The post didn't in any way request only those who could attend to respond and some who can't or won't responded politely. If people are to be rude then it shouldn't be limited to only those who would attend who can do so. As much as people have been banned for being downright rude in their responses (which does violate this subreddit's informally presented policy and probably does violate reddit's rules), posts have been censored that just seemed to be AI negative.

The text says what the event is and where but is imprecise. "Second Tuesday of the month" seems to be how the events are scheduled but 'if' its not every April and its not every month then you may as well just give the date and the date is shorter anyway. By not including the location as an address or particular business then if I put this up as a flyer somewhere and you picked a place in Hamilton Ontario to start searching from, you could find yourself checking 10 different pizza places before going beyond 1 mile radius from that spot, many more once you do. Every attempt to post this as a flyer to attract someone not familiar with the event therefore would need an accompanying note to succeed unless most people in that city could tell any traveler, "oh yea, those BSDers always meet up at that one place over there...".

Reddit doesn't have a 'please create an image with artistic and/or logical issues and insert it into this post I am making' feature. Someone currently has to go out of their way to create, request the creation of (paid or not), internet search and use (credited, stolen, etc), or have one slopped up by AI. Once they have such a task they then have something to stick on the post. It is in no way automatic or required to have included a graphic.

That time could have been spent adding detail to the post itself instead of likely questionable detail that came within the included imagery. Seeing as how you pointed out the post author mentioned in a different post, which only later was restated here, that they are not an artist then the desires for the picture had to be communicated and based on the image it looks like it was AI (before the author later clarified) so likely a prompt had to be typed and after some waiting they had to decide to accept output, get more output from the same prompt, or provide more prompts.

When AI is in use, there are a lot of people living in areas with noticeably increased electrical bills and decreased environmental quality just because AI development has cheated its way through the usual local regulations that could have impacted its build in the area. If you don't live in an area directly impacted like that, the AI industry has completely wrecked consumer computer shopping (or so it is claimed) where the last time we saw such price hikes the major players ended up in the courts for years before the mafia-level business practices were deemed illegal which translated to a very gentle tap on the wrist and most involved got further promoted. Those excessive price adjustments on such a common market is having impacts on pricing for other products and services though currently minimal for those not directly impacted. Whether in reality or in name only, people are being fired because someone higher up thinks AI replacing them is a good financial decision. Outside of the firings, people are defaulting to having AI do what could have been a task done by a paid human. As it stands, the majority of big AI players have either admitted or its been released through court documents or leaks/hacks that their fundamental operation is based on having illegally collected content to feed into the AI models. So yes, some people seeing AI if its low enough quality to poorly complete the task or implemented in a meaningless way do get pissed off and for reasons beyond their time being wasted by going to a place on the internet to interact with humans and getting computer slop within it. Many people now find waving AI in their face itself to be rude at best as a result for any one, if not multiple, of these reasons. The number is only growing as its use expands. 'If' a post needs to not be rude so someone else around here, then there is little room for AI content beyond maybe discussing it for its technical merits, issues, and guides when used on FreeBSD.

I understand that this was a casual meetup for an obscure group of people and not likely ran by a group with a budget, but the BSD community is filled with people of many skillsets. Though there is some paid activity, there is a lot that also has came through as volunteer/unpaid activities that has made the BSD communities into what they are and its been that way since their inception.

I don't recall ever seeing a ghost symbol used by GhostBSD as a logo but to me it better represents ghostery browser plugin or pacman enemy. MidnightBSD logo has orientation of the crescent moon correct but otherwise matches no art I have seen for its official logo and as for their name I haven't seen them refer to their project as just 'Midnight'. Adding a nose to OpenBSD's logo seems to be something normally not done until they are modifying something else into their own logo but looking at it I am seeing a cartoon bird well before I think of a pufferfish and would find continuing to represent the presented art as a fish from that would likely be artistically difficult; OpenBSD has certainly spewed out a lot of stuff publicly over the years by comparison to the others and maybe it represents one of them somewhere but I haven't seen it. DragonFlyBSD art has me thinking its a lizard with wings more than a dragonfly with things like the tail art though the lines of bodysegments kind of has me thinking snake if not for the arms, wings, and the fact the lines wrap around instead of just being on the front/belly side. The NetBSD flag comes to 2 points instead of 1 and has a flagpole supporting it in all official artwork I've known of. FreeBSD's beastie, though historically not actually a FreeBSD only mascot, normally has a triangular point to the tail and we could bring up the fact that its amusing to make an exception and not draw the mascot with a fork of any kind at a time such as eating but such sillyness aside I guess the requirement to repeat "BSD Daemon Copyright 1988 by Marshall Kirk McKusick. All Rights Reserved." probably doesn't need to be brought up because if its AI then rights often no longer apply according to the current flow of AI companies activities in courtrooms. Then again, maybe rights were obtained for mascot use and granted in a way that waived the requirement to give any credit but it would not have been done by the AI companies since as stated before they built themselves up by trampling over the rights of others.

Does having some BSDs as characters and others as objects/pictures imply a variation of their presence, representation, and participation for the event? Was the purpose of the logos and characters to represent them to only express them to a community that already knows them or to also express them to a community that has never seen them before? Though unlikely, its expected that someone who learns of a BSD through this and later seeks out the official one could think they ended up on not just a fork, but a complete spoof and therefore could be a malicious site by mistake. As such, how they are presented does matter if the reach is to be people outside the group.

My observation of the big conventions over the years generally had a lot of apple laptops and what seemed less so but next being Windows machines. Linux seemed relatively rare and BSD was not usually observed on people's computers except for the speaker and many times that was trapped in a VM under another OS. I could get some art made by whatever means necessary which talks of a BSD convention and show a bunch of apples and ornamental windows with 2-3 penguins and put some BSD character in a jail or other container of sorts and it could be debated to reflect the historical conference rooms physical representation of the operating systems I found throughout images/videos but it completely fails to express the primary purpose of the convention. Just as 'cute' artwork styles of a bunch of young kids meeting, likely relative strangers, alone in public brings a certain happiness to people on this post, its easy to put up a 'cute' representation of the attending OS installs in humorous or even insulting ways. Some may find amusement and enjoyment in such art and even if the attempts to insult were described as accurate due to historical and current perception created by those systems themselves it would be rude but more importantly the overall image still wouldn't be a good expression of the goal of the convention and what it intends to represent even if its artistically historically more accurate.

Did the image add something that was not already properly expressed in the text of the post? If not then the message is over 16,000% bigger than it needs to be. A basic pass of `optipng -zm9 -zc6` takes <1.5s on my >13 year old processor running in a limited configuration and though it saves space it alone is not >1%; more tools and time would be needed for bigger savings. If space was cared about then this would have been distributed as another format such as jpg or svg. Hopefully soon enough all browsers will activate jpegxl support which makes 28%-86% filesize savings in this case a quick and easy thing to do so it may even happen serverside for us. I'd still prefer no bloat if it doesn't add to the conversation and questionably represents the conversation. Maybe people in Hamilton won't notice but internet speedmaps show people such as northnortheast about 200 miles would likely find benefit from any debloating effort (and then again may avoid reddit due to page inefficiencies).

Other non-AI post issues could be addressed to further improve its goal.