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Looking at the rules now, you’ve even updated them to make way more sense.

That essentially means you now agree with what I was trying to tell you.

Which begs the question:

WHY THE FUCK AM I STILL BANNED?!

And, unfortunately this points to you knowing you fucked up. But the right time to correct a mistake and make up with someone your wronged, is anytime before they call you on it.

I actually do personally check whether every image is nsfw, but I do that by, you know, looking at it.

My script does also check for booru ratings like questionable and explicit. I made it check for the sensitive tag for a while, but immediately removed that because I was getting more than 50% false positives.

It’s not a consistent rating on boorus, which is why using it as a hard line is stupid.

They’re full of shit. Ask them if they’ve blocked me, because I got complete radio silence when I tried to reason with them.

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Dude. I literally deleted the post and left the comment at the same time. I complied. IMMEDIATELY. I FUCKING TOLD YOU THIS IN A DM RIGHT AFTER NOTICING THE BAN.

It wasn’t a snarky response. I was telling you I would stop posting if you kept making no sense.

Even if your version of events made sense, you could have just fucking removed the post. Maybe slapped me with a 1-4 day ban to stop me bothering you for a bit. Instead you hit me with an instant no-warning 365-day ban. Followed by completely ignoring all attempts I made to communicate.

I was not going to discuss anything with you. I was fully aware that with the post deleted, you’d only see my reply in a notification, and be unable to reply. I wasn’t looking for a discussion.

There was nothing deliberate about my breaking the rules, which btw, at no point were that every image rated sensitive on danbooru had to be tagged. You yourself admitted in our discussion that a ton of images are incorrectly tagged “sensitive” due to being grandfathered from the old “safe” tag. AND THATS WITHOUT CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT NOT EVERY IMAGE EVER DRAWN IS ON AN IMAGE BOARD.

It made literally no sense to me that you ACTUALLY expected me to tag EVERY image rated sensitive as nsfw. AND CERTAINLY NOT THAT ONE. I just used simple fucking judgement by looking at the damn image. I didn’t even find it on danbooru, but my posting script adds a link there if it can find one, which is I’m pretty sure the only reason you even checked, because you allowed plenty other posts to stand. Including ones posted after you banned me.

If you paid any attention to contributors, you’d know I don’t even control exactly what I post and when. My posts are automated using a tool I maintain, which makes posts at random intervals from a collection of content I curate in advance.

As far as I could tell, you were the one being snarky and passive-aggressive, so I was fully done with contributing to the community for the moment, and literally meant what I said. To me it seemed you got deliberately overzealous with your enforcement of the rules just to fuck with me.

Nothing in our discussion gave me the impression that zero tolerance was the actual rule, the sidebar stated that this was a “general rule of thumb”, not some hard line for which you ban people the moment they express frustration with your bullshit.

If you had done literally nothing, I would simply have stopped posting on my own, until you started making sense. Instead you ban me, which means I can’t even sub to get touhou content in my feed anymore, let alone upvote or comment.

You actively placed yourself between me and something I like, so now I have to be out here trying to slowly replace you: [email protected]

And this is before we consider the fact that despite my asking you to explicitly remove my content from the community (as I can’t edit or even delete it while banned, which also proves I deleted my own post before I even knew you’d ban me), YOU FUCKING RESTORED A COMMENT OF MINE.

I literally had to email the lemmy.world admins to go over your head and get my contributions removed.

I’ve been expecting you to own up to your massive overreaction and failiure to respect a users right to remove content, instead your conduct is remaining completely unacceptable.

Others have made long lists. But really, it boils down to just one thing.

We need stop growing for growths sake, at the expense of literally everything else.

We are screwing up the environment, science, technology, education, childhood, health, work, art, communication, transportation, and everything else, just so number can go up.

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Exactly.

So the best way IMO is to do whatever you think is right (and like another commenter said, make the only real rule be “don’t make me ban you”), and as long as you aren’t being insane, you’ll probably be pleasing the majority of users just by coincidence.

I’d add that you should always be ready to change a decision, based on new events and arguments, or if you missed something. The biggest reason I think some mods go a little insane, is that they try to be infallible, but when they inevitably fail, they try to pretend the decision was correct anyway.

The way I moderate, is to be unashamedly selfish, with a sprinkling of impartiality.

Basically, I do whatever I would want “the mods” to do if I were a user. Obviously, there are other users, but since the point of me bothering with the whole thing is to facilitate the kind of activity I personally enjoy, considerations for people who want my communities to be something different, is simply not a priority.

Unless I joined a mod team that existed already, I decide.

If someone complains or has a suggestion, I do make an effort to actually consider what they are saying, but then I still decide what will or won’t happen. I’m doing the work in order to have communities I actually like, not the adoration of a bunch of thankful users. If you compromise on the former for the latter, why even put in the effort? Either way, there will be a set of people who like what you do, and a set of people don’t. So why please other people at the expense of pleasing yourself?

Unless you actually open things up to be voted on, the goal is to be a benevolent dictator. You can’t please everyone, but that doesn’t mean you have to make yourself one of the unhappy ones. You may be a mod, but we’re ALL users. That means what you want to do, even as a mod, matters too.

Depends on the chapter. Some stuff is clearly final. Like there isn’t any art of Geralt or Ciri that isn’t close to how they actually look in the game.

It’s a free pdf download, if you have the game on GOG.

Yeah, that is controversial.

Since, if you just want to get into it, they literally did a movie version of the beginning of the story called “Episode of East Blue”, which IIRC is pretty good.

It’s a very compressed re-telling of the East Blue saga, and skips stuff like Logue Town, but it’s well acted, animated and scored. And isn’t live-action.

Ah. I see what you mean. This art is from the Novigrad chapter, but most of the art is abstract city vistas from above/street level. I’d assume they didn’t have towns and cities planned out in any concrete detail when it came to layout, so at the stage of when the art is from, the work mostly seems to explore the style they wanted to do for various settlements in the game.

This doesn’t quite match Oxenfurt, either. It is a closer match than with Novigrad for obvious reasons, but few of the works in the art-book match actual in-game locations to a significant extent.

PBC has a really neat art-style. I linked to their twitter in post body, but you can find their stuff all over.

I agree, actually.

The quality is monstrously inconsistent, and even though the animation is at times absolutely mind-blowing in newer episodes (look up some clips, its amazing) the SFX department is still working with what are now ancient audio samples, which for me, still ruins it.

It’s concept art from the official art-book published by CD Project.

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I’m aware :/

I’ve taken my activity elsewhere, with blackjack and hookers.

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They did. In response I deleted the post instead of tagging it, along with commenting that I would stop posting.

I felt the rules were unclear and inconsistently enforced. Hence, impossible to follow.

The only way to make sure I didn’t break them anymore, was to stop posting.

This got me banned.

To be fair, I am one, too.

That was never the rule. The stated guideline merely requested posters use the same definitions as danbooru (which accounts for the fact that not everything is actually rated correctly, or at all, since image boards can make mistakes, and don’t contain every image that exists).

But that is not how it was enforced in my case.

As such I deleted my post and said I would stop posting, as the way @[email protected] was enforcing the rules made no sense.

In response, I was banned.

I recently got banned from [email protected] for posting this, since apparently it’s nsfw.