celticviking
@celticviking@lemmy.today
Outlaw. I’m breaking free from Big Tech’s cages: surveillance capitalism, forced arbitration, and data theft. Building my own sovereign cloud at home with open-source code, self-hosted servers, and real ownership.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Agreed. And like I mentioned earlier, I was a little troubled by how many were ok with it. Luckily I didn’t see it used anywhere else, and haven’t seen it since the guy left.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Sure, but this was a little more than an automod, because it was based on what you did outside of the community, and banned you based on how many downvotes you got from other people.
So let’s say you got 1 upvote for your comment yesterday. Then 2 downvotes today. That unrelated comm, would ban you even if you had never been there,. had never posted in the comm, or even heard of the comm.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Don’t be too excited. That’s been done on here at Lemmy too. I think it was called santabot, and it would ban/unban you from some guys community purely based on your upvote/downvote ratio, without any other input. It was controversial, and some called him out on it, but others thought he was doing awesome with it.
He’s no longer around now, but I was surprised the admins let him keep using that bot the entire time he was here.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
they even brag about creating accounts specifically for this purpose
Yep! I’ve seen it happen me, which is why I created a new identity for myself, so I could get away from those guys.