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Don’t forget all the Jan 6th insurrectionists that were pardoned!

Exactly, what work?

High school chearleading coach.

There is no reason to waste time trying to make sense of the word vomit.

And the death toll would have been higher if we just let it spread freely before vaccinations were available.

The bubonic plague did reach and equilibrium. It never went away, it just mutated enough to not kill us so fast.

Same with the flu that was called ‘Spanish flu’ as a slur in the US around 1918 that was extremely lethal.

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not.

Rodents and house cats are famous for wiping out native species when introduced to new areas.

I had hundreds of thousands of karma and tens of thousands of comments on reddit over nearly a decade, maybe half of what I do here. Avoided the really popular subs, which probably had something to do with it.

No thanks. The vast, vast majority of the userbase and moderation here is better.

One of the main complaints from reddit was that people would be banned from communities for simply subbing to certain communities, or expressing views in other communities. This was mainly an issue with the supermods or whatever they were called that were mods of tons of communities and they handed out mass bans for ridiculous stuff and use those actions to justify further mod action in a death spiral.

We have reached that on several fediverse instances where a few mods that oversee multiple communities, sometimes with one mod across instances, and they are acting as if any down votes are malicious and intentional and using each other’s moderation to justify further bans.

It is actually even more entertaining for me because I was never banned on reddit, so I’ve been banned from communities here for simply expressing a dislike of AI and down voting a few AI posts. That’s right, the moderation in the fediverse has even more petty tyrants than I ever ran into on reddit.

Anyone using a tool that does mass down voting is horrible and deserves bans.

That is not likely to be the case here, because a lot of mods are assuming that any down votes are brigading if they see any kind of pattern to it. Like a few people browsing All and New down voting a terrible post shortly after it is posted are accused of brigading.

No, it is just shitty moderation practices that have a negative outcome. Nobody is coming for me, I just happened to get caught in the same net.

Learn to read.

Oh, we get to throw insults around? Didn’t think that was the case but have fun I guess.

Just pointing out that every time this has come up in YPTB it is an overreacting mod hiding behind the ‘anti AI harassment or brigading’ while the explanation is a few people happened to downvote a few things. I don’t doubt there have been a few people doing that, but absolutely not enough to justify Draconic Leo’s moderation log filled to the brim with accusations of bote manipulation. Pointing things out isn’'t sealioning, nor is having a conversation in the comments of the same post.

Here you go though, what comment(s) in my moderation or posting history are harassment?

The answer is none, the accusation in the bans is a lie.

Yes, have you?

Acting like my moderation history is accurate when shitty mods treat a few downvotes as manipulation is the biggest part of the problem. You are taking their word for it that their moderation is accurate when it is not. The list is long because one mod did like a dozen of them at the same time.

That is the perfect example of why this is a problem!

The other one is jet at hackernews who has a bot that bans people for a single downvote and he has bragged about it right here in YPTB! Some of those bans are cross instance because they mod communities on multiple instances and banned all of them. It is the action of three or four ridiculously over the top mods.

It’s like talking to a wall.

I have yet to see an example of any individual post getting more than a handful of downvotes, which is completely expected to happen when hundreds or thousands of users have the opportunity to come across the content. That isn’t harassment, and neither is people vocalizing their dislike of AI in comments.

If people are being harassed, then there should be moderation records, right? Are there dozens of people harassing people who like AI, or is the ‘constant harassment’ just disagreement that has been blown out of proportion by people who run communities that don’t get the attention they think they deserve?

My one vote per post or comment is jot part of any problem. That is how voting works. I don’t coordinate with anyone else, it is just me using a feature that exists the way I want to.

Four downvotes across months means absolutely nothing. Nada. It is a statical blip.

Disengage

One downvote says nothing, several indicate a pattern.

Not spread over months they don’t.

It takes literally microseconds to to up or down vote as opposed to writing a multiparagraph comment about how other people are ‘down voting wrong’.

The default version of up and down votes are described in the lemmy docs, which I agree with, and this instance and community do not have rules that supersede it.

Lemmy uses a voting system to sort post listings. On the left side of each post there are up and down arrows, which let you upvote or downvote it. You can upvote posts that you like so that more users will see them, or downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen.

It was such a ridiculously irrelevant point to make that the post was worse for having it. If you feel my comments are the same, feel free to down vote them.

I subscribe and am usually filtersd to subscriptions but also switch to All occasionally to help discover new communities.