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Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art

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Re: Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art

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Post by counttheforks »

watwut wrote: post #330
counttheforks wrote: post #302

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Hardly. Volunteer positions come with responsibilities. No one is forcing them to waste their time on moderating an internet forum, but they chose to do it for whatever reason and then chose to be lazy and actively harmful.

The complaint here is about moderation tactic that is not actively harmful or abusive to people and ease their own load when threads become too much. Complaining about that is absurd.

No. The purpose of a subreddit is to let users engage. Excessive locking decreases user engagement and is harmful, not to mention that it punishes users (who are no longer able to continue a already started conversation in the comments) for violations of others.

Re: Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art

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Post by counttheforks »

xeromal wrote: post #258
flumpcakes wrote: post #141

Speaking on the topic of Reddit and mods and it's power structure: In the UK Reddit has pushed a new subreddit called "HeyUK". It has turned up in the subscription feeds for some (all?) UK users automatically without the user asking for it or adding it. If you remove it from your list of subreddits the posts will still show up in your feed as "sponsored". As far as I can see this new subreddit is seeded with just cro…

Reddit has definitely started a massive push in an authoritarian direction. I actually was permanently banned from reddit last night for saying "I didn't know shooting a guy in the nuts would kill him" for spreading hatred/violence in a video game subreddit. It kind of caught me off guard.

From all of reddit or just that subreddit?

Re: Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art

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Post by smsm42 »

benjaminbachman wrote: post #2

The only real news here is that Reddit mods are power mad tyrants, which is nothing new at all. AI generated art has just given them newer, funnier ways to be in the wrong.

It is still surprising - at least for me, I've been using Reddit for years but mostly niche subs, nothing popular - how such a petty power warps people's minds. I dread to think what a real power does then.

Re: Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art

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paisawalla wrote: post #290
schwartzworld wrote: post #239

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That may be true of the big subreddits. I moderate a small, niche one simply because I was visiting it every day for years and then they needed a mod. I saw it as a chance to improve an online space that I liked.

This is a common pattern with all organizations, but especially charities, non-profits, or volunteer roles. At first, the work is done by those who love that cause, and commonly some combination of - the cause becomes prominent enough that there is influence or prestige associated with the role now, that it attracts power-seeking personalities - the original founders are too burnt out to care, or clueless/trusting su…

There's a theory for it. https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

Re: Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art

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jjcon wrote: post #326
numpad0 wrote: post #322

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It's never too late to learn to draw!

I could learn to mine pigments and create paints too but we have better options now

Pick up a pencil, start from drawing a circle, a real circular circle... Caveman in front of a VT100 is still a caveman. Caveman with a charred willow branch in hand, is something a bit more than that.
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