So yeah… maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).
Lol.
An actual bad person when given mod status in too many subs: “This site is great”
Site admins ban him and deny appeals
The bad person: “This site is exploitative!!”
Reddit sucks, but this is probably the one good thing to come from Reddits recent actions.
Fully agree. Power mods like him are a huge problem on reddit and I hope this will not repeat in the fediverse.
I mean, the benefit to Lemmy is that it is easy to create a new instance to replace ones controlled by power hungry mods.
Sure, I just hope it plays out like that. I can easily imagine a situation where instances or communities get too big to fail. What’s the point in creating a splinter community where 10 or 100 users migrate to when all the content and discussion takes place in the original community.
On reddit I had started boringdystopia despite there already being the bigger aboringdystopia because I disliked the moderation. I surprisingly saw decent growth in the sub as well.
So just because there’s a bigger “original” out there, doesn’t mean you can’t do well and make a working community.
Ya thats what i wonder bc that kinda happened on reddit.
Ya but how easy would it be to get people to actually move there. Even tho on Reddit theres a rule against duplicate subs there were ways around that (like “real___” or “___uncensored”) but the problem was that some ppl just didnt care about poor conduct and the replacement subs sometime ended up not taking off or being overrun by an extreme group (tho sometime it did work.) So I wonder about that here bc a lot of ppl use that to say this isnt a problem here
You dont even need to go to a new instance you can just join another comunity on a different server
trying to encourage a code of morality, as seen in my post for mildly infuriating a few days ago mentioning some of the actions these moderators had done against the community and why they are bad for the health of it.
I hope being one of the large communities it offers a template for those to follow, I might not always get it right but I hope to do my best to eliminate it here. Bad mods ruined reddit.
Bad mods weren’t the only thing contributing to the downfall of Reddit. Infact, Id argue most moderators of Reddit were genuinely good and helped foster each subreddit community in a reasonable manner. As with all things that involve humans, there will always be bad actors, but I think overall I had maybe 2 instances I can remember in all my 14 years of Reddit where a bad moderator removed content because they didnt agree with it.
It will but they’ll be server admins instead.
Hopefully no instance ever becomes too popular by itself where this will heavily affect everyone though.
I think the fuck was effectively the last of the five no life mods.
Three where perma banned and 1 just stopped showing up (there are rumors that he died power tripping)
Aaaaaand he’s gone
What a wonderful day!
🦀🦀🦀
Well that’s not what I meant when I said to suspend akwardtheturtle but I guess it succeeded.
It’s almost hilarious that this guy was given a taste of his own medicine.
Oh, is that’s who it is? If so, fuck them.
Weren’t they a massive dick about as well, it wasn’t just an accusation without evidence.
Seems like everyone here deserves eachother.
This case is actually even funnier because that mod turned out to be right! The art was AI generated! Aspects of other people’s watermarks and other AI giveaways were left in the final art so either the whole picture was ai generated and the sketches were done after or it’s all AI generated.
Are you sure about that? I know that was the case with some recent AI-accused artists, but I haven’t seen this specific case mentioned.
The reason I ask is that:
A. There’s nothing I can find online. If you have a link, I’d love to be proven wrong.
B. After looking again art the image in question from January of this year, I don’t see any watermarks or AI tells (hands look perfect and natural, and I couldn’t spot any watermark residuals).
I think I might’ve been wrong here. I had heard and looking into it at the time but it’s possible I mixed multiple stories in my head that happened at the same/similar time. My original source was from a news YouTube channel that I watch/listen to but it wasn’t the headlining news of the video and it was months ago so I have no idea how to search it and see what sources they used.
Sorry if I accidentally spread any misinformation here.
Sorry if I accidentally spread any misinformation here.
No worries! You realized you might be wrong and corrected yourself. I forgive you, lol!
Apparently the artist provided a lot of evidence that it was his own work and had even provided the PSD files to journalists who reached out to him.
This seems unusually high-effort for ‘AI generated art.’
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This website is exploitative garbage with no respect given to all the app makers and third party developers that have kept its decrepit heart beating all this time, submitted by /u/awkwardtheturtle to /u/awkwardtheturtle
/u/spez is a liar and a hypocrite, the admins are two-faced goons, and they are all toxic embarrassments instead of people. They seemed ok when I met them in person (though tiny Spez did seem like he had a lot to compensate for), but promises and assurances from people like chtorrr and redtaboo have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are stooges, not innovators.
Let it all burn to the ground where this useless website belongs
I’m a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too!
I can’t wait for the future where ai can very reliably transcribe anything for the blind folks out there so they can freely browse stuff like we all do.
Good human
Turtle is the most drama-seeking person I’ve seen on Reddit and I’ve been there a long time. They always seek out drama and then screenshot it and post it to r/CenturyClubDrama. They contribute like 80% of the total posts to that sub. They also post really long rants and then ban the person they’re ranting at so the person can’t comment back. Don’t be like turtle.
That fucking CenturyClub bullshit; I lasted about 2 days after getting invited to the subreddit a few years ago. What a morass of powermod drama queens and groupthink twats. For some god-unknown reason, I got an re-invite during the protest blackouts from one of their mods, no clue why. Because they were going to talk me out of shutting down a +1M sub?
Please let them stay away from the Fediverse… Stay the fuck away from Lemmy and Kbin. Get out, touch grass and eat some ice cream but stay away from us.
I also think we should be weary of people asking to be mods and if anyone you do make a mod acts like turdle you remove them as a mod and ban them
Agree.
Also Mmmm, its not too early for ice cream is it?
It’s never to early for ice-cream (or to late for that matter).
Is it ever?
I decided to agree, and ate the ice cream despite the time of day.
I don’t particularly feel bad for you.
The two bad guys fighting each other,
just like in RussiaThey’re still fighting, just not in public view .
Major “you can’t fire me, I quit!” vibes
I would take anything this chode says with a huge grain of salt, but it was pretty clear that he was buddies with admins and other “power”-mods because he was not only getting away with stuff that others were getting banned for left and right, but I personally have been perma-banned for “harassment” a couple times for even bringing up their toxic behavior and why I think it was a problem to different mod teams.
Anyway they’re mentally unwell, their dick is small and they can go fuck themselves.
Decent guys with small dicks are twenty miles above this turd.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person
I hope they don’t end up over here. “Power mods” are just the worst.
I got banned from a sub for a relatively tame normal opinion about something or other, like a video game or something. Sent a mod mail asking what happened and what could I do to make it right, got muted and then banned from 10 more subs immediately.
I just nuked my 15 year 750k karma account after giving him a piece of mind to each modmail box. I’ll absolutely burn the earth before letting some internet loser feel like he runs my life lol.
I got banned from r/entertainment for criticizing Lizzo’s outfit when the whole crystal flute nontroversy happened, nothing racial, nothing about her weight or about the flute-playing itself, just that I thought her outfit she was wearing looked trashy. BANNED. Reddit has been on the decline for awhile now. I just wish I could filter out ANY news of Reddit on other sites, it’s kind of annoying how much sites like Lemmy.world still lean on Reddit for content instead of trying to do their own thing.
Oh yeah I hate how many posts are just Reddit links.
Do people not know you still help by visiting?
(they don’t, people are dumb 😂)
Yea, I’ve been going cold turkey since 6/11. I thought the whole point was to NOT GO so that Reddit could see how unpopular its decision was. It kind of feels like people are just not bothering with even trying to protest. I’m sure those that stick around will have a series of annual “that’s it, I’m done” moments coming in the future as Reddit makes more and more unpopular decisions and people just put up with it because they couldn’t even go a few weeks without visiting the site. I’ve already made my peace with the fact that Reddit is gone and I’m ready to move on. At this point I’d be more conflicted if they actually backed down on their stupid API policy and let 3rd party apps back on.
Yup, that sounds like AwkwardTheTurtle.
That’s how I lost my original 10+ year Reddit account.
Someone would just start their own lemmy instance if the mods are unreasonable.
How does that solve the issue? If you are banned from a community you won’t be able to post or comment to it
You create your own community. If the mods are jerks, you can convince people to switch.
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Betrayal gives way to strong feelings of animosity. I have a supposition that most of you would do the same thing. If you were a moderator of a very large subreddit, would you really want to lose your position? If so, why?
Yes, I would want to lose that position. I already have a job. Reddit is a diversion, not a life.
It’s not about having wants, it’s about having principles.
It’s not about having wants, it’s about having principles.
I don’t understand what you are trying to say. I do agree that principles are fundamental, and should be prioritized above all else. However, for what reason would you prioritize them, rather than be selfish?
You don’t need a reason, you just need integrity. You either have it or you don’t have it.
I really hope whatever website replaces Reddit has some sort of way to mitigate/control these “super” mods
I am very much uncaring for turtles predicament. He or she was an ass to ever community at every possible chance. now it’s expected the community help them out? Hell no, hope the removal is permanent
Yeah this seems like some selfawarewolves shit. And even in this whiny tirade they just couldn’t leave some sort sexist/ableist/hateful insult off. As much as spez is a fucking tool, people like turtle are the bigger reason honestly the whole site had turned to diarrhea IMO - rampant assholes taking over the site.
Yeah I don’t get why they felt the need to bring up spez being short (is that what they were getting at?) Seems childish. Who cares if he’s not tall? What’s that have to do with this…
