Exactly. Block and move on. Don’t twist yourself into knots appeasing people, focus on keeping the users you want happy.
Corgana
/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021
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Not trying to victim blame or anything, but I find it hard to believe that someone operating a low-moderation instance would truly expect people who don’t like moderation to stay away.
Don’t get me wrong I agree with your sentiment and dislike that behavior, but what I’m saying is that asking or expecting users not to go on witch hunts or to behave in a certain way is a fool’s errand that will always lead to burnout. A more sustainable approach for admins and mods is creating space for what they want to host and not trying to control what they don’t.
Corgana@startrek.websiteOPto Quark's@startrek.website•Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI DelusionsEnglish0·24 days agoIn the article they quoted the moderator (emphasis mine):
“This whole topic is so sad. It’s unfortunate how many mentally unwell people are attracted to the topic of AI. I can see it getting worse before it gets better. I’ve seen sooo many posts where people link to their github which is pages of rambling pre prompt nonsense that makes their LLM behave like it’s a god or something,” the r/accelerate moderator wrote. “Our policy is to quietly ban those users and not engage with them, because we’re not qualified and it never goes well. They also tend to be a lot more irate and angry about their bans because they don’t understand it.”
It seems pretty clear to me that they view it as a problem.
Corgana@startrek.websiteOPto Quark's@startrek.website•Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI DelusionsEnglish0·25 days agoAbsolutely. And to be clear, the “researcher” being quoted is just a guy on the internet who self-published an official looking “paper”.
That said- I think that’s partly why it’s so interesting that this particular group of people identified the problem, because this group of people are pretty extreme LLM devotees and already ascribe unrealistic traits to LLMs. So if they are noticing people “taking it too seriously” then you know it must be bad.
Corgana@startrek.websiteOPto Quark's@startrek.website•Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI DelusionsEnglish0·25 days agoYeeeeah that user doesn’t really understand how these things work. Hopefully stories like this can get out there because the only thing that can stop predatory behavior by corporations is bad press.
Corgana@startrek.websiteOPto Quark's@startrek.website•Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI DelusionsEnglish0·26 days agoWhat is that from? I didn’t see it in the article.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•‘Star Trek’ series beams into HamiltonEnglish0·1 month agoIt seemed fine to me…
…oh my
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Levi McClain: Klingon Music Theory is WeirdEnglish0·1 month agoHonestly I’m just glad someone is out there doing this work
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•does captain Picard snore in Star Trek tng?English0·2 months agoI’m pretty sure baldness is not a medical condition…
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Bored. Give me a good "Living room PC" distro0·2 months agoThis is very cool! Thanks for sharing.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•[PSA] If things start feeling too toxic around here, remember that the 'block' button is your friend and always there for you.English0·2 months agoEverything now is rage-bait designed to get more clicks
IMO the greatest strength of the Fediverse is the increased number of mods and admins looking at everything. Don’t want rage bait? Join an instance that has rules against it.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•[PSA] If things start feeling too toxic around here, remember that the 'block' button is your friend and always there for you.English0·2 months agoAdditional PSA to admins not running a “universal free speech” instance- if you see someone someone being obnoxious it’s probably annoying your users just as much as is is you. Don’t put the onus fully on users to curate their experience. The Fediverse needs our adults in the room!
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Fansets have announced a mobile emitter, named EMH Mobile, coming to STLV 2025.English0·3 months agoThis is an excellent thing to wear in public and wait for other Trekkies to notice.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Top 3 episodes (all series) for a newbieEnglish0·3 months agoHappy to help! I would love it if you report back, we used to get 100 “How do I get a friend into Trek” posts/day on /r/StarTrek but very few follow ups on if it stuck!
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Top 3 episodes (all series) for a newbieEnglish0·3 months ago“Data’s Day” is actually a pretty great one to get someone into TNG, it’s fun, but most importantly, Data is essentially walking around introducing all of the main characters to the audience.
I typically recommend starting with TNG in general (I used to say because it was “modern” 😭) as it naturally leads into DS9 and VOY. That said if your friend doesn’t typically watch older shows but is open to them, then just starting with SNW or ENT is an excellent intro to the rest of Trek.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•The late 70s Trek series we never got to see 🥹English0·3 months agoI thought this was going to be a video essay on Star Trek Phase II but I was pleasantly surprised
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Pixelfed: "groups" are coming and they will be compatible with Lemmy (who knows if they will also be compatible with Friendica)English0·3 months agoHealthy for Lemmy, totally catastrophic for Pixelfed.
Get you a show who can do both