What's the best way to deal with a genuinely malicious troll who constantly says the evidence against him is slander when it's not?

Submitted ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ILoveDurians@lemmy.cafe⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

Let’s say the troll mass reports people and says to mods he’s being slandered just to shut the evidence down hoping the mods don’t look at the incriminating links (to his own content) before banning the people calling him out

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Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Move on with your life and don’t engage.

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- ILoveDurians@lemmy.cafe ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Said troll vandalises their victim’s posts by posting slander, including to other people (if the person has blocked them), though.
  
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  - Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    If it bothers you that much, you can always just make a new account to lose the tail - because that’s exactly what they’ll do once you finally get them banned or whatever your endgame is.
    
    Just block and move on. It’s an anonymous message board. Someone following you around and “vandalizing” your posts is completely meaningless. They’re wasting their time - you’ve already won.
    
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  - Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Sounds like a dick, but my advice remains the same. Not worth your time or worry.
    
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trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Report & block

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CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You seem to want to win a battle against an internet troll. The only way to do that is to starve them.

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- ILoveDurians@lemmy.cafe ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I used to think that, but this troll in particular posts slander/accusations to make the victim look bad. If the victim blocks the troll the troll posts the slander on their own profile or to other people, all while name dropping them.
  
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  - dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Who gives a shit if the troll posts slander on their own profile about the victims? Just don’t go to their profile. Problem solved.
    
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Klear@quokk.au ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Stop feeding them.

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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
DO NOT FEED THE TROLL

That said I have myself experienced situations where the mods don’t seem to see what’s really going on… What can you do, it’s not a democracy.

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- ILoveDurians@lemmy.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Several issues with that though:
  
  The troll is spreading slander about their victim
  
  If the victim blocks the troll, the troll posts the slander elsewhere, while name-dropping the victim so the slander will appear in the search results.
  
  The troll is mass-reporting the victim for false reasons to get them banned
  
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  - heydo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Here’s a wonderful thing about the internet, you don’t have to give a fuck about it.
    
    If you get off the internet and go to the store, no one is going to give a fuck about what some idiot said about you online.
    
    If you go to visit family, none of them are going to ask you about what some goddamn dumbass said about you online.
    
    My advice is to stop stressing about what people say about you online. It has no value, there is no substance to it. Nobody on here knows you, no one knows what makes you, you. You’re just text on a screen here.
    
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  - A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I know the situation. You have to trust that other people are just as able to recognize a troll when they see one. If the mods are too stupid to see it, as I said, there isn’t much you can do except maybe report to someone above them?
    
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princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
if a user is causing that much disruption amd harassing people you could message the admin(s) of the user’s instance explaining the situation, provide evidence, and hope they’ll ban the user

if the user is banned and creates another account, repeat

if the user is on an instance that won’t ban them, contact the admins of other instances to have that instance deferated

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- ILoveDurians@lemmy.cafe ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Not on Lemmy, but Bluesky and YouTube
  
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xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Block, ignore and be patient. They will eventually loose interest. Key is to not engage in any way. Don’t be tempted. They want it. You don’t give it.

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slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That’s not a troll, that is what I call a fuckwit.

But fun thing, comments on Lemmy can never be slander, because slander requires a verbal component.

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- princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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XiELEd@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Man these people in the comment section are lucky to think that when you simply just ignore someone, the harassment ends.

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celeste@kbin.earth ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Report and if mods and admins ignore it and it keeps happening, go into a lighter version of "I'm being stalked" mode and start a new account with no reference to the old one. They "win" and you move on with your life.

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njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
On Lemmy in particular? Make a new account. Easily the best and easiest solution.

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- ILoveDurians@lemmy.cafe ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Not on Lemmy but Bluesky and YouTube.
  
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  - FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    reach out to the respective mods and report them. this isn’t trolling. it’s targeted harassment. you can report the entire acount on bsky, by going to their profile page and clicking the three-dot menu and selecting “report account.” that’s probably the best way to start. I think if there was no more dialog, or the account didn’t go poof, I’d follow that up with their support form asking for a status update. (and maybe dropping screenshots. If you don’t have screenshots, get them. )
    
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