• jetA
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    7 hours ago

    To be fair you literally asked to be banned

    https://lemmy.ca/comment/13926355

    Ban me too since Vegan Pizza called you out on your nonsense.

    My response:

    ok! I have banned you per your request. If you ever want to come back, just send me a DM

    WRT Vegan Pizza, they only down vote, they did not start a conversation. I’m not sure down voting counts as being called out

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    I will never understand people who want to give up fruits and vegetables. Not only are they beautiful but they are really fun and relaxing to grow. There is something about growing and harvesting your own vegetables that can’t be wrong lol

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    Linuxsucks isn’t a community. It’s one guy on a mountain of shit.

    Honestly, he doesn’t deserve the attention he’s getting right now.

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    I blocked carnivore immediately as it was an obvious teenage attempt at trolling. Granted its creation seemed to be a response to the false flag vegan communities.

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      You mean the vegan communities aren’t acting in good faith when they call everybody “carnists” and “bloodmouths”???

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    4 days ago

    This one made me giggle. The linuxsucks dude is a trip. I would love to see a psychological workup on a person that creates a 1-person community on an ultra-niche platform and protects against other people joining to the death.

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        I definitely wouldn’t have thought to label him terrible. Just emotionally delicate enough to not be able to handle dissenting opinions and harboring a sense of powerlessness that has made him want to create an environment where he gets to control the people that try to participate.

        I can relate. I might start a “somethingsucks” community and may the Gods help anyone that tries to usurp me.

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              Lol shooketh. I wanted in on the satire so bad I was blinded and didn’t see the clear anger this man had for being free.

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                This is most likely his villain origin story: He tried linux making him a hacker in his mind, broke it and couldn’t fix it, the Arch forum told him to RTFM and pointed him to the wik so he reinstalled Windows and has made the entire linux community his arch nemesis.

                Admitting some people aren’t savvy enough to run linux is his kryptonite.

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    Communities made around hating a specific thing are always awful.

    Except FuckCars because that’s really just pro-urbanism.

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      Yeah, its rough to find some pure carnivore content for things like kidneys, or even things like fish soup. I get as close as I can and indicate what I would change to push it into the pure territory.

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    Hey now, linuxsucks doesn’t do that anymore!

    …because every post is locked, nobody can comment.

    (unless they are banning due to votes, I can’t find it in the modlogs if they are)

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      unless they are banning due to votes, I can’t find it in the modlogs if they are

      That community is on .world, which on Lemmy v0.19.3. Moderators there cannot yet see who voted.

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        Saw someone with their own instance say on another post (not on their instance) that they could tell that said post had 5 downvotes by users they had tagged.

        Not sure that it’s true, but I do find it a bit unnerving. I was on (the now defunct) Kbin and the downvotes were public, which didn’t bother me as much because it was at least transparent/equal (though I also had someone pester me over a few votes spanning weeks on their just-them-posting-a-popular-comic place, said it was an error with their averages and then they still silently banned/blocked me after).

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          Votes are public, they can be seen across different instances, the only thing that’s unresolved is seeing them using the standard Lemmy software as a non admin user.

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            This discussion has been had before and people didn’t like the idea of it being public. What I am pointing out was there too: that pseudo-privacy is not great either especially when anybody can be a moderator or host an instance (but not to the point where I will expect others will know my dissenting reply is not the source of the 1 downvote).

            It would be more understandable if this were semi-anonymized data that could be cross-referenced, but there’s already other issues (nebulous or subjective hidden thresholds, moderators moderating their own posts). Unless it is incredibly cautious (detecting mainly scripting or obsession-level voting) I expect it’ll be a repeating annoyance especially if the approach is widely used.

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              I think its a core design issue; if votes are free and unlimited then they will be gamified, one method to provide a feedback mechanism here is to make votes accountable.

              There are other moderation styles, like the slashdot random moderation points, which show some promise.

              I’ve seen other gamified models where downvotes are scarce, or cost time, or cost money, so they are reserved for bad behavior.

              The design of showing votes on posts makes it a signal, and that signal will be gamified. I think for smaller communities having outside third parties chill participation is bad for the overall growth of lemmy. In the long term I imagine a community level system selected by the moderators would fit best.

              examples

              • Only people who have posted or commented can downvote / upvote
              • Only people who are subscribed can upvote/downvote
              • only people who have repetitional guarantees can upvote/downvote
              • posts only visible to subscribers

              Just trying to get local representation into communities.

              etc. etc

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    Slowly becoming an echo chamber of toxic one-ups-manship has never resulted in anything bad happening to a board moderator or its members.

    Just ask Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka