I’m gonna jump in here, since there’s some info that might be handy.
See, me and jet have had some disagreements regarding the carnivore diet. I even gave them a bit of hell when the carnivore community was new, objecting strongly to certain posts and their content combined with no sourcing or user friendly way to access sources from lemmy.
I’m pretty sure at one point, I got annoying. I know I was rather, ummmm, direct in my phrasing.
But the real story is that I down voted posts, and comments under posts, when they were misleading or contradicted established best practices to a degree I felt warranted a down vote to reduce visibility/support. I did that part with only minimum contributions otherwise, because I didn’t really want to piss on anyone’s picnic with the frequency I was seeing that kind of thing. Like, I objected to some of the data and conclusions, but the people didn’t really need someone critiquing their dietary choices, you dig? All the folks commenting were just minding their own business and not trying to evangelise, so trying to interfere in their choices would be a dick move.
And I never got banned. Ngl, if I had been running the community and seen the pattern of voting with as little contribution as I was engaging in, I might have banned me.
But, neither actively as a mod, nor via bot, did that happen.
I know that’s just one anecdote, and anecdotes have little value. But it’s why I would have totally called this a YDI if OP hadn’t been batshit and ended up banned here as well.
As far as I’m concerned, jet is a fair and even handed moderator. Might want to tweak the bot a little eventually, but for a niche C/, it seems to do the job it’s intended to do.
At least I managed to present myself in the way intended successfully, skeptical but polite/interested.
I did eventually feel weird voting at all without saying something, so I very rarely do any more. It’s still a very interesting subject, I just don’t have anything useful to say that I haven’t already said in one way or another. Pretty much the same as on vegan, vegetarian, or keto communities tbh. I see them all as valid choices for individuals. So as long as there’s nothing that’s outright false, the most I can do is chime in with existing best practices, and it isn’t like people looking for a specialized diet haven’t seen that information.
I’m happy for you to ask questions, even questions people would already have seen elsewhere. The conversation is good for everyone.
Plus a question about carnivore, being a subset of keto, gets to birds with one stone!
I really like to dig into the science, what is well researched, what can be demonstrated. Heck, I even spent a bunch of time figuring out why the Rice/Potato/McDougall diet works (its inhibition of the Randell cycle (not a cycle)).
I’m gonna jump in here, since there’s some info that might be handy.
See, me and jet have had some disagreements regarding the carnivore diet. I even gave them a bit of hell when the carnivore community was new, objecting strongly to certain posts and their content combined with no sourcing or user friendly way to access sources from lemmy.
I’m pretty sure at one point, I got annoying. I know I was rather, ummmm, direct in my phrasing.
But the real story is that I down voted posts, and comments under posts, when they were misleading or contradicted established best practices to a degree I felt warranted a down vote to reduce visibility/support. I did that part with only minimum contributions otherwise, because I didn’t really want to piss on anyone’s picnic with the frequency I was seeing that kind of thing. Like, I objected to some of the data and conclusions, but the people didn’t really need someone critiquing their dietary choices, you dig? All the folks commenting were just minding their own business and not trying to evangelise, so trying to interfere in their choices would be a dick move.
And I never got banned. Ngl, if I had been running the community and seen the pattern of voting with as little contribution as I was engaging in, I might have banned me.
But, neither actively as a mod, nor via bot, did that happen.
I know that’s just one anecdote, and anecdotes have little value. But it’s why I would have totally called this a YDI if OP hadn’t been batshit and ended up banned here as well.
As far as I’m concerned, jet is a fair and even handed moderator. Might want to tweak the bot a little eventually, but for a niche C/, it seems to do the job it’s intended to do.
I’ve seen your interactions in that community as skeptical but polite. You never attacked a user, or insulted anyone. You contributed occasionally.
Would I have preferred your downvotes also have a question/comment with your concerns? Sure
My guiding metric is to make a safe space where others feel comfortable participating in - and your interactions were inline with that.
At least I managed to present myself in the way intended successfully, skeptical but polite/interested.
I did eventually feel weird voting at all without saying something, so I very rarely do any more. It’s still a very interesting subject, I just don’t have anything useful to say that I haven’t already said in one way or another. Pretty much the same as on vegan, vegetarian, or keto communities tbh. I see them all as valid choices for individuals. So as long as there’s nothing that’s outright false, the most I can do is chime in with existing best practices, and it isn’t like people looking for a specialized diet haven’t seen that information.
I’m happy for you to ask questions, even questions people would already have seen elsewhere. The conversation is good for everyone.
Plus a question about carnivore, being a subset of keto, gets to birds with one stone!
I really like to dig into the science, what is well researched, what can be demonstrated. Heck, I even spent a bunch of time figuring out why the Rice/Potato/McDougall diet works (its inhibition of the Randell cycle (not a cycle)).