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The original was posted on /r/stablediffusion by /u/BlipOnNobodysRadar on 2024-09-02 07:56:43+00:00.
Hey just to be transparent and in good faith attempt to have dialogue for the good of the SD subreddit, we need to talk about a new mod who has a history of strange behavior and is already engaging adversarially with the community. Hopefully they don't ban this post before the other mods see it.
It's fine to have personal opinions, but their behavior is quite unstable and erratic, and very inappropriate for a moderator position. Especially since it is now supposed to be neutral and about open models in general. They're already being controversial and hostile to users on the subreddit, choosing to be antagonistic and deliberately misinterpreting straightforward questions/comments as "disrespectful" rulebreaking rather than clarify their positions reasonably. (Note I don't disagree with the original thread in question being nuked for NSFW, just their behavior in response to community feedback).
The mod "pretend potential" is crystalwizard. I remember them from the StableDiffusion discord. They were hardcore defending SAI for the SD3 debacle, deriding anyone who criticized the quality of SD3. I got the perhaps mistaken the impression that they were a SAI employee with how deeply invested they were. Whether that's the case or not, their behavior seems very inappropriate for a supposedly neutral moderator position.
I'll post a few quick screenshots to back up this up, but didn't dig too deep. Just some quick references from what I remembered. They claimed anyone who criticized the SD3 debacle was a "shill" and got very weird about it, making conspiracy theories that anyone who spoke out was a single person on alt accounts or a shill (calling me one directly). They also claimed the civitai banning of SD3 and questions about the SD3 original license were "misinformation".