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’ve posted this before, but I’ve got banned twice for inciting violence on posts that there not inciting violence at all. In both cases, I was banned when my browser refreshed to the posted screen. Instant ban. No human saw my post. So I deleted my account. Seems like they feel that they are too big to fail and are just trying to clean up its userbase before it goes public.
Yup. Same. The first one I had actually indicated I was legitimately worried that the situation would lead to violence. Instead it flagged me as advocating for violence. The exact opposite of what I’d said.
Seems like they feel that they are too big to fail and are just trying to clean up its userbase before it goes public.
that is thier end goal, except it kinda backfired a little now AI is so pervasive and theres very little interaction on that site.