Don't upvote Beep [OC]
I need to add to this that blocking is not the answer. Actively down vote if your instance allows. The practices discussed here passively harm artists.
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I need to add to this that blocking is not the answer. Actively down vote if your instance allows. The practices discussed here passively harm artists.
I've been thinking, how come I see multiple people bring them up and I haven't seen their posts myself? Turns out I've already blocked them at some point in the past
Same!
...and now I wonder what they did to earn a block back when I did it.
They're pretty obnoxious, so it could be any number of things.
It would be cool if we had a web of trust. So if everyone you've been upvoting keeps downvoting someone, then that someone's posts are hidden by default.
Example: ::: spoiler post hidden due to poor reputation Here's a long rambling story that looks like it might be interesting...
[pages]
... and that's why we should expand child labor. :::
I rarely block, but I tag with Voyager. That way I'm not missing any conversation, I'll see a warning for comments likely to be disingenuous, and they don't live rent-free in my head.
That’s why I tag instead of block. Then I get to play a little game and see if I can guess which moron it is before I see the tag. Let’s see now… is this one “AI bootlicker,” “Horndog trying too hard,” “Breathing app shill,” “Is ‘nonce’ the right word,” or “absolute fucking moron?” Oh wait, it’s “credit cropping little bitch.”
Quite frankly, I don't care why I did it. I block people to preserve my mental health, whenever I notice that seeing someone's replies is getting on my nerves. If that makes my Lemmy experience an echo chamber, so be it. I'd rather be stuck in my ways than have my mood ruined by words of a stranger I've never seen and will never meet.
No, this is not politics, you are not building an echo chamber. This is about respect, and people can respectfully disagree and I won't block them, but there's no reason anyone should have to put up with disrespectful users. I also blocked that one user that censored every swear word in shitposts. Fuck that person too. They both shouldn't modify people's works without permission.
can I get blocked, too?
No
Since I adopted the mantra of 'block early and often' things have been much better and nothing of value has been lost.
I was unaware of this guy and just looked him up.
Wow, what a loser.
I don't know who that is, but if I could verify/clarify by looking at their post history, I'd probably block them if what you say is true... ohhhhh hey, looks like the dipshit himself commented on this very post like an edgelord and is conveniently the most downvoted comment.
Joke with a message aside, I noticed I already had downvoted the guy multiple times before. Looks like he likes to post ai slop as well and becomes a combative baby bitch when called out. Even better, some of the ai slop uses the "hUmAn BaD" trope. And I did indeed check up on and confirm the cropping out artist credit. He's a combative baby bitch when called out on that, too.
That's an understatement. When Beep doesn't crop out the artist, they literally recreate a worse version of the comic using AI and post that. Yeah...
mental illness
I don't think that is the case. It is an A class troll. Trolling is maybe the result of mental illness, though.
Not only that, but also, how am I supposed to find the artist's other comics or the follow up if it's a series? Reverse search? It's incredibly stupid.
Sadly I can't block them...
I'm too busy downvoting them!
Good, I would be very sad if you specifically blocked me.
Keep going my bro.
Not me.
I wanna be there to report every attribution-cropped post I can find, at least in subs where it's applicable. And repost it without the crop, then tell everyone to watch out for your posts.
the fuck up loser 😂
Congratulations beep
Just a heads up that Beep has multiple accounts.
So the mods should do their job and block all of them when they pop up.
There is one mod. They haven't been active in months.
Can the instance administrator add mods?
They can. In the case of lemmy.world, it requires an email.
B__p moderates Dubai which is even more weird, the city known for its uncommercial stance on everything.
Anyway, I've blocked that idiit. I ask the mods to ban them from the sub and add the rule that you are not allowed to crop out artists credits.
Did you just censor my name?
Or do you consider yourself unworthy of saying it?
You don't like it when people edit out your name?
Do tell.
Fixed. Stop advertising.
🛑Stop
Stop advertising your name at the top of every comment.
Dumb for the dumb throne, cringe for the cringe lord!
more like: naming someone properly is a sign of respect. you don't deserve respect at all.
Just blocked them, thanks for the heads up 👍
And then it hit me. You know why b__p is cropping signatures and remaking comics with AI?
It's not because of some misaligned anti advertisement agenda.
It's because they can't produce anything themselves but want to give the illusion by stealing other people's stuff and desperately trying to funnel all credit to themselves as the provider of funsies.
That is some pathetic bottom feeder behaviour. Defeatist about themselves to even try do something of their own and submitting to theft for validation.
I can't believe I left Reddit and Xitter, to be free from AI bros and still am going to be encountering them.
The difference here is that we can downvote them into irrelevance.
Wheres the artist's signature? Did you crop it out??
BANNED
I am too embarrassed over quality to add a signature. I did this in like 20 mins on my tablet.
Blocking them isn't enough, because the harm they do with the plagiarism goes beyond stinking up your personal feed. This kind of stuff proliferates. People save the image to post somewhere else, and so on. Annoyingly, plagiarism doesn't seem to be against the rules in this comminity, but I really think it should be.
@[email protected] Care to weigh in?
The moderator has been inactive for months. That's why beep is getting away with all their rule breaking.
The admins are actively looking for mods.
Is there a post about this somewhere?
Not that I'm aware of.
On the lemmy.world support community yes. No fresh news yet, some gave applied to moderate last week but admin still trying to contact lawrence first.
beep also has a lemmy.world account and a fedinsfw.app account. I can't think of anything lower than trolling porn communities but he finds a way.
Edit: piefed.world too
Beep wouldn't know what an ad was if it fucked them sideways and never called back
I think b__ps mum was fucked by an ad and walked out on them after realizing what a shameful disgrace they had produced.
you assume that b--p even knows what sex feels like. and self pleasure doesn't count b--p.
I don't like Beep's opinions, or stealing, so have blocked him/her, problem solved
I get it, but doesn't that way of thinking naturally lead to echo chambers and yes-manning? It's better to clean the well rather complaining when we get dirt in our water.
It also leads to bad actors continually being upvoted.
There are a lot of people on lemmy I disagree with, and have not blocked. I believe his opinions aren't just wrong, but immoral. I will not continue to engage with people I find immoral. Will engage with people that don't agree to me that aren't immoral. My reply was descriptive, not prescriptive. No one should, or probably would, do something because I say so, just reminding folks it's an option.
Given how they lean into it and how they act in this thread and others calling him out, they're doing it on purpose. To piss people off. As in they are a full on troll and need to be banished back under their bridge, across all instances that give a shit.
That's why I made this shitty comic. People need to not block, but heavily down vote this behavior. I will die on this hill. I'm not going to look, but it is at least hundreds of posts that this fuck makes with the intent of hurting artists.
The whole "don't feed the troll" thing needs to be inversely applied here. Downvote all of it. Period. For every post that this idiot troll makes, there is at least 1 person that doesn't see or care what's going on and they'll download the image without attribution, share it, and the problem continues.
Negative attention is still attention. You need to deprive the troll of what they want. What they want is attention. Deprive them of it by ignoring them entirely.
I get it. But until the mod maybe wakes up, the best we can do is push bad content down.
KOLANAKI
Nice job. All their posts are being downvoted.
I can't downvote I'm not on lemmy.world
You can downvote if your instance allows.
My instance doesn't allow it.
I blocked Beep because they constantly horny post and also post capitalist propaganda.
And it's neither good horny posting nor good propaganda, they need to up their troll game
I'm pretty sure they just want to annoy everyone on Lemmy.
How come someone who hates ads is a capitalist?
Y'all don't have that asswad blocked already? Huh
My opinion is that blocking prevents attention to the issues at hand. The people that are just casually viewing won't block, see a good comic, upvote, and move on.
The real issue here is that there is a non-zero amount of these users that will save an edited comic and then share it. These posts should be proactively shamed and called out.
Don't feed the troll.
In general, I agree. But in this case, my opinion (and I am open to suggestions here) is that it needs to be called to attention because the sole mod is Inactive. This troll's actions cause passive harm to artists.
It isn't just being a troll in comments. For that? Sure, whatever. But when it can cause actual harm to artists? I take issue there.
I get that "harm" here is kind of subjective. Artists make pennies on click (at most, and that's if they are relatively successful).
Making the comics less discoverable is more than a slight, imo.
I absolutely agree with you in principle. But I think the topic got enough attention in the last days. What now has to follow is a new moderation for the community. As the lemmy.world admins want to have a couple of days time, they should be the ones banning the troll immediately. If they don't, the problem is the lemmy.world admins.
Is there a post from the admins? I'd love to see it.
Here you go: https://lemmy.world/post/45059459
Admin answered in the comments
Thanks for this.
Blocked them after that post. Either they're trolling, really stupid, or both.
Ah no worries, already blocked.
Thank you. Beep is blocked.
So, I read this community through RSS. How do I block him 😅
Click the three dots by his name and select "block user."
That's the neat part, you don't.
In seriousness look RSS link parameters. You might be able to figure something out with the help of your favorite LLM.
Another solution is to filter author field by name(client or URL) .
Anyway, I didn't look at the actual URL to figure something for you. But I hope you figure it out.
Edit: I believe actually that RSS feed parameters are only supported by handful of CMS only.
I have to say they this is a serious answer. It works and do this for RSS
Don't feed the trolls. Just dangle your carrot in front of them.
Where's beep?
I mean he always credits in the description. Not sure why this is the main focus of Lemmy
The issue was laid out in the comic I made. These images will be shared without credit; there is no way around that. By deliberately removing credit, it will remove the credit/attribution potentially many thousands of times in the long run.
> "for some reason"
> reasons are fully spelled out in the comic being commented on
You learned jack shit today
Ok tankie
Yeah
It's alright bro, I've got you tagged as "tankie who can't argue" from some time ago
Aww but he actually mad you can tell
No u
Upvoted, please create more.
Thank you for creating un-watermarked/ ad free content.
Eat shit, beep.
No, I won't.
My dear, Assassassin.
Woah woah woah, you're gonna just add an attribution like that? Now you're advertising for me like a big ol hypocrite.
Do you have a humiliation kink or something? Are you getting off to all this hate?
Shhhhh.. Incuming
Guys, look! He's so cool! It was a post about how much of a dickhead he is and he still upvoted, what a Madlad(inc)! Even taking a stand against all those invasive ads like uhhhh... an artist's signature on their own artwork. It's basically the same thing as those overly sexual ads for dishonest mobile games cramming themselves into videos made for kids, amirite??? He definitely understands the ethical principles of advertising without lazy hasty generalizations.
Also, it's such a great idea to comment on a post about your own shitty behavior. No one takes that opportunity to look at your profile to verify the behavior themselves. And it's not like when you comment to identify yourself that you give a convenient link for everyone to block you without having to look you up. Truly some kinda 5d chess move. I tip my fedora to you m'sir.
Blocked!
You’ve chosen such a fucking stupid hill to die on.
Well, at least he's dead. ¯_(ツ)_/¯