reloading the page first, but I think you are right: it works after all!

I love how kbin randomly errors trying to block shit. Super, super good.