Sorry to hear that you didn’t like the first sentence of my post. Do you have any opinions about the following sentences about spamming the mods of a big website?
I haven’t expressed any opinion about drug advertisements at all, in any way. It’s a bit of a bummer that my poking fun at a (from my perspective as an adult) misguided naive spammer is seen as the same thing as supporting crime.
Serious question: Is everybody that would consider this individual, for example, a “fucking idiot that got predictably banned” also a supporter of crime?
Are you aware that the style your are posting, is very close to trolling?
In either way, I think you have it all backward, maybe intentionally.
Op did spam fighting. And was banned for it.
(Or is LinkedIn nowdays a market plattform for drugs?)
But what your point actually is, is not entirely clear to me. But it is not close to arguing in good faith, which would be the style of discussion I prefer around here.
Sorry that “trolling” means “disagreeing with me” that must suck. Thankfully that’s not an issue I have.
Why is it so important that we elevate the experience of a person that objectively used linkedin wrong and was kicked out? What do you get out of maintaining your position and siding with the backseat modding? Are you looking for modding work?
You so far called the OP of this thread (who is a member here), "rando spammer", "misguided", "naive" and "fucking idiot". Considering that that it seems even a Microsoft employee offered support to him, it seems that you're alone in your opinion. Also please take some time to self reflect that maybe those adjectives you used apply to you instead.
Do you think that it’s possible that the OP was not the victim of a large coordinated criminal conspiracy? That is what has been implied and discussed and I’m “trolling” by suggesting that that was not the case.
Edit: Also, food for thought: I genuinely did not know you could buy drugs through linkedin. In the OP’s complaint I’ve been informed of what website to go to, what app to install, and what search terms I should use to get into contact with drug dealers.
Should the OP be reported for illegal speech or is that just relegated to jpegs?
You called other member here some terrible stuff that was uncalled for, and now you're suggesting they're advertising drugs on HN. You're a troll, and you're being asshole to another member.
I don't care about your cuckoo fantasy theories and nobody else does. You're out of your depth and out of your mind if you think any of your ideas make sense.
So, stop the trolling and stop trying to save face.
Do you think that it is possible that the OP is not the victim of a criminal conspiracy?
Edit: I don’t really understand the position of “you said a swear word so I will fundamentally disagree with your underlying point.”
If the OP has said fuck or piss or shit while describing their experience of being the victim of a criminal conspiracy, would your position on this matter reflect mine?
Thank you for your unsolicited advice, but I implore you to provide your (very simple) solicited opinion from the first sentence of this post. Namaste.
Quit your bullshit. I never said swear words were a problem anywhere. Trough this discussion you keep misrepresenting what me and another poster have said to match your silly fantasy narrative. You've been caught being disrespectful, pedantic, troll-ish and frankly a tad unintelligent. So stop trying to save face by pretending you're legitimately having a discussion. You got a lot to improve before that. Maybe start with reading the guidelines, then proceed to actually read what people reply to you. Four of your posts are flagged/dead, so your opinion isn't exactly popular.
About the last paragraph: I don't care about what you think or if anything I say is solicited by you or not.
Once again, I never said anything about this "theory", pal. Stop implying that I did. If you gotta restort to mocking, attacking others and putting words in their mouths to "win" an argument others aren't even participating, then you're already a loser from the get go. Goodbye.
Since modding work would require me to deal with people like you all day long, hell no.
I was actually just trying to give you an advice, maybe for self reflexion, to help you understand, why your posts are not welcome here. You are free to decline that advice and I do not feel responsible for you and have actually other things to deal with.
I’ll try explaining this again, as someone who used to moderate content professionally.
There are certain groups of users that you generally _HAVE_ to ban for a functioning community. Spammers, scammers, criminals, nazis and… so as to not offend you, “people that apparently lack fundamental understanding of, well, anything”
This last group is often the worst group to deal with because while they’re not directly harming the community they are sucking up your time that could be spent banning pedophiles or identity thieves or drug dealers. They often suck up an immense amount of time by filling up your reports queue and are sure that their issue deserves your immediate attention, and if you don’t drop what you’re doing and address their issues instantly, they complain. This means you have to take more time away from moderating to field emails in addition to de-cluttering your queue.
It is absolutely crucial to ban these types of spammers, otherwise you can’t do anything productive. Generally this type of ban is temporary unless the self-appointed mod is particularly egregious.
And then there is a subset of these people: let’s call them “crusaders.” This group will make as much noise as possible offsite in order to Own The Mods. They might even invent a conspiracy theory about a shadowy underground group that has it out for them.
OP could have reported one account and included a note saying “this phenomenon is happening when you search this keyword.” They did not do that. They decided to tackle the issue themselves. When their mod queue spam got them banned, they whined as publicly as possible, which takes up even more time that could’ve been spent actually removing drug dealers.
The inclusion of “illegal imagery” in the complaint was factually wrong, and since moderators have to deal with a LOT of reports, it absolutely makes sense why this was ignored. When you say “illegal imagery”, in some cases that means child pornography or state secrets or any number of things that are meaningful to somebody whose job it is to moderate content.
So to summarize: I am certainly not the only person to consider this person a “fucking idiot”, I’m just the only one that said that on here.
(You can just respond “no”)