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 @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.
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...
Don't know who the hell you are, but you certainly aren't me.
Judging by the deleted posts that you also made under this and another username, somebody has a massive and quite unhinged hatred for a specific mod.
Well that about sums up the FuckAI community, sadly. This sort of abuse happens quite frequently towards mods of genAI communities. I know it's not all of them that conduct this sort of campaign, but when you lie down with dogs you're gonna get up with fleas.
Maybe it wouldn't happen if the admins at sh.itjust.works actually acted like fucking admins and did something about it. Every time one of these draconicneo posts comes along, there's some nazi transphobe loser making spam accounts. it's fucking disgraceful they let it happen.
It happens towards the mods of a lot of communities. I've had it on my Community !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca and we're just about discussing random topics. I know my buddy that mods a Vegan Community gets it constantly, as well as the one person in this thread that mods a Carnivore diet Community. It's pretty tragic that people can''t handle opposing opinions.
I think the activist nature of Lemmy is kind of a self-destructive spiral and people need to learn how to live with each other again. But I guess that's the issue with modern social media as a whole... Nobody has any idea how to convince anyone else, only to yell at them louder.