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submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).

Important notes:

  1. I don't use scripts.
  2. I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
  3. Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything.
  4. Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
  5. One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
  6. I don't troll.

WTF is going on here?

EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."

The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @[email protected] See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.

The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.

I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 19 hours ago

Db0ero is explicitely pro AI

I would guess the Mod has gone full shizo and banned you from the whole instance and everywhere he could because you downvoted an AI generated image.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I don't make it a habit of downvoting images simply because they're AI-gen, but there are well-done ones and horrible ones just like any images. Do they really ban for simply downvoting ANY AI image? That's... kind of a lot.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 19 hours ago

I'm still trying to get my head around people giving votes that much attention. Maybe Lemmy has started getting refugees from other places that live and die by the arrows.

Someone go in there and do the same thing and see what happens. I would but you've probably picked up on my apathy by this point.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Because votes = views.

If you make something and it instantly gets to -2 within seconds because of bot/trolls it means no one will ever see it.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago

Well luckily it was just AI slop and they didn't actually make anything.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Well luckily it was just AI slop and they didn’t actually make anything.

Meh, I actually have a very successful side business selling things with AI slop all over them. So there is something I make with it: money. I make more money from that than my retirement check. lol

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

That's very capitalist of you

[-] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

That's embarrassing. I'm surprised you would admit that even in pseudonymity.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Embarrassing for you, maybe. Obviously, not embarrassing for me.

I’m just riding the wave while it lasts. I don’t treat it like a real job. More like skimming cream off the top while the corrupt capitalist system lumbers along. I know the window for making money this way is probably short, but that just makes it sweeter.

The megacorps are raking in billions, and I get to sneak in, steal the product that they've already stolen, and laugh all the way to my tiny bank. They build the machines, pump out the slop, and flood the world with it. I just show up with a spoon.

Picture a giant bull in a field, stuffing its face. Flies swarm around it, laying eggs in the shit. And I'm a little scruffy bird perched on its back, snacking on the flies and soaking up the ride. The bull does all the work. I just feast on the ecosystem it creates.

I grow fat off the slop that megacorp capitalists overproduce. I use them, instead of them using me. That's the game, friend. Delicious.

You're fighting a fight you can't win. AI isn't going anywhere. I'm just adapting to the situation. And laughing.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

"Fuck you, i got mine"-ass comment.

Despicable.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Creativity is in the idea.

Drawing is dexterity not creativity.

What is important is that what they made reflected what they wanted to, not that they used a pencil or a stylus.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Disagree. Creativity is in the idea, the composition, and the execution.
A prompter hardly even has the idea in the first place.

On top of that: "drawing" is labor.

[-] [email protected] -5 points 15 hours ago

Preach, brother!

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