AceTKen

There's not really a way to "source" this until a scientist decides to create a longitudinal study on how people refer to themselves. I've never seen one, but maybe one exists. I think this one's going to have to pretty much remain a personal experience kind of thing for now!

I don't think our two statements are mutually exclusive. There's certainly a difference between education and being smart.

EDIT: if you disagree, what is someone smart before they get into school? Not smart? In countries where they don't have formal education systems, is nobody intelligent over there?

Is someone who went to school for 10 years automatically considered smart? That would mean that more school equals more smart. How about somebody who got held back and had to repeat a grade six times? Are they extra smart then? How about those that did so well in school that they skipped a grade? Are they not smart then?

Your logic doesn't hold up, random disagreeing people. There is absolutely a difference between education and being smart.

"Street smart is what stupid people call themselves when they want to describe themselves as smart."

• My Name Is Earl

No, this is some other user who was in here earlier by another name spouting the same stuff and posting pictures of dog wangs.

This isn't really my style. I tend to prefer info seeking and conversational English over animal dicks and blind fury.

Mods or Admin can. I can't.

Actually, I've been unbanned from 10 of those subs due to this post because it was found to be an unjust ban. Also, are you able to point at the part where I stated I was anti-image generation, or are you just being standard-issue internet hostile?

I was subscribed to one of the communities that I was banned from and was in there pretty regularly.

If I'm unbanned or not, that is ultimately up to the mods. I'm not really stumping for it one way or the other.

My main purpose here would be essentially to say that these kinds (multi-community, permanent, and over very light and expected interactions from normal people) of bans are not justified and perhaps mods should rethink the process and not assume the worst of everyone.

Oh, I'm aware, but they weren't as exposed as they are since 19.10 made them easily visible to Mods. It was MUCH harder to get downvote totals prior.

Non-biased explanation: in the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."

The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community.

The other bans from two months ago are from four 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: Added the info to the initial post along with some more explanation now that we've uncovered it. Should hopefully save me from having to go over it constantly.

Just one more for the road since I think the thread is dying down and I don't like leaving things on a negative note.

It takes some bravery to dip into a thread discussing issues and I wanted to say thanks for clearing what you did up. I may not agree, but I can understand it at least. It's important to remember the human on the other end. Moderating can be hard, and so can finding the line you feel you should walk. Thanks for running a Community on Lemmy. Shit's not easy sometimes.

If on the web (not a mobile client), you can click the three dots with the arrow pointing down under any post (including yours) and hit "NAME Moderation History". It'll show you what mod actions have been taken on you.

Still nope. Geez, you are really dedicated to thinking the worst thing you can about people, hey?

I didn't say unfairly banned. I was confused as to why I was banned.

I did downvote one post near the time of the ban. I didn't look prior to that. 4 posts downvoted in ten months isn't normally something I'd associate with a ban. People don't generally ban for things that happened ten months ago. Especially since the votes were reasonably more private back then.

It's all one story. The same story. It evolved as I discovered more about what occurred. It's called learning. Make an attempt to do so as well please.