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:
- I don't use scripts.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
- 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.
EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...
Me taking glee in stealing from a capitalist megacorp is not a "fuck you, I got mine" comment. You can do the exact same thing I'm doing.
I like and use AI. You can too, but you choose not to. That's all on you.
You're taking glee in stealing from artists.
You abandon your fellow humans in pursuit of gargling capitalist balls.
You are Fuck you; got mine-ing the humans that the capitalists are feeding to the machine.
I have no respect for that, nor you.
I'm not stealing from any artists. I'm stealing from the capitalist megacorporations that stole from artists. Also, throughout my entire career I worked as a professional artist.
This is a pro-AI instance. Get used to it.
No, because you can do the same thing I am doing. Nothing is stopping you, except for your hate of AI.
I don't care. You don't pay my bills. :)