They will also delete any comments that complain about AI at all, even though there is no rule against it.

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After second look, that’s not entirely true, but they definitely have a trigger finger for it and leave plenty of other “off-topic” comments.

Considering the amount of posts deleted, it should have just been locked instead of nuking comments with a negative view of AI

Here’s the thread in the screenshot:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43426671/18476015

Also, here you can see other’s seem to think this was an attempt to silence dissent (though, I don’t think that this coming from drag is a great point for it):
https://lemmy.ca/post/43313594

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Just look at this completely insane comment from an instance admin:

  • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    61·
    1 day ago

    now those communities won’t be in their feed.

    Banning a user does not remove that community’s content from their feed.

    it’s not really productive to downvote a community’s content on principle. That’s what the block button is for.

    Definitely, provided that’s what actually happened.

    I would agree that it’s a rational response as a way to protect the community from that kind of behavior.

    • Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      41·
      1 day ago

      Banning a user does not remove that community’s content from their feed.

      Huh. I don’t know why I assumed a ban worked both ways. My bad!

      • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        No big. There’s a lot of idiosyncrasies to Lemmy that are unintuitive. I wouldn’t expect everyone to be familiar with all of them.