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.
This is the video in question, yes? Any time-stamp I go to is an AI-generated image.
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.
I loved pissing off the actual public freak out mods. I never broke the rules just went against their personal politics
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.
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. ✌🏼
if you think lemmy is different, you are sorely mistaken. kids on power trip are the same everywhere, regardless of platform.
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.
They literally said this in the post
I think they added that after this comment was made, judging by the post times.
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.
Where and how? Because to me it just says “a mod”?
I could check by clikcing the moderation history on the removed comment, in the 3 dot menu. I’m on lemmy.zip tho not the desktop or mobile versions. I saw all the history of that one banned person with all their removed comments and messages from the mod.
If I do it for myself, I only see “mod”. Am on mobile though. I heard that admins can sometimes see mod names, so perchance do you host your own instance?
same here. i am also on lemmy.zip.
what is “not the desktop or mobile versions”? what other versions are there?
but that debate aside, even if it were true, seeing some mix of characters other than “mod” is not really useful in any way.
Huh I see the same thing. I could’ve sworn I saw the mod’s name a while ago too… Either way at least here there’s a log with some sort of reason.
You might be right, but remember some of your bans were deserved as you massively trolled us
i have no idea wtf you are and i am pretty sure i never “massively trolled” anyone. are you confused? did i just get personal stalker? :D
Kids or poorly socialised adults?
Both
OP is hawking AI art “prints” on an art subreddit.
It’s weird but I’m with the reddit mod on this one, lmao.
Where did you get that from? I got that story from twitter and it doesn’t say anything about AI anywhere.
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.
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.
ESH
Everyone is an asshole?
Everyone sucks here
Incredibly rare reddit mod W
Art has been one of the most ban happy subs since forever. The only major one I was ever banned from
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
It is very safe to say we are not immune here. Give us hundred times the active user base and you will inevitably end up with people like this.
I do the opposite. Since I mostly engage with niche communities, I mostly engage on Reddit.
Sounds like the kind of power mod who spends his evenings sat in a hotel cuck chair because that’s the most intimacy they’ll ever have with a woman.
Typical reddit moderator being a power hungry bastard.
r/art is the worst lol
They banned one dude and then a bunch of us for saying
Classic Reddit moment
It’s just a terrible subreddit to begin with. The artwork is all shit and uninspiring stuff you would see from a teenager. I’ll be the first to admit i have no artistic ability, but all the posts were just the portfolio of high schoolers
I wonder why that could be… Surely the rules & mods being obnoxious has nothing to do with it.
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”.
It’s someone from twitter called Hayden Clay @haydclay
Moderation is slapping people in the face, for a good reason. You’re still slapping them in the face.
Some people need a slap in the face. When I was mod sometimes I couldn’t handle all the crap. But if someone messaged me nicely and seemed understanding, I always replied in kind.
It’s not a Reddit problem, it’s a human one. Like you also commented it happens here too.
Some people would derive real psychiatric benefit from just one haymaker straight to the goddamn mouth
