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
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.