Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).
Important notes:
- I don't use scripts.
- I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
- Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything.
- Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
- One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
- I don't troll.
WTF is going on here?
EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."
The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477
I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.
The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.
I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.
EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...
Some are super easy to spot yeah, others less so. And seeing how they obviously wish to pretend they're something they're not, you can't assume you can "always" identify them.
That's kinda like saying "I can always tell a trans person", just because you don't notice a person being trans when they are passing.
Whenever I'm suspicious, I like to just ask people to confirm that Putler has an ICC warrant out for him for his war crimes. Their reaction to that is often very telling, but sometimes they'll go with something like "well, Putin, like all world leaders are inherently blablablabla", sort of faking out admitting to Putler's bullshit while similarly not criticising him personally, but also pushing ideology that is not opposed to Russian goals (ie basic whataboutism)..
I post this because it makes me laugh every fucking time and watch the downvotes pour in: https://youtu.be/TlUsMuz9_RU?t=37
To be fair, at least the guy actually performing is possibly 'one of the good ones', along with a bunch of other members of the orchestra, insofar that 1) they're not fighting, they're singing, and to do that you got to apply to the musical company in the military and 2) they're singing western music, and they probably listen to quite a lot more than they're singing.
Idk they may have actually bought the propaganda, who knows, but like if you're just wanting to do conscription as it's kinda hard to avoid, going to the music companies would allow you to avoid actual fighting usually and western music historically was listened to by progressives in Russia.
But like yeah, it is funny. Especially those old guys in the back.
It's amazing and never fails to lighten the mood.
This guy especially:
Man's looking tired, bruv.
Those sacks under his eyes looking like a hog's scrotum.
I have a backstory for him that I've made up. He went along with all this because his grandson is the lead singer. He's proud but unhappy because he doesn't understand why they like this song. He also has no idea of what anyone is saying in the song, but his grandson seems happy enough.
Nah. He's bought into shitty Russian propaganda and has worked his whole life ignoring all his family matters.
I'm pretty sure those guys in the back are some sort of higher officers and have nothing to do with the show except being on stand. They're not performers, they're like, awardees.
So he's basically been just licking ass as hard as he can and that's why he hasn't slept for 65 years.
Sting - Russians
Lol, he was up all night to get lucky for 65 years.
"If only I keep doing good arselick, with good luck, I will one day be of promote!"
Seeing as he's on the stage, he wasn't completely wrong.
So, is this legit, or a very well done pisstake?
There's also a similar video of them covering "sixteen tons", featuring a man with the deepest singing voice I've ever heard.
It's real. If you look around, they preformed it for one of the morning shows.
I couldn't find a video of the sixteen tons, that sounds great too. I need to expand my repertoire.
https://youtu.be/dI9KBLb_8ro
Different event at better quality https://youtu.be/Pdm4YF9A7QM
thank you, thank you, thank you. So. awesome.