Thank you for the tag. I can confirm that both @petru@futurology.today and @areetx@lemmy.world appear to be a part of the same harassment / vote manipulation circle, and have been banned + content removed.

I also checked for downvotes in the past 24 hours, and those two are the only accounts that match the pattern. Looking through the data, AGM does not appear to be related to this circle. From what I can see, AGM is a regular user that coincidentally downvoted some comments on that other post where this started. Please don’t tag their user account, as they don’t seem to be involved in this.

I am sorry that this is happening to you, and I’ve passed on the method I used to identify these accounts to the rest of our team.

I’ll include the relevant parts of your other comment below, but remove it to untag the other user:

http areetx voting history https://lemvotes.org/user/areetx@lemmy.world

Petru voting history https://lemvotes.org/user/petru@futurology.today

They explain where the confusion comes from in the first two paragraphs.

Different wavelengths of light do affect some biological processes, and circadian rhythms are affected by light. From what I understand, there is some consensus that the brightness of the light source can affect sleep. There is no consensus on whether some wavelengths of light are better than others, but it was a reasonable thing to explore.

Cat just needs one solid killshot to win.

Cat might need three, if we are going off the assumption that it needs to take out all three hearts. Although I think octopi have one “brain” type organ

Welcome!

For the rules, could you use different formatting? A lot of users use mobile apps, and some of them don’t format markdown the way Lemmy does. The spoiler tag in particular doesn’t get rendered in a lot of them.

For example, this is what I see in Boost:

Perhaps you can do something like

## Rules

1: 😇 Be Nice!

- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: **friendly**

2: 👶 Keep it at PG

Which will format like this

Rules

1: 😇 Be Nice!

• Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly

2: 👶 Keep it at PG

You could also shorten some of them to make it more likely that people will read them. For example, moving this to the bottom of the rules section, or taking it out entirely:

Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanantly banned from posting.

I also liked the old sidebar’s guidance on “complete stories” because it sums up what this community is intended for and differentiates it from “comics” and “memes”. I don’t know if it needs to be stated explicitly, but you could potentially include it right at the top with the description line.

I’m also happy to help out if the moderation load gets too much to handle. Feel free to add my LW account if at any point the team could use more hands: https://lemmy.world/u/otter

There is deepwiki, which can give you a similar overview. You will need to do the subsequent animations yourself afterwards

Weird, it loads instantly for me. Maybe you have some settings that are blocking the page?

Thank you

After looking through the records from our side, we have banned the following accounts: @sxybaka@lemmy.cafe @battousai@lemmy.zip @ivar@progamming.dev @wildnessreshuff@lemmy.world @gradationstwope@lemy.lol @tactsquick@sh.itjust.works @lamdelille@ttrpg.network emkata2564@futurology.today. We also flagged an additional account internally to keep an eye on moving forward.

Sorry for not being able to deal with that sooner. However, in the future please don’t engage with the accounts as you have done in this thread. It’s reasonable to leave a public comment to call them out, but it doesn’t really help anything to engage with them further than that. You also run the risk of looping in legitimate users who are not a part of the vote manipulation circle.

Hi @HikingVet@lemmy.ca, I’m going to look into the vote manipulation reports from our end. Is this the most up to date list of the accounts to look into?

You could cross post this to !beebutts@lemmy.world 😄

Great photo!

!taneggs@lemmy.ca

The blocker runs in the main browser process rather than as a web extension, which means it isn’t subject to the limitations that extension based blockers like uBlock Origin face.

Waterfox is a fork of Firefox though, why would it face the limitations that chrome has?

allowed to refuse these orders

In practice this rarely happens because of how difficult and uncertain the process is. Especially for those at lower levels

This video has some historical examples

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TwPLqGkYnBA&pp=0gcJCcQBo7VqN5tD

The video isn’t loading for me, but from context, is it like surgeon simulator but for home repairs

Well said

I feel like this is all the more reason why these prosecution teams need to be spread over several people

I’m curious how this might work, or at least be different from what they currently do. You would still need someone in charge to lead the project, and so any controversies with that person can still cause issues.

They almost always get removed or deleted eventually, but sometimes they’ll get upvoted for a few hours until an eagle eyed user spots evidence and calls it out.

It’s also not OPs fault most of the time. It’s hard to spot them

Music don’t contain watermarks that ruin the experience in the work itself.

They do, and I find it a lot more obnoxious than a label in the borders on an image

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producer_tag

It’s available in text attribution/ metadata base.

When I download a song, the file comes with the metadata. When I download an image, the creator information is not there. When images are shared, it’s very often the image alone and not a link to the page with the image.

Also artists have been leaving a signature on their art for as long as we’ve had art. All people are asking is that you share the art as it was created instead of modifying each piece before you share it. By doing that, you’re deciding for other people what is best.

This honestly feels like a good opportunity for you to make a separate community and post your edits there so that the people who prefer that format can subscribe to it.

Thank you!

The more they do all of the above, the more incentive that companies will have to support Linux desktop