Unruffled [they/them] @ Flatworm7591 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Wait, what does your wife look like?

Did I accidentally sign up for this service?

Dork lol

It does make sense and thanks for explaining your position and showing some compassion.

I just don't know 100% what the best thing to do here is. We're all just kinda sick of the constant trolling. And while I acknowledge the bans have caused some drama, most of the yptb posts about them, with a couple of exceptions, have turned out to be from some of the worst offenders.

I really think a lot of this problem could be easily engineered away by turning off downvotes from external instances or something similar. But the way lemmy development is going, I'm not holding my breath for those options. If we end up getting a piefed instance, I'll think I'll be recommending all the genAI communities move there.

I do think we probably need to have an admin team discussion about downvote bans in general and set some firmer guidelines for mods.

What we are talking about is the systematic and ongoing harassment of this mod by anti genAI trolls, who are perfectly happy to use tranphobic abuse, misgendering, threats of violence, calls to suicide, and any number of other hateful tactics to bully and harass the mod, simply for having the temerity to like genAI as a hobby.

Mystic has adopted proactive bans to protect zir mental health as much as anything else. The exact same type of harassment happens towards blajah users, just for existing. To be honest, I suspect some of the anti-trans trolls have changed focus to trolling about genAI, because this mod also happens to be trans. So it's a 2x bonus target for them :(

I'd be more concerned if instance bans were being handed out like candy for downvoting, but they aren't. They are nearly all community bans from just a small handful of communities. Is it really a big deal getting a random ban from a community you don't particularly care about in order to help protect the mod of that community from a harassment campaign? Since you like your Socrates, which one of those two things is worse? Which one is more likely to lead to self harm or psychological damage?

Unfortunately, some folks get caught up in these bans where it turns out they were just going about their day. I can understand people getting upset with copping a ban they feel they didn't deserve. But if you send a quick DM to the mod explaining your case, I'm pretty sure they will be willing to unban you.

Can you describe what you mean by a normie? I'm genuinely curious.

Hate the game, not the player.

I'm going to leave these comments up as a clear demonstration of the "good intentions" of the anti genAI trolls.

While acknowledging that not all anti genAI folks are arseholes and trolls, there appears to be a significant proportion who are just that and need to be dealt with accordingly.

For those folks that get caught up in the mod actions, you can always appeal by sending a polite note to the mod involved. But maybe also have a think about the company you are keeping as well, and also please consider simply blocking the communities which have policies you don't like.

Check the top of the post again, I've provided an update.

thank you for your attention to this matter

thank you for your service patriot

Ok, I actually didn't notice you weren't the first commenter. In that case I retract my previous comment. PTB.

I think this is the link you want - https://p.lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/lemmy.dbzer0.com/35725820

Yeah this proposal isn't gonna pass in any case, so its a bit of a moot point now.

It looks to me like Sunshine actually did answer your question (she wanted more people to see the post). But you just replied that it wasn't "the answer you were looking for" and kept badgering her about it. It's not against our instance rules to editorialize article titles anyway, so I don't know what your problem with it was, since you never actually expressed it afaik.

So in this case, it seems like a BPR or YDI.

Good point.

Unlike you, I need my 8 hours of sleep lol.

For posterity, secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world and secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world were home instance banned.

But a vote for Kamala will stop this, right?

It's an instance wide rule, not community specific. But given the commenter who used it didn't use it correctly (it's not supposed to be used to have the last word) I'm not going to ban you. Just because you are ignorant of our instance rules doesn't mean they don't apply to you.

True.

I'm barefoot right now for no reason, so gonna mark this as 50% completed.