Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).

Important notes:

  1. I don’t use scripts.
  2. I don’t mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don’t like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
  3. Some of the communities I was banned from don’t have any posts in them so I wouldn’t have been able to downvote anything.
  4. Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It’s quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
  5. One of my bans reads “Appeal Granted, not a brigading member” but I’m still banned.
  6. I don’t troll.

WTF is going on here?

EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two “ban waves.”

The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.

The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.

I have also stated in this thread that I don’t have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.

EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as “3 months ago” in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being “self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader” which are two things I didn’t claim to be. God dammit Lemmy…

  • Luffy ( Luffy879@lemmy.ml ) 
    37·
    1 year ago

    Db0ero is explicitely pro AI

    I would guess the Mod has gone full shizo and banned you from the whole instance and everywhere he could because you downvoted an AI generated image.

    • Ace T'Ken ( AceTKen@lemmy.ca ) OPEnglish
      36·
      1 year ago

      I don’t make it a habit of downvoting images simply because they’re AI-gen, but there are well-done ones and horrible ones just like any images. Do they really ban for simply downvoting ANY AI image? That’s… kind of a lot.

        • Ace T'Ken ( AceTKen@lemmy.ca ) OPEnglish
          19·
          1 year ago

          We found the answer (kinda)! It was @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477

          I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.

          “Create more slop” is, in fact, a message I disagree with rather strongly and did downvote that (and only that) post. I PM’d the the mod in response to that post:

          Brigading is organized. I, a single person, downvoted one post I saw in /All because it is actively content with a message I do not care for or agree with. Bad form would be going through everything in the community and downvoting. I didn’t do that either. What I had done is called “using the platform as intended.” And you overreacted with a ban.

          So we’ve effectively solved the first part, but not the three Stable Diffusion parts… Those also seem to line up with another single downvote a month later. Again, hardly brigading or vote manipulation.

          EDIT: Huh. Looks like we had someone in this thread downvoting nearly every post in here.

      • wizardbeard ( wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
        13·
        1 year ago

        No, they don’t, at least not the site wide admins.

        This community is part of dbzer0, so if you were banned from the instance you wouldn’t be able to post here either.

        It looks like you pissed off on moderator of a bunch of comms and they banned you from all of theirs. Based off another commentor’s link, this seems to have happened when those comms were being hit by waves of drive by downvoting so you may have been caught in the cross fire.

        • wizardbeard ( wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
          11·
          1 year ago

          You said “banned you from the whole instance”, which isn’t something a moderator can do. Only admins can do instance wide bans, moderators are limited to bans from their own comms.

          It wasn’t unreasonable to think you were mixing up moderator and admin. Plenty of people did during the first reddit exodus, and still do.

      • moosetwin ( moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
        8·
        1 year ago

        It’s annoying that the amount the general public cares about schizophrenic people is often less than they care about changing the words they speak.

        sidenotes - CW: R-slur, used non-casually

        This is common with a lot of disability-related terms, I expect this usage to decrease over time similar to how usage of ‘retard’ has.

        I am unsure whether [‘schizophrenic people’ or ‘people with schizophrenia’] is correct here, I am going based off of what I have heard about [‘autistic people’ vs ‘people with autism’] as I could not find relevant information online.

        • SheeEttin ( SheeEttin@lemmy.zip ) English
          3·
          1 year ago

          The “person-first” formation is debated. Some people like it, some don’t. I think most people don’t care. I would assume, like most similar things, it was started by someone with only a tangential connection to the subject.

          • Muad'dib ( Muaddib@sopuli.xyz ) Banned from communityEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, the other way is identity-first and autistic people tend to prefer identity first. It does and should differ from minority to minority.

        • TimewornTraveler ( TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
          3·
          1 year ago

          well most people with schizophrenia dont really consider themselves schizophrenic. it takes a lot of work to even get to that point of recognition. so you’re really looking for ways to destigmatize the experience of psychosis in general to encourage people to be open to acknowledging it and not worrying about all the social repercussions of being “crazy” and just be willing to find another explanation for the bizarre experiences theyve been having . unfortunately the very definition of delusion is that it persists in the face of evidence to the contrary! and to think that one’s beliefs have no ground in reality. it’s a lot to swallow!

          honestly the best way to phrase it would probably be something like “had a break from reality” or similar