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
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.
Yeah, I had been there 15 years and nothing.
I got banned 3 times in Jan this year, the third being permenant.
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?
It is perfect I my opinion
I think my reddit ban history could be taken as evidence of oppositional defiant disorder, but I knew full well what I was doing fuck the huff. I’m not sure where that ends up.
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 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
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.