r/Art has quietly gone into lockdown and is no longer accepting submissions after mods began facing severe blowback for banning @haydclay for mentioning the word "print" on the subreddit.
I don’t think Lemmy is any better. The other day, a Lemmy moderator didn’t like a video I shared about the potential collapse of the US and banned me from eight communities. As far as I know, the video wasn’t even AI-generated, so I don’t know where he got that idea from.
Also echoing that fediverse mods are no different
I am new to Lemny myself, I do see more productive conversations within here vs Reddit. Less pointless question as well. Mods in general postives & negatives right? Power, corrupts absolutely unless you hmhave checks/balance within a community. Most people don't ask the community.
It entirely depends on the community. I'm sure there are judicious, patient moderators here. I mean, in a small community there's not much work to do, so extra care can be made. But moderation is also a thankless job, and it honestly erodes your soul.
The easiest thing for a mod to do is say "This person broke a rule, I'm banning them from the entire instance". The fair thing to do is issue a warning and remove a comment/post, maybe a temp ban. But most people see one infraction, even a mistaken one, as proof that you aren't fit for the community.
Exactly, that's were it goes all wrong.
This is the video in question, yes? Any time-stamp I go to is an AI-generated image.
I loved pissing off the actual public freak out mods. I never broke the rules just went against their personal politics
I can attest to that. Mods can be furious if something goes against their views, even on lemmy.
I had a case where the mod locked down a whole post and comment section because of this. At the end the mod published a comment which essentially was just them bitching.
I made a comment on one sub that broke a vague rule that they deemed inappropriate.. (something to the effect of making your comments tactful)
When asking about their decision and defending my comment they banned me from all the subreddits they modded.
I was a user for 14 years.. Haven't been back to Reddit since. ✌🏼
OP is hawking AI art "prints" on an art subreddit.
It's weird but I'm with the reddit mod on this one, lmao.
ahhh the truth comes out.... 'why can't I spam my ai-shitstream to your sub? ugh, power trippin bastards!'
But that's not what OP did at all? The truth didn't come out, Chloroken hair made something up.
Where did you get that from? I got that story from twitter and it doesn't say anything about AI anywhere.
ESH
Incredibly rare reddit mod W
Where does it say any of that?
It doesn't but a quick glance at their reddit post history shows a bunch of terrible AI slop.
if you think lemmy is different, you are sorely mistaken. kids on power trip are the same everywhere, regardless of platform.
They literally said this in the post
I think they added that after this comment was made, judging by the post times.
the difference is that there are other duplicate communities on other lemmy instances that you can join to get your content while reddit only has that one subreddit.
Yea but on lemmy you can see who silenced and wrongfully banned who, easily, right from the removed comment.
Good luck doing that on reddit.
The same, my ass. I haven't yet been banned here for calling bullshit bullshit.
Kids or poorly socialised adults?
Both
I'm not sure if I'm ahead of the game having left reddit entirely before I could get banned from anything, or if I'm missing out on a core cultural experience.
Would you like for us to "yell at you, tell you that your stupid & that you in the wrong subreddit?" That, is what your missing out on! Not much.
Yeah I just lurk at Reddit and do my engaging here. Too many power addicted mods, and a worsening foreign influence problem.
Not that we're immune here, but it's been a LOT more enjoyable to engage here than Reddit.
Reddit really hates it when you discuss how much drugs Elon takes
Typical reddit moderator being a power hungry bastard.
Art has been one of the most ban happy subs since forever. The only major one I was ever banned from
It's not a Reddit problem, it's a human one. Like you also commented it happens here too.
r/art is the worst lol
They banned one dude and then a bunch of us for saying
Classic Reddit moment
Reddit mods are power hungry assholes. This one specifically too. But you also broke the rules of the sub. When I was a mod of a small sub having to handle all sorts of people giving me attitude, I wasn't paid enough for it.
You weren't like "oh sorry, I didn't understand replying to questions with info about my work broke rule 9". You were more like "how dare you".
Some people would derive real psychiatric benefit from just one haymaker straight to the goddamn mouth
