This is a great quote for soulists. Yesterday we destroyed the natural order of race. Today we are destroying the natural order of gender. Tomorrow we will destroy the natural order of species. One day people will realise that every law of nature is artificial.
FYI they have tools that tell them all the downvotes you've ever sent in that community, so if you saw one bad post a month and downvoted it without knowing it's AI, their tools will make it look like you're a "downvote troll", whatever that means.
Being right some of the time doesn't mean they're right all the time. Cops arrest drunk drivers and domestic abusers sometimes, but that doesn't mean they can be trusted when they turn their bodycams off and ask us to trust their interpretation of an event. Mods do not wield the same power as cops, but I believe the analogy holds water with regards to the issue of trust.
After seeing all the times they labelled someone a troll just for downvoting posts they don't like, I don't trust their judgement. I think they're too close to the issue. It strikes Me as paranoia. Nobody is making an alt account so they can downvote one post every couple of months, it just doesn't fit the pattern the mods say is there.
With a community like Imaginary Witches, a lot of people like seeing cool drawings of witches, as long as they're by a talented artist. A user might see an AI generated witch as a detriment to the Imaginary Witches community they want to see. Or they might not even realise it's AI, and just downvote it for being poorly drawn in their opinion. So it makes a lot of sense not to block a community when you've only ever seen four bad posts from it over the past ten months.
I do agree with the message about invisible disabilities and mental ableism, but I'm gonna push back on some of this greener grass thinking. For a lot of physical health struggles like chronic fatigue, diabetes, juvenile arthritis, etc... they don't get this kind of support. Being trans is also often a physical health struggle as much as mental. I like reminding people that gender dysphoria is a genetic disorder.
TL;DR: The dbzer0 community decided to start banning people for downvoting AI generated posts. They said they'd only ban people who come to a community and do mass downvotes, but Ace T'Ken downvoted four AI posts that showed up in the feed across a period of ten months, and was still banned from several communities by a prominent dbzer0 mod. There was also a side plot involving some person or group of people impersonating every major actor involved in the drama, which is why so many comments in the thread are removed.
There were several other drama threads related to the voting bans:
The villifcation of war will not persuade those who are already out for blood, they're determined to have those wars. However, I fear it may drive our potential allies to passivity in the face of fascist expansion, making the fascists' jobs easier. I very much enjoy media that glorifies war for a just cause, such as Star Wars or Inglourious Basterds.
This is a great quote for soulists. Yesterday we destroyed the natural order of race. Today we are destroying the natural order of gender. Tomorrow we will destroy the natural order of species. One day people will realise that every law of nature is artificial.