!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com definitely has some cases of power tripping
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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If you trust this person to tell you, and everybody else here, how to speak, then either your speech is worthless to you or this conversation is worthless to you.
here, how to speak then
You missed a closing delimiter on the subclause. Is that still acceptable speech for you?
Actually it ain't. Good, catch
you trust this person to tell you... how to speak
We got a lot of content and vibe modding going on.
This is a classic suppression and steering tactic.
Do you think it's a conscious plan to mindcontrol everybody or is it just a basement dweller treating his mod powers like the ultimate downvote?
Both... And sometimes together. Useful idiot is the best tool for any threat actor.
Most conversations on the internet are worthless or I would even attribute negative value to many of them.
Most? Well not my conversations.
Maybe it's a smalltalk vs "largetalk" thing. Maybe most conversations are smalltalk. Talk that's just friendly noise or whatever.
That is a territory with which I am pretty unfamiliar.
But ya, 2 totally different kinds of talk.
Maybe trolling constitutes a 3rd variety.
I don't think there is much swaying of opinion in online conversations so most conversations is just bluster or time sinks. If anything of value is ever being discussed it is almost certain that astroturfers have infiltrated the conversation and diffused any real action that may have come of it.
Think of reddit. Think of the top 2-3 comments. There are a mountain of comments under those that just fade into obscurity. Their could be someone on reddit posting the "meaning of everything" on every post that hits r/all and it's been virtually censored by just the sheer amount of garbage spam that thoses post will receive. Gaurenteed the posts with the most engagement have been artificially boosted.
I do this constantly and get challenged a lot. The people challenging my ideas and thoughts arent trying to convince me of anything. They are trying to wear me down, that's the strategy. If that's what we are up against then nothing good will ever come out of these spaces.
You see us as customers, by your own words. So much for community. Trying to misplace and simplify the situation using this metaphor this way is basically also another way of justifying not even ostracization, but autocracies as communities.
I see myself as a customer.
In my personal experience, the people I see posting to !modabuse@lemmy.sdf.org deserved the actions the mods took, and are looking to whine to someone.
A majority sure but probably not too much beyond 60%. There’s a lot of pretty evident bad behavior on the mods side
Happy cake day!
Thanks!
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As a newly-appointed moderator myself, I think "customer service representatives curating a space" is going a little too far. I see myself more as a janitor taking out the trash while doing my best to leave all the art alone, whether I like it or not.
Stay Gold ponyboy, stay Gold
And sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
What do you do when that happens? What guides do you look to?
To me it's exactly the type of services a customer service representative would provide.
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