• Chozo@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    Admins should only be looking at who downvotes posts when there is some sort of history of vote-abuse happening. Somebody voicing their opinion with their votes is a perfectly valid use of the upvote/downvote system.

    PTB

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      Exactly. You can’t spam upvites, because the problem with spam is that it buries and dilutes actual, useful, quality content. A user “spamming” upvoting or downvoting isn’t really actionable spam - his up/downvote isn’t drowning out the others.

      The problem is brigading - when multiple people start mass up/downvoting and water down other votes.

      Same goes for spaming votes with multiole accounts.

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    Communities and the volunteer mod system are the same, so that should hardly be surprising. If it gets really crazy, like this, I recommend moving to a new community of your own accord.

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    9 days ago

    It’s a troll…

    Piefield.social sprung up overnight, and when I tried to comment on a post I realized I had been instance banned almost as soon as the instance was created.

    It’s also super hard to see stuff in their modlog, or even who their admins are, let alone how many actual use it.

    So that message is most like one of their admins. Another thing they seem to do to troll is just reply “disengage” to random people and if a reply happens after that it’s called stalking.

    I legitimately can’t tell if it’s intentional trolling as a joke, or if they’re serious and that crazy. It doesn’t really matter though…

    Just block the whole instance, you’re literally missing nothing.

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      It’s also super hard to see stuff in their modlog, or even who their admins are, let alone how many actual use it.

      That’s funny, someone was telling me about how Lemmy’s moderation system is super authoritarian and opaque recently, in a conversation about the merits of Piefed.

      That’s using their own interface?

  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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    You’re lucky

    I got banned with no warning or even indication what post was offensive (I was not being anything-phobic or inciting violence)

    But that was lemmy.ml so I should have known

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    9 days ago

    How is “bro” toxic…? I can see how someone who isn’t a dude objecting to being called one, but that’s not an issue with the word itself

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      Even ‘dude’ is shifting towards gender neutral.

      As with all of these kinds of discussions, context is key. Getting offended at the mere sight of the word ‘bro’? Go suck a dick. Using ‘bro’ spitefully to misgender someone? Also go suck a dick.

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        Is this an age and location thing? Because I’m a millennial and Californian as heck and use “bro” “dude” “man” to everybody lol

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      As a woman who works with men, “bro” and “man” (thanks, man) seem to signify comradarie that I don’t receive. It’s not a big enough deal to bring up in the workplace, but I associate it with feeling left out and it makes me sad sometimes. Since you asked.

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        If it makes you feel any better, I don’t think those words used in those context are gender specific, that is to say I would totally say “thanks, man” to a woman without batting an eye, and I assume people who use bro would do the same. I know feelings are extremely personal, and if it makes you feel bad it’s unlikely to change because some random person online said something, but in my head “thanks, man” is just a construct used to imply comradrie, it has nothing to do with the gender of the word, just like how “see you later, alligator” doesn’t exclude human beings.

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          Those are usually used in a more friendly, casual setting. I would be abit more concerned about using such language at the workplace especially towards other female coworker or the higher up managers, compared to say a colleague you work with and see everyday lest you get written up by HR again for, “inappropriate behaviours”.

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      It does seem a little condescending in this context. I have known one or two people who don’t “bro” in normal conversation, but once it’s an argument they say it in every retort. It can feel slightly toxic when used this way.

      Not as toxic as stalking downvoters though

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    Just block and move on, I think 🤷 If they ban you, so what? I doubt any single instance forms a huge percentage of your experience here, and that goes double for some knob’s shite little personal instance. Put another way, that kind of moderation is never going to grow a large community; maybe they want it that way, but it does mean they’ll stay irrelevant to the majority of users. And the reasonable ones that person bans will make their own instance; the instance with the most reasonable moderation will end up with the most users.

    At least, this is how I’ve been using it. Just firehose the lot at first and filter down the noise over time. My block list is long, communities and users. Hell, I’ll block a whole community if I see the admin or a mod being a dick. I feel this has only improved my experience.

    • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.social
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      I’m worried because they’re the same instance as me. If I somehow gets the evil eye from them and get banned, does that mean I’m just banned from that comm or instance? I think atomicpoet isn’t a piefed.social instance admin (too lazy to check)

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        No not from the instance. I think that would take @rimu@piefed.social or an admin. Worst that bro can do is ban you from that community.

        And to be honest this the first real controversy of piefed. So congrats! Its a real platform now!

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    No, that user is just a jackass. There are a fair number of jackass mods and admins across instances, but far fewer than I was expecting.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    9 days ago

    DMing me about downvoting your posts is a good way to get me to downvote you upon simply seeing your username. And bans don’t stop people seeing and downvoting your posts. Just posting and commenting in your comms.