(Also Libs too, they deserve it just as much)
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anyone have this in a b&w format i can use with my label printer?
Not sure what your downvotes mean. That's clearly Sora's work.
Because we don't know the prompt, exact model, or seed to regenerate it exactly but without the shine. Also because they're a well known and well recognized troll in what is, an AI friendly instance, see their modlog. They've been banned from several communities for vote manipulation.
I mean, it is possible to just give Sora the same image and ask to modify it. It won't be exactly the same, but with a couple tries you can get something decent. Not to mention it can do transparent background images. The downvotes felt like a disapproval for suggesting using AI.
And regarding the user, their ModLog just seems like a blanket ban from dbzer0 cause they downvote a lot. In my Voyager local tracker the user has 4 upvotes from me, so they can't be that bad or a bot.
OP is just imagining shit about me.
Yup, totally not a troll, Can't think of any reason why this person would be considered a troll by others, nope, none whatsoever, totally doesn't have years of modlog history filled with incivility alongside their already prominent vote manipulation convictions. /S (obviously)
Oh, you're the power-tripping mod?
Holding a different opinion is not "trolling."
Downvoting every post in a community is brigading. Telling someone that their "depends" will get wet in the shower because they are explaining something that depends on factors is trolling. You are a troll, and you are a brigader, you are not welcome on most of dbzer0. Moderators are not obligated to tolerate this type of behavior. As evident from the fact that you've just been banned from this community, for the same trolling you've always done.
It's not an instance ban, they're still here. They just got banned a lot because mods in communities were tired of them blanket downvoting all or most content in communities, frankly I don't blame them.
I don't think so, this is dbzer0 such sentiment is favored here. Their affiliation with a Fuck_AI community makes it clear that they don't mean it sincerely and people see through that.
Referring to me? I've been banned without explanation for "vote manipulation," but never did anything of the sort. Why get all stalkery?
Feining ignorance isn't going to help you. Mods can see your votes, you decided that without any activity you were going to downvote hundreds of posts across a handful of communities, the mods noticed you doing this and banned your ass to put a stop to it. Here's a tip, mods can ban you without submissions because of a little thing known as Tesseract, want to stop getting banned? Start blocking communities you dislike instead of trying to brigade them.
Nope.
I see shit posts, I downvote. Maybe there's a string of them in my fred and I wind up downvoting a few in a row, but that's it. No bulk operations, no scheming. Those claims were especially surprising since I didn't even recognize the communities I was being banned from.
So all it sounds like we have here is power-tripping mods with flawed tools who simply disagree with my opinions.
I have no reason to lie about this. Now please stop making shit up about me.
See here's the thing. I don't believe you and I don't think anyone with two brain cells does either, every person engaged in vote manipulation tells the same story. Actions speak louder than words and your actions point to you maliciously downvoting large amounts of items in communities, or targeting specific users. It's useless to lie about this because mods can see votes on posts directly, there's literally a view votes button in Lemmy UI, and admins can view your Database contributions.
That's really funny because even if you're as dull as you seem even you know this is untrue. If one openly admitted to mass downvoting or worse, vote manipulation they would find themselves very swiftly banned, even on a skeptical instance who's admins give way too much courtesy. And you're a well known troll, which doesn't help your cause either.
No, sorry. I'm not going to stop saying things you don't like, because they are true. The numbers speak for themselves, you can argue until you're blue in the face that they don't but we can literally see them, I've posted pictures of the Vote View UI showing all votes on a post, every mod on Lemmy can do this, every mod can catch you in the act. It's a bad time to be an abusive voter on Lemmy.