KemonoMoe

I mention it only to illustrate that I am in fact intimately familiar with what is involved in being a moderator. Not some brain-dead "do what I say" user. There are many things I think you should change, but not because I say so. Because it makes sense.

Not because I think you should "submit to greater power" or something. That, I am not.

Since you keep wanting a label, I'll give you one. You're a prude. But that's fine. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Only the way you handle people who aren't, like me, needs some serious work. And tbh being a bit less of one would probably be good for you. Especially since you're a moderator.

Along with your seemingly quite thin skin, I'm left questioning your suitability to be one. Another source of frustration for me, seeing as you are in a position to control something I care about.

Also, we're having two different conversations, one about what nsfw is, and one about how to be a moderator.

Stop confusing my arguments about what is and isn't nsfw as claims that I should get to decide what I'm allowed to post in your communities, without repercussions. Those are two different conversations.

Do I need to keep repeating that I ALWAYS and UNCONDITIONALLY adhere to the way the leaders of a given community want it to be run?

I blundered twice, but they were blunders. That is not up for discussion. You may interpret intent, but that does not change the fact that there was none.

For gods sake, I volunteered my active alts, and DIDN'T use one of my inactive ones to circumvent the ban. I got about as angry as one can get, and still didn't blow up your inbox or community.

On moderation, you do not have grounds to ban me for as long as you have done, and you have no actual reason to believe I would not follow your rules were the ban shorter or cancelled.

The only thing my behaviour shows, is that I get mad when wronged, and complain when I think things can be done in a better way.

My animosity stemmed from perceived malice and incompetence on your part. The malice you all but admit to feeling, and allowing to affect your decisions. The incompetence I see was partly a misunderstanding, but also not entirely. Yet that is still far more forgivable, than the malice.

I check danbooru because I don't believe in superiority of my opinion.

Neither do I. But you don't respect my opinion, nor do you ask or seemingly care what your own users think.

In fact you basically admit to using what I've had to say as license to think less of me, to the point of considering me undeserving of fairness.

If I only ever used my own feelings, I'd be posting without ever using the nsfw tag. Everything I post is stuff I would and do use as wallpapers.

What I do and don't tag is instead based on the comments and reports that I've received over the last year, as well as voting patterns. It is an attempt to tag things the way Lemmy specifically wants it. I'm about to hit 10 000 posts, so I think I have an ear for it by now.

Like I said in our original exchange, using nsfw tags when unnecessary harms community visibility and discovery. I am very intentionally trying to accelerate the growth of federated social media. As such, maximizing how well it does its jobs of congregating people into its communities, matters to me.

Maybe it doesn't matter for you, but I think at least some of your users care about this.

As for your claim that image boards represent any kind of average, here I have to vehemently disagree. Image-boards are populated by a TINY minority, creating entries and entering metadata for each image. The voting system is in no way attached to the accuracy of this metadata, and generally, each entry is only ever created/edited/approved by two or three people.

That handful interprets the guideline for the formerly three, now four, ratings, not some "what does the average person feel" metric. And as I also mentioned in the original exchange, due to the differences of interpretation that those guidelines allow, each rating on danbooru has significant overlap with its neighbors, which becomes an issue when translating those ratings into a binary yes/no for another community of users.

My own script by default tags everything in the questionable and explicit category as nsfw, when posting to lemmy. But images rated general and sensitive, I set manually. Both because sensitive is often something no-one on lemmy will have an issue with, and because sometimes something obviously explicit has accidentally been rated general.

Their rating system is great "as a rule of thumb". But it is fuzzy enough, that on the edge between sfw/nsfw you can't just go "this goes here, that goes there". It doesn't match what users on lemmy expect. That lies somewhere in the middle of what danboorus moderators consider "sensitive".

Image boards, next to an actual social media platform like the fediverse, are representative of absolutely nothing. They do a good job of creating internally consistent databases, maintained by a handful of users, but to claim that it is a representation of world averages is a massive reach.

It is like claiming Wikipedia is representative of the worlds general political leaning. It is a excellent internally consistent database of information. But it is not a good benchmark for what the average person thinks or believes. Because the average person does not write wikipedia articles.

In the same way, the average person is most certainly not rating and tagging images on image boards. What the average person DOES do, is report, comment and vote on social media.