There’s not really a way to “source” this until a scientist decides to create a longitudinal study on how people refer to themselves. I’ve never seen one, but maybe one exists. I think this one’s going to have to pretty much remain a personal experience kind of thing for now!

I don’t think our two statements are mutually exclusive. There’s certainly a difference between education and being smart.

EDIT: if you disagree, what is someone smart before they get into school? Not smart? In countries where they don’t have formal education systems, is nobody intelligent over there?

Is someone who went to school for 10 years automatically considered smart? That would mean that more school equals more smart. How about somebody who got held back and had to repeat a grade six times? Are they extra smart then? How about those that did so well in school that they skipped a grade? Are they not smart then?

Your logic doesn’t hold up, random disagreeing people. There is absolutely a difference between education and being smart.

“Street smart is what stupid people call themselves when they want to describe themselves as smart.”

• My Name Is Earl

I hope they change it, I’ve not really clicked with the real time FF games.

The best turn based combat system that I personally ever played has been the Mario RPG games because of the button prompt requirements for bonus damage. I haven’t played CO yet though.

No, this is some other user who was in here earlier by another name spouting the same stuff and posting pictures of dog wangs.

This isn’t really my style. I tend to prefer info seeking and conversational English over animal dicks and blind fury.

Mods or Admin can. I can’t.

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?

I was subscribed to one of the communities that I was banned from and was in there pretty regularly.

If I’m unbanned or not, that is ultimately up to the mods. I’m not really stumping for it one way or the other.

My main purpose here would be essentially to say that these kinds (multi-community, permanent, and over very light and expected interactions from normal people) of bans are not justified and perhaps mods should rethink the process and not assume the worst of everyone.

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.

Non-biased explanation: in the initial image, you can see two “ban waves.”

The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community.

The other bans from two months ago are from four 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: Added the info to the initial post along with some more explanation now that we’ve uncovered it. Should hopefully save me from having to go over it constantly.

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.

If on the web (not a mobile client), you can click the three dots with the arrow pointing down under any post (including yours) and hit “NAME Moderation History”. It’ll show you what mod actions have been taken on you.

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.

Maybe. Just I case, I wouldn’t interact. I would report it to an Admin most likely.

From what I’ve seen, most Admins will either not let that stand or sadly lead the charge on the psycho shit.

If it’s the first, you’re good. It’ll be gone soon.

If it’s the latter, get the hell outta that instance and block it.

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.