Announcing the Stalin Battalion: You have my blessing to dunk on reactionaries that wander on Lemmygrad

Might be worth responding with a standard text about the way to ask questions.

Something like (perhaps worded more simply):

We appreciate good faith questions and engagement at Lemmygrad. If that is why you are here, welcome; we do not want to put you off. However, your question/post/comment includes problematic claims/statements that are not conducive to good faith discussion. The problem might be: anti-communism, historical inaccuracy, revisionism, reactionary talking points, bigotry, liberal propaganda, a loaded question, assuming that we will all agree about what you might think are uncontroversial facts, or something else. If you re-word your question we can have a more productive conversation.

If they come back with loads more bullshit, their sealioning will be more obvious. And we won't unintentionally start dunking on the people who just don't know any better.

Adding to the other suggestion, what I've found to work some times is just asking them to elaborate on their questions if they are too low effort. If they're spending more time trying to actually provide proper questions, that's time they're not spending spamming. Also works well with the accidental questions that do actually look like sealioning. Something like:

Isn't China really authoritarian though?

Could you explain what do you mean concretely by "authoritarian" and how that differs from other countries that would be less so?

Takes very little effort too.

Thanks

users saluting the admins, with admins saluting back

I mean. Fuck all governments but why support a shitbag like stalin?

I suggest we all agree Stalin was no superhero and no villain, he just did what he did. He allowed for the insane levels of industrialization and has shown himself as a strong leader during the WWII, but he also held authoritarian grip on power, held political and other prisoners in inhumane conditions, and was the one to make LGBT illegal in the USSR.

Stop glorifying or demonizing him, that's all I'm saying. The rest is true.

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

if someone makes an emoji for it I'll add it lol

Also remember we have custom emojis, including emojis to dunk on libs

We don' need no steenkin' badges.

If your account was approved on Lemmygrad you have nothing to worry about. I don't know if you know (some people don't), but Lemmygrad is federated with other instances on Lemmy. Essentially people from other websites running the same software can interact on Lemmygrad. We like having this cross-traffic, but some people make alt accounts for the sole reason of trolling us on Lemmygrad.

Up to you, your lemmygrad account has less risk to be caught in the crossfire because we look at the instance first before we issue bans (on the basis that we have account requests on Lemmygrad so if someone has a Lemmygrad account, we know they shouldn't be a reactionary).

Also, sorry for the multiple posting. I was getting "Network Error" after trying to comment.