Yes, but not one made by Apple.

Kinda stopped messing with !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca after getting some brutally vitriolic PMs and posts.

Turns out people on Lemmy don’t want to discuss, they just want to tell me that I am stupid and hateful for daring to have a discussion about anything they like while using anything approaching a questioning tone.

That’s just the ones on TV.

I’m an economist and many of us don’t have much to do with currency economies and could be better described as “find the root cause experts.”

Hell, I use my skills in the IT field.

Apple and Mac come to mind.

So… I’ve been meaning to have an actual conversation with someone about this, but isn’t this kind of the way everybody here feels about the right wing?

Like… Aren’t they also kind of stupid, kind of weak, and kind of incredibly dangerous?

I totally agree that it’s definitely not “too soon” for me, but I’m not a risk averse studio head

Oh, I get it. Maybe he could have detonated a bomb or something, I’m just simply stating why they might have done it.

My guess is that they probably didn’t want to elicit 9/11 imagery. The original ending is better, without a doubt, but I could definitely see studio heads balking at that.

Games writers maybe. There haven’t been 1200 games journalists operating at the same time ever. There were a lot of people at a lot of sites simply regurgitating news, but that is definitely not what a journalist is. They are extremely different disciplines.

Yes. I tried to be. Interacted with lots of people who “felt” and “spoke with” God and never personally heard or felt anything despite begging and pleading. I was led to think something was wrong with me because I couldn’t.

Read about 6 versions of the Bible including a very early hand-made one in Saudi Arabia that was recovered from one of the churches that were destroyed during the Crusades. It still had reincarnation in it for normal people and not just Jesus.

Read the Gnostic Bible, other removed texts, and dead sea scrolls once they were translated.

Interacted with many other religions while I travelled finding they all believed just as or more strongly than everyone back home and also “felt” and were “spoken to” by God and wouldn’t you know it, God told each and every of them that they were right. Funny how God does that.

Became completely non-religious, but very interested in the study of it and how people interacted with it.

During this time, my mother became a pastor. I came home and had one talk with her and she broke down in tears and asked me to never speak about religion with her again because I knew more than her and had nearly destroyed her faith in about 20 minutes. She told me that if she ever lost it, she’s kill herself. Afterwards, she chose God over her kids every time.

I didn’t speak to her much for about 22 years. She died of cancer last year, but it was religion that took my mother from me long before that.

Actually, I’ve been unbanned from 10 of those subs due to this post because it was found to be an unjust ban. Also, are you able to point at the part where I stated I was anti-image generation, or are you just being standard-issue internet hostile?

Oh, I’m aware, but they weren’t as exposed as they are since 19.10 made them easily visible to Mods. It was MUCH harder to get downvote totals prior.

Just one more for the road since I think the thread is dying down and I don’t like leaving things on a negative note.

It takes some bravery to dip into a thread discussing issues and I wanted to say thanks for clearing what you did up. I may not agree, but I can understand it at least. It’s important to remember the human on the other end. Moderating can be hard, and so can finding the line you feel you should walk. Thanks for running a Community on Lemmy. Shit’s not easy sometimes.

Still nope. Geez, you are really dedicated to thinking the worst thing you can about people, hey?

I didn’t say unfairly banned. I was confused as to why I was banned.

I did downvote one post near the time of the ban. I didn’t look prior to that. 4 posts downvoted in ten months isn’t normally something I’d associate with a ban. People don’t generally ban for things that happened ten months ago. Especially since the votes were reasonably more private back then.

It’s all one story. The same story. It evolved as I discovered more about what occurred. It’s called learning. Make an attempt to do so as well please.

Just FYI, I’m not downvoting you.

The bad faith actors should be somewhat easy to pick out. They are in my Community anyway. They often have scads of downvotes they throw out in a short time, not a few over the course of months. Dunno if you are, but if you’re using automation to ban, you may just want to tune it to be a little more lenient.

It’s perfectly distinguishable unless you’re trying real hard to misinterpret what I said. As a Mod of a small Community myself, here’s the difference in downvotes:

1. Bad Faith Actor: Sees a post or a whole Community they don’t like. Goes in and systematically downvotes a bunch of stuff on purpose. Topics, responses… everything. Downvotes because they hate the community and everything it stands for. See 50 downvotes in your Community in one day? That’s these fuckers. Ban them. They are assholes and are vote manipulating. Probably ban them from related Communities for vote manipulation.

2. Normal User: (–> We are here) May or may not comment in YOUR Community, especially if it’s image-based. Sees a single post that they don’t like out of thousands they see daily and downvotes it. Several months later, it may happen again. This is expected behaviour and is how an upvote / downvote system functions. Don’t ban these or you’re the asshole.

3. Brigade Users: A coordinated attack to downvote or spam a Community stemming from some other place. They downvote everything and often post garbage. Ban these people. They are assholes and are vote manipulating. Probably ban them from related Communities for vote manipulation if not trying to seek an instance ban.

4. Lurker: (The overwhelming majority of users are this) Indistinguishable from a Normal user in votes, but may not comment. May be an alt or bot account. Be wary. Check their post history to see if they’re real people. If real, leave 'em alone. If empty, use your discretion. Don’t ban from related Communities.

5. Other: Downvotes accidentally when scrolling sometimes. These happen. May appear as a Lurker or a Normal User. Don’t ban these or you’re the asshole.

Hope that helps!

I don’t understand the thought process here. Like many, I don’t browse Communities individually, I browse /All and sort by New.

So I am required to see something I like and upvote or else I am not allowed to an express an opinion in the community (or any tangentially linked community)?

If I see something I don’t like (which is what the voting system is for), I should go to the Community it’s posted in and make sure to upvote things before I downvote? That’s the expected order of operations?

If not… what if, while browsing /All /New nothing randomly appears that the viewer likes enough to upvote? Is that then somehow the fault of the viewer and they should then be banned?

Am I interpreting your rulings correctly? 4 downvotes in the span of 10 months (judging by the times on those posts you listed) is a bannable offence? Seems rather heavy-handed to me.

We found the answer (kinda)! It was @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

“Create more slop” is, in fact, a message I disagree with rather strongly and did downvote that (and only that) post. I PM’d the the mod in response to that post:

Brigading is organized. I, a single person, downvoted one post I saw in /All because it is actively content with a message I do not care for or agree with. Bad form would be going through everything in the community and downvoting. I didn’t do that either. What I had done is called “using the platform as intended.” And you overreacted with a ban.

So we’ve effectively solved the first part, but not the three Stable Diffusion parts… Those also seem to line up with another single downvote a month later. Again, hardly brigading or vote manipulation.

EDIT: Huh. Looks like we had someone in this thread downvoting nearly every post in here.

Not doing either, actually. After the post was found it linked things up and, as I explained elsewhere, this still stems from one downvote on the thread you see above. “Create More Slop” is a message I disagree with. Slop is just garbage generated content, not even intentionally made stuff. Just… low-tier trash. Not really into destroying the planet for less-than-shitposting purposes.

Oh! That explains it! “Create more slop” is, in fact, a message I disagree with rather strongly and did downvote that (and only that) post. I PM’d the the mod in response to that post:

Brigading is organized. I, a single person, downvoted one post I saw in /All because it is actively content with a message I do not care for or agree with. Bad form would be going through everything in the community and downvoting. I didn’t do that either. What I had done is called “using the platform as intended.” And you overreacted with a ban.