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Experts: No Way to Truly Know if Redditor You're Arguing With Is Bot or Child (hard-drive.net)

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[–] TrickDacy -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The "automod" just removed 5 of my comments for complete bullshit reasons, but it honestly does seem like they did it in response to the exact same issue -- I claimed someone is a russian actor. I'm now wondering who runs lemmy.world, and what exact agenda they have.

Despite it claiming "automod" there were human-written reasons, one of which was "Provide evidence of shilling or this is personal insult."

[–] MightBe 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You do realize I read Lemmy right?

No, they were reported multiple times, and I removed them by hand, no bots were involved.

Like I said in the modlog, if you have actual evidence of botting, let's see it, otherwise, you are intentionally antagonizing people, and I can't let you do that.

[–] TrickDacy -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It seems like you assume I know a lot of things I either don't know or forgot about. Forgot about the modlog, still even looking there, it's missing detail, such as someone to message to ask a question. Also, ... "abelist insults", really? I believe I wrote a couple things like "what is wrong with your brain?" which would not be taken as seriously by anyone I know.

I did see the message about providing evidence of shilling... I am just curious what would constitute such evidence? In my experience you could almost never prove it, and ironically that is what the parent post above is literally about.

[–] MightBe 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It seems like you assume I know a lot of things I either don’t know or forgot about.

You admit that you have no evidence at all, and you are going around calling people who disagree with you "Russian bots"?

Suspicious voting patterns, repetitive spam messages, all of these would constitute as evidence, and our admins ban these spam bots usually within minutes.

"what is wrong with your brain?” which would not be taken as seriously by anyone I know.

You are going around and calling people stupid," it's just a joke bro" is not going to cut it. Ironic prejudice is still prejudice.

I don't want to argue with you more. Take the next 3 days off, talk about something else, think about how you can contribute positively before you come back.

[–] TrickDacy -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You admit that you have no evidence at all, and you are going around calling people who disagree with you "Russian bots"?

No I didn't, to any of this.

Ironic prejudice is still prejudice.

Uh, wow. No prejudice involved.

I don't want to argue with you more

News to me this was an argument as the first contradiction just occurred