MysticMushroom1776

Sounds like they got banned for gatekeeping, from what I can tell @[email protected] is very hostile towards any forms of transphobia (including gatekeeping and apologia), and rightfully so. Those things hurt the trans community and the people in it.

Common bad faith argument from anti-AI Trolls claiming everyone who doesn't agree with them is using an LLM to write their comments or just is an LLM.

I don't think it's anywhere near as common as you're trying to say it is, this is a common anti-AI rhetoric and it either comes from baseless fearmongering or people who do it themselves and believe everyone else does. I've been baselessly accused of viewing and making AI CSAM and even accused of having an "AI shotacon avatar" by anti-AI dipshits trying to bully me off the platform. Which already makes me question the frequency of how much this actually happens for real.

The arguments against preemptive bans feel petty and are coming from a place of someone who hasn't moderated. You're basically saying that as a mod if I see someone being a troll, or brigading, or saying (threatening) they're going to that I should just sit by and wait for them to do so. Especially when a large proportion of these trolls are willing to go above and beyond to be hurtful and spiteful.

This is what we're dealing with here:

Yeah, those dipshits outright impersonated and bullied me saying weird and gross crap like this.

So no I'm not going to sit by and watch people from the sidelines until they target me and my community and no one else should either. People want to be shitheads they should expect to find themselves banned from places they never heard of for being shitheads. Don't like it? Stop being a shithead. And yes that does include obvious forms of brigading like going to someone's profile and downvoting every comment they posted, or downvoting every post in a community, or downvoting all the comments under a post.

Dude what the actual fuck???

Systematically going through a whole community in attempt to suppress them absolutely is manipulative and you absolutely can be banned for it. If this wasn't the case and it was believed people are entitled to vote not matter what why do bans stop the ability to vote in communities in the first place.

If you think there is dangerous medical misinformation you should report it or message the admins. Downvoting everything just looks like Vote manipulation to regular people because it is, and those mods are going to ban people for it either way. It also doesn't help make admins aware of it, so for policy violations doing that instead of reporting or messaging admins is as useless as doing nothing at all.

Here's what I got, I just used the AI horde bot (I don't have ChatGPT).

Prompt: Mystic Mushroom

Style: flux

Seems they're getting bold now. You've had no posts or comments for two fucking years @[email protected] and now you start voting. Seems the Fuck_AI crowd is getting desperate if they're turning to their very inactive vote manipulation alts...

What about the rule change we voted on a while ago maybe even if it's not AI specific that should be included there.

Sorry, my bad. I thought it seemed fishy that they had no content posted whatsoever.

It has, but the rules section doesn't clarify brigading Anti-AI or otherwise as one of the big no-no topics. We did vote on a change to the rules but it seems it wasn't implemented yet. Maybe @[email protected] or @[email protected] just hasn't gotten around to it yet but it would help in terms of it being known that we mean business.

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