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[email protected] had its worst day ever yesterday as far as downvotes go. I normally get the random 1 or 2, in rare cases it can creep near 10, but we almost got 80 yesterday!
I went to do my morning posts and saw a regular commenter shared some AI art they had enjoyed, and while nobody said anything, they were really smacking the downvotes. I tried to diffuse the situation a bit, especially since it’s a regular commenter whom I enjoy, and I don’t want the community to drive off one of the few actual participants we have.
While everyone already had the sticks up their butts, I decided to share the one cartoon post I had in my queue, which we also eventually learned was AI generated, so the same group brigaded me pretty much. Joke’s on them though, because it got appeal to All since it was a comic, so it’s probably my top post for the year.
Posted some more normal things today and everyone seems to have moved on. I debated if I was going to post anything today after what I considered kinda crappy behavior from the group, but I took the high road. But if bad reactions make me hesitate to post, they certainly aren’t helping anyone on the fence.
There has been a good smattering of posts from people other than me lately, so I hope it continues, but people need to be more chill.
Wow 80 downvotes! Some people really get their knickers in a twist don’t they? It would be interesting to see how many of them spend their free time making quality posts, with beautiful photos, complete with a few Fun Facts for others to enjoy…
Maybe we need to add a proviso ‘it’s just some fun, chill the fuck out’
Don’t stop posting tho, I love your love of owls
(btw, I recently saw a Barn Owl out hunting just before dusk, flying around the moors. We were side by side with him/her flying, and me driving, then we pulled over to watch from a distance. It was amazing, I’ve seen one before as a white ghost appearing, then disappearing just as quickly, as I shit my pants. This time tho I got to see the markings and it’s face quite clearly…great stuff!)
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If people can’t make a constructive comment, I’m sure they’re not providing enjoyable content anywhere else.
That sounds like a great experience you got to have! Owls have been amazing us and jump scaring us since the caveman days, and they show no signs of stopping!
Sorry to hear about this. Maybe try to reach out to the mods to see if they can jump in and open a meta post to discuss AI generated post?
I saw you mentioning there you not being in charge, but at the same time, you post probably close to 100% of the content, so you should be heard.
I tend to forget we have mods, as we’re typically drama free. I’ve talked to the original one a few times and they’ve always been helpful and have told me to ask for help if I need it.
They’ve said as long as it’s owl content, it should be good. I’ve expressed my concerns about AI images before, and I have no issue if it’s obvious stuff, which this was.
The only other time I’ve gotten anger really was when the mod asked me to do an actual Super Bowl owl event. The non sport and non US people were getting ticked and DMing me stuff.
People are allowed to not like things, but I do posts that don’t interest me. I don’t downvote hobbies or news that doesn’t interest me. Not everything has to be for me and my enjoyment, but other people can’t see that.
Today went normally, so it’s back to normal.
Not too bad…I’m mainly the only one posting on collage although the lovely Eugenia Loli has posted there too, there is a printmaker Julien_Catenese who posts their work on printmaking which is awesome, and several people are posting OC to abstract photography which I’m really pleased about!
I’m also making posts for [email protected] and [email protected], while trying to not burn myself out, or get too frustrated by lemmys photo upload limit (which can be really stressful when I want to make a Mega Post with plenty of pictures) … Essentially, I’m just trying to amuse myself first and foremost, maybe learn something new 😀
Nice!
Good! HistoryMemes is starting to get other regular contributors. HistoryIllustrations and HistoryPorn also have been seeing more contributions from other posters.
I dream of the day when I can post only rarely and silently upvote other people’s content instead.
I am the only one posting in [email protected] . I really want to see more people posting in there.
Seems like you missed the last “Health” post: https://lemmy.ca/post/27915485
I just created another one, feel free to promote it there: https://lemmy.ca/post/29975598
[email protected] is cruising along nicely with multiple games being played every day.
[email protected] got quite active from the start, now I have to think about a few other ideas for memes
Thank you @[email protected] , @[email protected] and @[email protected] !
I specifically requested to be informed of this!
Ah well, now I can browse through it all :D
I thought I had pinged you, sorry! 😅
I’m still the only one posting to [email protected] but I don’t mind haha
I think that instance has defederated with some other highly active instances (like mine) so unfortunately we can’t really help much there.
One of the drawbacks of how the fediverse works, I guess, though discouraging centralization is also good.
They are federated: https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]
Oh, odd, I must have been doing something wrong then! Thanks a bunch for pointing that out.
I super appreciate your community! Unfortunately I encounter bunnies and can thus make bunny content for [email protected] far more frequently than I encounter snakes of any type, let alone the royal python. I can try to explicitly look up royal pythons to post so you’re not alone!
I also think this is happening because right now, we are so small that we do not have enough users to split the snake-lover community by species just yet.
[email protected] is coming along. It’s nice to have posts get 100+ upvotes instead of just 10-20.
Happy with the traction on [email protected], got a few other people posting, hope to get more in the future
I hoped some other people would start posting anniversaries in [email protected] once I’ve posted a bunch, but sadly I’m still the only one.
I’ve seen it, it’s a nice concept, but probably quite niche, and maybe too broad.
For instance, if there is an anniversary for something specific to football, I might post it to [email protected] rather then your community 😕
My communities are all going slow and steady as usual. [email protected] is likely to reach 1k subs soon.
I’ve been really enjoying [email protected] and helping with an active lemmy community for the game has been fun. Even made an original meme.
I’m a little cross with the mod of [email protected] as they’ve banned me for “deliberate” rule-breaking. Not marking posts NSFW whenever danbooru arbitrarily rates them as “sensitive”. This despite the rules not requiring this, but rather requesting that posters use the same verbal guidelines. (I complied the first time the mod complained, the second time my post was obviously safe, so as nothing made sense to me at that point, I responded by deleting it along with a promise not to post anymore, this got me banned for “deliberately breaking community rules”)
As such I’ll be taking [email protected] under my wing instead, so go sub there if you like Touhou, or the type of content I post in general :D
