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
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 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.
If you want another person to block, the lone mod in c/linuxsucks is a similar variety of unhinged
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