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(^The comment I was banned for on /c/Palestine)

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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 79 points 10 months ago (5 children)

One thing I don't like over here on Lemmy is that when a mod action happens against you you don't get a notification of any kind. So unless you check the mod logs you'll typically never know something happened.

NGL I'm half tempted to make a bot that crawls the mod logs to tell people when something happens to their posts or comments.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] amio@kbin.run 13 points 10 months ago

Presumably it'd interfere with .ml etc censoring dissenting (i.e. sane) opinions, which is why it's not happening. Same as how instance blocking was like pulling teeth

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe there's no good answer 'cause I'm on an app, but how do you even check the modlogs.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On the sidebar of every community in lemmy-ui is a link to the modlog. For example, here's a screenshot of this community's sidebar:

Unfortunately on Jerboa I couldn't find any way to get to the modlog. Don't know about other apps.

You can also navigate to /modlog on your instance. e.g. https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/modlog. Unfortunately it's not very easy to use, and it's not always clear. For example, when I loaded the page, one entry I saw said "mod Banned @TransFormer78@startrek.website". Which mod? Why, what did they do? Where have they been banned from?

Another entry when I look at the modlog from my instance says "mod Banned Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com from the community News@lemmy.world reason: advocating assassination expires: 4 days ago". Mostly great, I know who was banned and from where and why. I still don't know who did it, but whatever. The only catch? The ban was issued 2 hours ago. Issued 2 hours ago but expired 4 days ago? Huh?

I'm glad it exists, but I rarely look at it. It's just not practical to use most of the time.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah, thanks!

I'm on Sync and I don't see any convenient way of looking at it either. This info does help a lot, though.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately I've yet to find an app that makes getting to the modlog easy so the only option I've found is to open my phone's web browser and check it that way.

At least Lemmy works better on mobile than a lot of other sites

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm only on ShitJustWorks because I thought Lemmy.World straight-up deleted my account.

For repeatedly explaining to someone that I was arguing for copyright reform... while they just slapped the table and parroted the status quo. As if 'but! copyright! exists!' was both news and a counterargument. That sort of trolling horseshit is what moderation's supposed to be for. Not waiting for someone to say a no-no word. Or to heave a sigh and say, go ahead, make good on your adorable threat to report me, I've done nothing but humor you with more effort than your comments deserve.

But every moderator dense enough to demand "civility" never reads anything besides the comment that gets reported. And none of them have any god-damn idea what trolling looks like, so good luck getting your own reports acknowledged. On reddit I could imagine a conscious effort to ratchet discussions toward right-wing nonsense. But here? No. Here it's just ignorance of what makes discussions worth having.

If people can lie and misrepresent and spin and lie, without any fucking consequences, but 'I think this user is being dishonest' is an intolerable personal attack, you run a community for those liars.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've literally had some of my comments (on this account and others) removed while other people agreeing with me don't have theirs removed.

Or moderators banning people for stuff that's not even against their rules but they just put it as the reason anyways.

Not to mention the amount of misinformation that flies around that goes completely unchecked.

I'm currently chilling on blahaj because the moderation is pretty good (usually) but having downvotes disabled really hampers things at times as some pretty terrible shit sometimes gets a lot of upvotes but you never see the downvotes.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even Blahaj has the admin going to bat for outright cranks, and censoring the gentlest criticism as "gatekeeping."

Capitalized pronouns are not a gender issue. That's not how pronouns or gender work. Anyone insisting the little people call them Her Majesty deserves to be ignored at best, whether they're trans or cis.

And that's the shallow end of this conversation - I had someone insist on equal respect for emoji as pronouns. Hard no. Fuck off. I don't even respect emoji as text. I don't care how hard anyone feels it; you cannot sexually identify as a pumpkin symbol. That's not what those words mean. Me saying so is fucking obviously not the same kind of disrespect as deadnaming someone, and people trying to equate them are insulting the trans community. Trans women are women. No human being is produce.

Almost wrote "no human being is fucking produce," but I have videos to the contrary.

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[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

That would be s great bot

[–] Asudox@ani.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

lemmy.world afaik has one or had one.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 27 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I also got banned from all the .ml stuff.

It's a badge of honor.

Here my comment that triggered their mod:

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah, reminds me of the ol' "How quickly can you get banned from /r/sino?" challenge

Took me one comment and it was a very reasonable one that didn't bash China even. It was something about decentralizing manufacturing being good because it's not great that all the world depends on one country to make everything.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

That's an incredibly stupid comment though, but congratulations I guess.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Why be a troll, though? Your comment sucks

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

So you went into a vegan community or what?

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As you can see from the downvotes, this was just a random vegan feeling the need to make themselves heard. The community was "memes".

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It was a very vegan oriented meme though, and the comments were filled with lots of pro vegan comments. But what this guy said was just stupid, hence the score. To get this low I think most vegans were down voting him too.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Vegans are very wierd, but anti-gmo vegans have mental health problems.

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[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Carp are pretty good too

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago

If only it-were so simple.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i just looked at ml's modlog to see what comment got you banned and it was "Tankies gonna tank."

While I was there I saw someone talking about how they thought AI art was acceptable if someone doesn't have the spare time or money to dedicate time to getting good at art so that they can make a game people won't reject because the art is ugly, and had an entire thread worth of comments with several paragraphs each pulled and burned because they disagreed with the moderators

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Extreme fragility is another thing they have in common with the far-right authoritarianism fans.

[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

While I was there I saw someone talking about how they thought AI art was acceptable if someone doesn't have the spare time or money to dedicate time to getting good at art so that they can make a game people won't reject because the art is ugly

I'm sorry to bring that discussion here, but it's been sticking in my mind. I never really understood that argument, because pretty much all the artists I know work full time for minimum wage. And I don't think people care that much about a game's art if the game itself is good (big reason low-poly and simplistic pixelart are so common in the indie space). On top of that, if you have the time to learn to code and to use a game engine, you probably also have time to practice art.

I think a lot of the interest in AI art comes down to the want for art but a disinterest in the process of making art. For me, finding that initial spark is what got me on the path to drawing more often. It's a lengthy process and it takes a while before the fruits of your labor become evident, and I think that's what turns people off. But if you just practice occasionally, maybe sit down for 30 minutes a couple times a week and doodle some guys, you'll notice a huge improvement in a year.

That said, I'm not entirely against AI art. I think it can be somewhat useful for things like D&D campaigns, where you need detailed backgrounds or character portraits on the fly, or for memes (that doctor mario one comes to mind lol). But I think a lot of people use it as a crutch and as an excuse to remain apathetic about their art skills.

[–] wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

As someone who wants to make their own game, I do not have the time to learn to code and the engine, and do my art, and do my music, and work the 3 jobs that I have.

I want the time, but I don't have it lol. (No, I'm not using AI because of this, I just wanted to suggest that time is valuable and so each additional skill is less time for other skills)

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 10 months ago

Truly one of the .ml moments of all time.

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

For basically nothing too

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Fuck lemmy.ml

All my homies hate lemmy.ml

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

It's the modlog for the .ml instance.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Uhhh... Wait a minute. You got banned over the comment about Turkey potentially coming to Palestine's aid?

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not exactly, it was reply to a reply that was pointing out the unsound logic of another user saying Russia will invade Turkey if Turkey invades Israel or something like that. It was basically a satellite comment affirming that users position of how stupid that is.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yowza, getting banned for that is ridiculous.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it was pretty surprising but I'm still proud to be banned from an authoritarian-fascist lemmy instance.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

When people on Lemmy.ml say their communities core values are different from lemmygrad.ml they look like total fucking roobs given who runs both instances (HINT: its the Lemmy core devs for both)

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

!meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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