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RIP. I'm sure he'll be back with alts, but here are the final stats:
UniversalMonk stats pulled 10/25/2024, 3:20:53 PM EDT
- Account created 78 days ago (8/8/2024, 9:21:38 PM EDT)
- 6,272 submissions (= 2,017 posts + 4,255 comments)
- 80.4 avg submissions / day
- 11.9 mins avg time between submissions (assuming 8 hrs of sleep / day)
87,814 downvotes accrued (~ 1,126 downvotes / day, 0.20 u:d ratio)
- -70,379 net reputation score
- ~ 1.3 mins between downvotes on avg
- ~ 14.9 avg downvotes / submission
- ~ 13.2 avg downvotes / comment
- ~ 19.5 avg downvotes / post
- ~ -11.4 avg reputation score / comment
- ~ -13.4 avg reputation score / post
~ 16 typed pages (3,789 words) written / day
- 236,631 total words written as comments, 58,852 total words written in posts
- ~ 76 mins / day writing comments (40 wpm)
- ~ 32 mins / day making posts (40 wpm + 30 secs / post)
- ~ 108 mins / day
- 11.2% of their waking hours
None of this takes into account time reading others' posts/comments, or alts this user may have. See the modlog for any communities they've been banned from.
Top 5 duplicate submissions (of 914 exact matches and 683 which are 70%+ similar)
- spoiler 27 x 'Thank you! :)'
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12996083
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12216542
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11817818
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11735320
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11735955
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11735366
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12309396
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12212813
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11743878
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12912489
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12685591
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12788399
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11982633
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12884524
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12937855
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12923452
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12859415
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11682549
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12798832
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12937851
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12311578
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12804112
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12804403
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12787248
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12787595
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12307738
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12950616 :::
27 x 'Thank you! :)'
- https://lemmy.world/comment/13002846
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12216542
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11817818
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11735320
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11735955
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11735366
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12309396
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12212813
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11743878
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12912489
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12685591
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12788399
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11982633
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12884524
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12937855
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12923452
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12859415
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11682549
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12798832
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12937851
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12311578
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12804112
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12804403
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12787248
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12787595
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12307738
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12950616
26 x 'Thank you!'
- https://lemmy.world/comment/13002846
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12996083
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11817818
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11735320
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11735955
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11735366
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12309396
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12212813
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11743878
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12788399
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11982633
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12884524
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12937855
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12923452
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12859415
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11682549
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12798832
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12937851
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12311578
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12815359
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12804112
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12804403
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12787248
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12787595
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12307738
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12950616
22 x 'Yep!'
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12317674
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12328732
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12366231
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12521594
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12478780
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12894213
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12650451
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12119855
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12610600
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12795033
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11999485
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12820772
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12923437
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12882018
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12938868
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12805136
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12348685
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12698185
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11850822
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12805530
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12909916
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12713610
22 x 'Agreed.'
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12317444
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12453161
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12745932
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11714325
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12605087
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12721797
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12516191
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12264458
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12278119
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12323465
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12323502
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11904886
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12278155
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12693001
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12840119
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11680050
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12132035
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12270853
- https://lemmy.world/comment/11794705
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12909898
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12805534
- https://lemmy.world/comment/12131410
Fetch user stats yourself with: https://codeberg.org/p00perNickel/lemmy-user-stats
I do have to admit to feeling at least a little validated for having called him out way more for his pattern of behavior when it came to interactions with other users as opposed to his posts. His posts were bad but the way he engaged with anyone and everyone was downright toxic. /politics is a better place with him banned, and now Lemmy will be a better place for him being gone. I'm sure he's still out there on some platform playing the poor victim, as I doubt this was a "teachable moment", but I sincerely hope he gets help somewhere. It's cliché, but that dude had issues.
I couldn't agree with you more. Thank you for calling him out. I can definitely say that comments like yours help me keep my resolve and think "it's not just me! Everyone can see it!"
If you and others hadnt kept calling him on his shit I would've eventually probably just stopped using Lemmy tbh. Users like that absolutely shit in the pool. I'm sure he'd have a lot of whining to do about how he was persecuted for having a different point of view but we all know that was bullshit. Luckily we don't have to endure that whining!
While you're all here we should take a moment to recognize that folks like universalmonk are mentally ill and need help!
We can all take a few moments after having seen what unadulterated brain-worms can do to a person and share thoughts on how we could better the metal-healthcare field.
Talk to your friends, talk to your coworkers, message your favorite politician! We can change the world and limit the number of people who behave like universalmonk.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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