• PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    !superbowl@lemmy.world 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.

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    My communities are all going slow and steady as usual. !cybermoe@ani.social is likely to reach 1k subs soon.

    I’ve been really enjoying !deadlock@sopuli.xyz 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 !touhou@lemmy.world 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 !touhou@ani.social under my wing instead, so go sub there if you like Touhou, or the type of content I post in general :D