this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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While i've seen numerous well-argumented and thought-provoking posts disappear from ml communities over the last two years, almost everything that ends up in the YPTB community is some kind of bad faith trolling, flamebait and so on. The post above is good example; it might not be YDI but it's clearly BPR. There's definitely no valuable contribution here and if post like this got deleted from any other instance, it wouldn't cause much drama.
Absolutely not.
The point that I was making is that systematized fake participation in online forums has been developed and polished to an incredible grade of effectiveness in the modern era. I don't think that's as widely known as it should be, but among practitioners in the field it's absolutely common knowledge and has been for a while, because of Russia primarily.
I do understand that some people have a strong negative reaction to hearing that. That's not my problem and it doesn't mean that me talking about that is "trolling." I just thought it was kind of funny that, at least in the headline, these guys were saying they were testing whether it could be made effective when it is already extremely obvious to experts in the field that it's extremely effective and these researchers have quite a bit of catching up to do. And, in fact, the voting of every single one of the lemmy.ml users except the mod who sanctioned it seemed to indicate it was taken in the same way it was intended: Relevant commentary wrapped up with a little bit of humor.
Again, I do understand that certain people in authority on Lemmy tend to throw massive hissy fits about anyone who comes in and frames things in a way they don't want to hear. That doesn't mean the hissy fit becomes my fault, or my problem, or that me posting it meant I was aiming for that to happen. I do get that it doesn't take some crazy extrapolation to think the point of my post was "lol Russia sucks amirite," but honestly, in this case, it wasn't.
It's only common knowledge because of circle jerk bad faith repeating of accusation. GOP supporters can hate immigrants and trans from mainstream GOP media, and even if Russian click bait farms are cheap, GOP paying them to amplify their message is GOP action.
The fantasy that Russia controls internet mind, but can't get it to side against literal nazis diminishing it through proxy war, is contradictory.
Me: So, what rating from 0 to 10 would you give this response just in terms of raw coherence and how much sense it makes?
Claude: I'll rate the response's coherence and how much sense it makes on a scale of 0 to 10.
Looking at the response to the original message, I'd give it a coherence rating of 3/10.
The response has several issues that make it difficult to follow:
Thank you for using coherence-bot, come again.