On Digg there’s some drama because someone registered the community “/wallstreetbets,” and the admins took it from him and gave it to one mod of the subreddit “r/wallstreetbets.”
One day later I see this discussion about how Reddit registered trademarks for some high-profile subreddits.
This could be relevant for the Threadiverse.
You’ve been caught downvoting at least 4 posts
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46465818 https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61834209 https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61834207 https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46403765
The mods of those comms do not ban from one vote.
But they said it was just once! Why would anyone lie about how much they dislike a community that exist?!
You downvoted the comment where I explain that I think there’s a technical issue so it’s not like you can claim you didn’t see it. And on top of that, their comment even demonstrates they banned me over a single downvote - are you really going to pretend like you can claim a victory here? The instance admin themselves just came in and demonstrated my criticism was absolutely correct.
So… they literally do ban from a community over one vote? Assuming your examples are right, I’ve interacted with StableDiffusionWitches once and now I’ve been banned.
Honestly, is the tool they’re using broken, or more likely just… not very good? Regardless something funky is going on, because you’re accusing me of having downvoted a post which you can see on my UI doesn’t show as having been downvoted - the other downvote in Stable Diffusion Art also just doesn’t show as something I’ve downvoted. Does the tool not account for un-downvoting content, maybe? I occasionally bump downvotes while scrolling, which I then undo - but I don’t even know if that’s what happened here.
It doesn’t really matter though - this is absurd behavior for a community to be engaging in. Even accepting the records are right, two of the four votes I’ve been condemned over were from seven months ago. That’s not “downvote troll” behavior, and it’s not even indicative of behavior from someone who cares enough that they need to “tailor their feed.”
Again, I didn’t care about them at all until I was banned from there. Now, I think they’re hypersensitive and need to be coddled so they don’t have to accept that their content is wildly unpopular with the wide userbase, and that you’re trying to defend that behavior with the weakest possible argument you could make for… some reason. Tell them to tone it down, maybe? Because this is ridiculous?
These communities routinely get people serially downvoting them and since lemmy doesn’t present a way to avoid that, they resort to banning people who are seen as only downvoting. They don’t ban on a single downvote either.
I can see your downvotes on my end. I don’t know if your software federation broke or what else happened.
They banned me from StableWerewolves and that doesn’t even have any posts for me to have downvoted. And for the more active ones, I can’t find another post I’ve interacted with in StableDiffusionWitches (or the dragons one, or several others I was banned from). Unless there’s more there that I’m not seeing I literally was banned from SDWitches because of a single downvote (from seven months ago).
I’m not saying “don’t ban the trolls”, that’s obviously fine - someone downvoting the majority of your posts across your communities isn’t interacting in good faith. But you can’t honestly say I’m a troll, I’ve got what four downvotes accross all of them, of which two might be federation issues? Should I really be getting mass-banned with a "no you’re the problem for not liking us enough >:( " message?
If I’m a troll I’m the worst troll ever, and that’s why I’m saying those mods are being hypersensitive - even in the best case that it’s not just a federation issue with the downvotes and I really did do it, I’ve gone seven months with four interactions. They need to tune whatever method they’re using to decide who’s a troll, because if that is the threshold they’re clinging to to justify how persecuted they are that is incredibly unhealthy. Even r/conservative, the biggest exclusionary echo-chamber I can think of, is more lenient with their bans than the StableDiffusion[Family] mods are being. Are they really so much more reviled than actual unapologetic nazis that they need to be this hypervigilant?
Maybe the reason they get people DMing them isn’t just that they run communities devoted to AI slop (and it’s incredibly trendy to do things like call it “AI slop” right now), but also that they’re banning people from communities with no content, for no good reason, and with a very rude victim-blaming message while they do it? And that’s a shitty thing to do?
I agree that banning for posts 7 months apart is not ideal. I’ll ask them to take it a bit less strict.
Content for c/YeVeryReasonableBastards