Reddit seems to have introduced sitewide AI moderation bots that are sweeping up users and outright banning them, without warning or explanation, for crimes like including links in their posts. This has started to hit some pretty well-known artists in r/comics.
It’s inconsistent and unpredictable - which makes it worse, since you don’t know what the rules are. As companies like Reddit give up more and more control to unaccountable machines, this kind of thing is getting more common.
Reddit has always had kind of a strange relationship with contributors and what is often called “self-promotion”. On one hand, it wants Content… But it can’t seem to decide where it wants the content to come from.
It’s nice that we’ve got alternative spaces like this.
Anyway, have some links:
- More comics:
- Patreon
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beep are you a reddit ai
Post over here! We would love the comics!
Fediverse people are fun and actual people. Well other than the furries.
I do post here! I don’t have my whole archive here, but I started !loveandhex@lemmy.ca recently and crosspost from there.
sounds like loveandhex needs another subscriber
Plus 1. I support anyone fleeing Reddit.
Waiting for ‘bluedit’ to dethrone ‘reddit’ LOL
My account on Reddit got banned from the r/r4r community for no reason as I was posting to find friends and I had a random Reddit mod mail DM saying I was banned I didn’t even do anything and I even followed the rules I got so fed up that I decided to try places like this site and so far this place is amazing
I had a 14 year account I think, maybe 15 year by this point, and I ultimately deleted my account when Trump got elected, but still used the mobile site on safari. Then a month or two ago the site became unusable as it shoved the app download link front of screen and covered all the content.
Reddit can entirely go fuck itself.
that seems to be their priority…
It’s what brought me back to lemmy. One account permanently banned… And then another too. I really don’t know why “Your account has been permanently banned for breaking the rules.” Gee. Thanks. So descriptive. 🙄
I was banned for comparing israel to the nazis even though the whole fucking world agrees.
What’s a Reddit?
well it’s not quite a ready, and not quite a ditty, but man!
so to answer your question i don’t know
A Ponzi scheme
Reddit’s the worst. Hopefully this is exactly the sort of pitfall that Lemmy won’t fail at.
huffman’s ideal reddit is populated and moderated entirely by bots, and we’re getting very close lol
I was there 14 years and never had a ban. Not even a warning. In the last 6 months I was banned 4 times for comments ranging from “ice gonna mess with someone exercising their 2A and find out” to pointing out a mod’s contradiction when he said Harris both was anti-gun AND admitted she said in an interview she carried a Glock. He kept messaging me in DMs via modmail (which you can’t block) even after I asked them to block me.
My final, site wide ban for every account linked to my device was for saying Don chomo’s seizing of immigrant bank accounts was akin to Jews having their property taken by nazis.
On appeal they actually replied that the permanent ban stays because I was “targeting a group of people”. I didn’t even know what to say.
However if it wasn’t for that dumb shit it was gonna be for something else. I was a top 1% commenter too.
Deleted all my accounts, removed the app, and won’t be back.
15 + year old account with nearly 10mil karma, and I was known for silvering entire threads, and I got banned for saying “Fuck trump and Obama.” At least you got a reply to your appeal. They couldn’t even be bothered to.
I actually gave them real life money, and they couldn’t have been bothered to even review my appeal.
yeah i was kind of asking for mine, posting twerking weegees the way i did. no other bans, but they claim i was inciting violence. suuuuuure automod, suuuuuure.
Whoever animated this spent way too much time getting it right. or maybe just enough?
I had a similar experience. Years of use with no issue then suddenly an admin crackdown on anti-fascist comments.
Give it a few more years and I expect the site to be mostly bots talking to bots, subtly mentioning products and services in their comments.
Anyway, it’s time for me to drink a Mnt Dew and eat some Cool Ranch Doritos as I play the new 007 First Light on my Xbox Series X.
11+ year old account here. 🖐️
I deleted my only account before I could get any sort of ban. F—k that whole site, bro. I don’t miss it.
The only thing that irks me is when people link me to a Reddit post. Then I see some comment that makes an incorrect statement (there’s one in each post), and I’m unable to reply and correct them. 🙈
I suspect those incorrect answers are there on purpose to get people to make accounts to correct them.
fuck. you can say fuck.
But what if their dad finds out? They will unalive op frfr
i’ll fuck their dads before they get a chance let me at 'em
Grownups can also choose not to.
Then pick a different word. Don’t censor the one you obviously are half using anyway.
The older I get, the more I find myself using words like “heck” and “dang”. But when I gotta say “fuck” I sure as fucking hell don’t censor it lol.
then choose a word you don’t have to censor.
censoring the word means you want what you said to have the weight of “fuck” but you’re too cowardly to fully type it out.
if you wish to diminish its power by censoring it, then don’t use it at all. there’s tons of four letter words that can be used in its place.
oh my gosh nima stop trying to make fetch happen. it’s not going to happen!
Basically the same thing happened to me…
Reddit user for 10 years, 10,000+ karma, active in a lot of niche communities and even started a couple myself. All the sudden got banned multiple times in the span of a few months in 2025 for talking shit about Trump, ICE, China, and generative AI companies… And then I was perma-banned across all accounts and devices with any new account banned within a couple of hours of creation. Their loss.
I’m ashamed to admit that I was a too addicted to browsing and commenting Reddit multiple times a day. Like most social media, that’s by design, as the algorithm is tailor-made to draw you in and keep you engaged.
It’s much better for me, and for the internet at large, to just spend more time on the fediverse where I can be part of an actual community instead of a cog in some corporate data harvesting machine. I’m actually glad that Reddit requires an app these days to browse on mobile, because sometimes i find myself browsing reddit for a few minutes before the pop-up blocks me from continuing and then I remember to check the fediverse instead.
26,978 Karma just checked my recently banned account that I’ve had for 5 years. I got banned for breaking rule one which is bullying, harassment or violence against a marginalized group for asking reddit something like: Why don’t we castrate all billionaires if we don’t want generational wealth? and all my accounts linked and I can’t comment or like. … I missed it for a little bit for the reason of not being able to correct people as well lmfao but I don’t miss it now that I’ve found something better.
Laughing at the idea of billionaires being a “marginalized group”.
I was there for a good while too but got baited by someone who started spamming me with messages repeating the same questions on the same comments when I stopped responding. I eventually told them to fuck off and got shadow banned. I appealed, gave it a week and then deleted the account and the app. I’m done with them. They won’t even stand by their own decisions and explain what rule I violated. They basically brick your account without even telling you, it’s such a weird policy.
I wish I at least got that much of an explanation. I lost my account there the other day for “multiple content violations on connected accounts” when I only had one account. I tried appealing and asking what the violations or other accounts actually were, and just got a reply saying the ban would be upheld without any answers
While that’s horrible and should not be happening at all…
…w…why’s…why’s the Reddit Alien is so caked up?
Butts are funny.
Valid. Carry on.
who here got a problem with butts
I need more fun in my life.
Snoo has an absolute dumper.
someone had to say it, that alien has ass. I’m not against a finely detailed ass in art, but this seems hardly the time nor place.
Don’t body shame
Beep must have written the bot.
I’m getting multiple references to “Beep”… I’m clearly out of touch. Can you explain?
A lemmy user who likes to post comics and remove all references to the author/creator, I believe?
Yep, they deliberately cropped out anything they deemed self-promotion because “nobody wants to see that” and argue endlessly with people about it. One lesser side effect was that it made a lot of comics look like shit because the layout was designed with attribution in mind.
Are they still around?
A bit further than that, they went on a little crusade insisting that attribution is advertisement. They kept making meta posts requesting that the rules in the comics community be amended to not allow attribution.
They pretty much single-handedly instigated this comm getting a new, actually active mod team and a slew of new rules. Silver linings, I guess.
And going on a one man brigading mission telling everyone who dared to post that they needed to crop the image themselves removing the artists name.
Going so far out of their way to remove the name/website/anything off the image themselves and reposting it in the same community.
Is beep still
aliveactive? They’re my one and only blocked memberIs beep still
aliveactive? They’re my one and only blocked memberAFAIK, yes, and they’ve given up on their weird crusade.
I think because they amended the rules to say you can’t crop out the attribution.
What an absolutely wild take and insane crusade to embark on.
They’re my one and only blocked member
If you want another person to block, the lone mod in c/linuxsucks is a similar variety of unhinged
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