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
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”.