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I get that, but hear me out... it's just as likely that they're an obsessive compulsive, possibly on the autism spectrum, who can't stand letting someone have the last word.
https://neurodivergentrebel.com/2021/09/15/autism-obsessive-behavior-why-i-cant-always-let-things-go-as-an-autistic-person/
https://www.asd-forum.org.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/28892-arguing-with-other-asd-people-someone-always-has-to-have-the-last-word/
Now, I'm no clinical psychologist, I'm not competent to make that diagnosis, but I'm sure you've also seen arguments between two people incapable of letting it go.
Do not treat neuro divgerent people with training wheels.
I'm neuro divgerent and it pisses me off when people treat me differently. Yeah, I've got my shit, and I often need things explained to me with clear guidelines, rules, and expectations.
But one thing my neuro divergence doesn't grant me is the ability to act like a shit stain and get away with it while prodding everybody around me antagonisticly.
The response here is not about whether their behavior was socially acceptable, but whether it was an indication of a fake account being run by multiple people or a script or something.
I'm personally suspicious due to all those cut and pasted replies, but I suppose it's possible that's just an indication of obsession as well. I've saved text for a comment reply before, but it was because the text had a lot of citations and I was tired of refinding them each time. There doesn't seem to be a lot of reason to save and repeat "I don't have to explain anything to you. Thanks!"
Ditto!
So if I want to copy paste the same non-response 26 times, I will not get banned for it, as long as I don't say overtly mean things? I would absolutely assume that would get me perma banned if I kept doing it.
As long as it's not a non-sensical response and seems to fit the comment chain, I don't see an inherent problem there.
Example:
"Well, we agree to disagree." full stop. Discussion ended. No, I don't have an issue with that.
If the thread is 52 comments and that's posted 26 times, that is a dead thread. There is an inherent problem with that.
Posting should be an attempt to create discussion. If the poster tries to end discussion in the comments, that's just making noise. Eventually, a community of just noise will die.
Are you trolling us now?
Am I allowed to speculate about the mental health of other users as well I wonder, or is that just reserved for mods?
While I understand your concern because I knew someone who was like that personally, that person's ability and desire to constantly respond caused them a significant bit of distress, often replying to people with something like, "please stop replying because I feel compelled to say something in response."
Maybe shutting a user up every now and then would be a net positive.
"please stop replying because I feel compelled to say something in response."
Modding at that point kind of becomes:
I'd rather be on Snoopy's side than Lucy's. ;)
Mental illness aside - respectfully, if spamming isn't considered against the rules, I kind of consider that bad moderation.
Hmm... that is a good take. (Somewhat scarily, that also seems to describe me really well.)
Being on the spectrum could also explain a higher than typical screen time. I've been on these online communities in the past, and there are folks there who get online as the first thing they do when they wake up, and then go offline just right before bed. (There are good reasons for it of course - when you crave social interaction but the only medium that you can handle it is using a computer, then this sort of thing becomes more understandable.)