Apparently I’m banned from [email protected] now. That’s a community for posting AI-generated images.

My feed is set to “all”/“new”. So I see every post that comes into the Lemmy servers that lemmy.world federates with. Or at least those that come in while I’m on and browsing.

I downvote what I don’t like. And I don’t like AI-generated images. I downvote any that come across my feed. I don’t seek out AI-generated images to downvite. (That feels too much like brigading.) So, I wouldn’t, say, go to [email protected] and downvote every post there. Just the ones that “organically” come across my feed.

Today, I clicked “downvote” on a post from [email protected] and the down-arrow wouldn’t change color to register my downvote. Lemmy’s error messaging is lacking, so I had to go to my developer tools to find out for sure, but the server clearly indicated the reason why it wouldn’t accept my downvote was because I was banned from [email protected] . (I can downvote posts on other sh.itjust.works communities.)

So, apparently one of the mods of [email protected] noticed I downvoted some posts from [email protected] and had never upvoted any posts in that community and decided to ban me.

I’m honestly not really sure whether I or they (or both or neither) am/are in the wrong here. But I was interested to see that just downvoting could get me banned from a community.

Anyone else been banned from any communities for similar behavior?

  • @[email protected]
    14•8 months ago

    why didnt you just, block the community? if you didnt want content from the community, it makes sense to block it and not downvote it (which is a huge problem for some communities who misuse what downvotes should be for)

    the entire lemmynsfw server had a debate because of the behavior

  • @[email protected]
    8•8 months ago

    I have to agree with dudewitbow. If you disagree with the entire point of an instance, please block it.

    I’m the same way with AI images, though.

  • gimpchrist
    1•7 months ago

    You don’t like ai… why would you be upset about being banned from ai groups? You have a group called fuckai… of course AI users will block you if they come across your profile.