By doing this, they’ve also ironically managed to disprove their own point of supposedly only enforcing the rules. Bit of a shame, as the idea of the community seemed nice, but I thought the mod was really out of line there.
Oh well, you better believe I’ll be back downvoting in 74 years!
Now that’s the kind of power tripping I’ve witnessed when some loser gets a manager position at a shitty restaurant
@[email protected] just posted “Rule #1 Explained: What “Be Civil” Actually Means”
https://piefed.social/post/1251841Which seems to be narrow and tailor made for him/herself.
And yet the first comment in his profile is him being snarky and uncivil to a guy asking him a genuine question…
I just got my very first ban, because @[email protected] didn’t like how I mentioned their post here.
At least its only 74 years
Hello fragile @[email protected]
Unfounded accusations of using AI are really shitty. I’m not going to bat for anyone banned for doing it.
Fair. I didn’t see that original post where they’ve made the accusation, so I admit it could have been shitty enough to warrant a ban. But there’s that and then there’s getting banned for 2 downvotes.
That is a good point. The way the message was organized screamed AI though: emoji in headers, bold headers, the “not just __ - it means __” that LLMs love em dashes and so much more. If you go back through my comments I have no problem with AI generated text. I agree is sounds like an accusation, but it wasn’t necessarily meant in a negative, “this is bad” way.
The gall to put that as the actual ban reason …
At least it’s honest, I guess?
Another perfect example of why we need private voting.
Yeah. I can see why admins might need to see the votes, at least which instance they’re from, if there are actual large-scale brigading attacks. But I don’t think mods really need to see them.
Yes, and no. People can be petty about this kinda stuff (mods can be petty about anything) - but ultimately, there are accounts that do go around mass downvoting that will ‘target’ specific instances with no interest in engaging with them.
I find it helps cultivate a high-trust culture.
pretty sure zero trust is a better plan
Overall?
I don’t believe you’d be a constructive contributor here—or anywhere
Jesus did they use AI to generate their response, too
I just blocked the community. I don’t come here for drama.
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For the communities I’ve subscribed to, I haven’t seen any mods on PieFed being unreasonable, except for this one (which I have not subscribed to and never seen any post in it).
CORRECTION: I never said I would “only enforce the rules.” You invented that.
Here’s the reality: the rules are deliberately broad. They’re written with enough vagueness to give me flexibility—because no community can thrive under rigid, legalistic interpretations. Context matters. Tone matters. And intent matters.
So let me spell it out:
If I see uncivil behavior—mockery, hostility, personal attacks, or bad-faith engagement—I’ll step in. If I see a sudden vote brigade propping up that kind of uncivil behavior—and yes, you participated in that—I’ll take action there too.
Vote brigading (Wiki) is coordinated vote manipulation. I wasn’t sent to that thread by anyone (I was subscribed to the community) and I wasn’t coordinating with anyone to downvote you either. I have no idea who else voted on your comments and whether or not they were brigading. But just because you’re getting a ton of downvotes doesn’t mean you’re getting brigaded, it could just be that you posted something many people disagree with (heck, seemingly everyone in this case). So no, I absolutely didn’t participate in any brigading.
You weren’t subscribed to the community because prior to your ban, I did a search for your username—didn’t find you on the subscription list. Furthermore, that thread was the first time you ever upvoted or downvoted any topic there.
Since you were not a member of the community, and since your only participation occurred in that thread—concurrent with other votes in quick succession—it is reasonable to assume that you were brigading.
Lemmy is still small and has a lot of small instances, a good number of us use All and not subscribe to every community. There are like 5 gaming communities that pop up on All, daily.
Nothing OP said was uncivil, they didn’t call anyone names, they didn’t troll or act like a dick. Having a different opinion of someone isn’t being uncivil.
You clearly have the same mindset as other reddit mods do and you really shouldn’t hold any mod positions if this is how you act with different opinions.
That community is incredibly small. I am the only active poster there. That post was already several hours old, and suddenly 10 downvotes come in quick succession? And none of them from members of the community? Yeah, that looks like a brigade to me.
As for the OP—I’d say accusing me of advertising is pretty damn uncivil. And not someone I want participating.
If you don’t want people to interact with your content, go make a WordPress blog or something.
You posted something unpopular enough that 10 different people down voted it, just take the L.
Subscriptions don’t always federate fast or correctly. (You can find many people with the same issue here) For many communities it still shows “Subscribe pending” for me, despite getting the content in my subscribe feed. No, I hadn’t participated yet - the community is barely 2 weeks old.
If you’re saying you weren’t part of the brigade but just so happened to subscribe—but it did not federate—and downvote at an inopportune time, while a brigade was ongoing, that might be possible. I’m skeptical, but it’s possible.
However, your immediate recourse was to create this thread instead of DM and iron out a potential misunderstanding.
That’s really unfortunate.
As I wrote on another comment, you didn’t DM me either, but permabanned me over 2 votes. Your ban message “Don’t want you in the community” also didn’t give any indication that you assumed I was part of a coordinated brigading attack. Instead, it very much read to me like you were just annoyed at having been downvoted.
Well, I probably could have given a more detailed reason. I will own that.
I will also unban you because you seem genuine and not malicious.
lol who cares? ban everyone at this point.
This is completely unhinged. Touch grass.
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I stumbled on this post browsing all and had no skin in the game but downvoted only you for being insufferable, maybe people really just don’t like the way you converse and find it patronizing and presumptuous.
So basically anyone looking through all posts is not allowed to contribute or vote before they follow.
Great.
That’s some top tier insufferable pettiness.
you came here from /all and therefore you mist be brigading
lmao what
I am personally mocking you as a shitty power tripping mod. Please ban me from your community.
Stop raping the em dash punctuation mark.
Having text full of em dashes in most comments is not helping the LLM usage allegations either. I’m not saying it’s definitive but it’s one common tell.
I’m not an LLM, and I love em dash. But I don’t use it much on Lemmy because the Jerboa client doesn’t seem to have an easy way to create one.
I just use dashes as if they’re em dashes. Nobody complains and as an upside I don’t look like an LLM.
