this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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The issue has nothing to do with their politics, it is that they're spamming and trolling. Plenty of people have their same politics, and because they don't make 15 posts a day on basically the exact same unwelcome topic every time, or write publication-length fanfiction about their "enemies" on lemmy.world, it's not a problem. Are you really not aware of this? I guess if you're not in the US politics community, you might not be. I'll do a report to lwreport with some details, if that's the place to put it.
I feel you as far as the admin team not wanting to step into the moderation of individual communities, but I also can't for the life of me understand why the politics moderation team is cool with him. I'm just talking to you about it because it came up, and because it seems nuts that someone can bring such a fountain of hexbear-type negative energy to the place with the full blessing of the mods.
Like I said, I'll send details to lwreport.
Yes, I think throwing those two out is fair. Below them is someone who just votes a ton, who devoted 14% of their copious voting output to the bot. After that is a major instance admin who decided to give some thousand downvotes. After that is a long string of clearly real users who are giving a long string of hundreds of downvotes. My math puts it at 83% of the votes on my server that there's no reasonable excuse for throwing out being downvotes, but regardless of the exact number:
People don't like the bot.
Leaving aside one or two probable TOS violations, it still gets a broad majority of downvotes from clearly real accounts. Every conversation about it consists of roughly 90% detailed well-reasoned comments about why it shouldn't be. No other bot, and very few issues, anywhere on Lemmy attract this kind of hatred and controversy. It doesn't even really have to be a big deal, it's just weird that the people who operate the server are so attached to keeping it there.
I'm going to drop it now, because you're clearly not interested. Just offering my opinion on things. I also spent some time coding up some improvements to the bot based on feedback the community has been giving to it, after talking with jordanlund and Rooki, so I'm not just talking out of my ass here. I am trying to tell you what the broad majority of the community feels about it, if you want to hear.
Thank you for this comment