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I noticed you outright block vpns in the chatrooms. That certainly helps. Systems I've seen that rely on voting can certainly be abused too, of course. I am happy to hear that there are already volunteer mods on here, and yes I was speaking from experience in the community management world, not as an author.

Thank you for your great project. I didn't mean to come off as overly pessimistic. Some scars... do not heal...

I was a volunteer moderator on a pretty popular game community for about 6 years, where the active userbase sometimes exceeded 10,000 online at any one time. We had plenty of 8ch garbage people, coordinated spamming from nazi IRC channels, Trump assholes just being Trump assholes, and sketchy CP pervs skulking around.

I am as annoyed by moderation as most people are, but people aren't going to moderate their own chatrooms and communities reliably, if at all.

If you're thinking of a scripted or AI moderation system, good luck, though who knows. Maybe AI moderators might work in the near future, though they'd be pretty fun targets to troll. Word bans, blacklists and offensive syntax filters are a nightmare to maintain, that's the way channels have been moderated for the past 30 years.

The sad truth is that safe places require human moderators who care about the community to spend time protecting it. It's a job nobody wants to do and burnout is a bitch. If there were a few trustworthy people who have a lot of history with perchance and the community who could be online, having it set up so that users could just ping them reports of abuse/scams/CP and they would have the power to intervene on anyone's thing that was opened to the public.

That's the only way. Spending time trying to code a way around this is going to suck your brains out.

It's way better at doing certain things, I'm impressed overall, but it is strange that I can't tell it to render a person that looks like somebody famous, just because that's the easiest way to get a certain look. It can render presidents, that's about it.

That's a very optimistic answer to a very big hydra. How do you reckon?

William Fox (who was a monumental bastard of the highest order) went to prison in the 1940s because he thought FDR would allow him to monopolize the film industry in return for helping to convince Americans to join the war effort. Fox founded the March of Dimes. Yes, that was the original "Fox News" I guess you could say.

So what's happening isn't the new America, it's the old America with the worst possible person in charge. Ever since I could vote, I've been voting for FDR even though I know that's not what I'm going to get. If anything good comes out of this disaster, it will be that an Obama-like figure (I don't give a shit what anybody thinks of him, he was objectively a very good president and historians will remember him as such) will win an election and be able to get things done with an FDR-like mandate. Trump has really opened the hatches for all kinds of horrible backlash.

The American left is engaged in a slow and unconscious suicide. Meanwhile, conservatives are fucking evil as fuck.

I'll take a Trotsky over a Stalin any day. Besides, this is Hollywood shit. The gov of California is a relatively blanched position. It's a showpony job by design. Newsom has power here because everyone that has power in Sacramento and in the county system supports him. Everybody fucking despises Trump except the neonazis at this point.

I got 25% success, which is so much better than the old model's success rate, with the following prompt, inspired by your post:

prompt: aooooooooga look at my new blond wife, cartoon guy jaw dropping eyes bugging out

Yeah, I know styles add a preset list of prompts...It's just that one would think this behavior would be inherently dealt with by now. Part of it's training, so to speak. I guess I'll be more vigilant about describing things without words and signatures, but it's not quite a "style", as in a general kind of inspired creation, if it's including a signature. That's more akin to just "copying." I'm sure this will improve with time.

Thank you for the reply. I'm a bit less knowledgeable on these tools you've mentioned. Forgive my ignorance, but what is meant by a witchcraft hack?

Also not sure what I've done to deserve downvotes... Peculiar. Anyways, the "unsigned" and "no signature" advice was quite good. I don't mind simply incorporating negative prompts into prompts; it's a bit more intuitive-- why are there two queues for rendering anyways? I don't order a cheeseburger from a diner twice, one order with everything I want, the other order with everything I don't want (NO ANIME CHEESE, NOT RAW, NOT SMASHED)...

By the by I'm seeing a lot of blatant "Artstation" watermarks and imprintings as well in my results, without requesting this. Maybe the presets should be tweaked to fix this problem.

Ah well. Here's to hoping. Thanks for the reply.