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
thats thier AI moderation in action, it just probably detecting alot of things you said that wernt initially ban worthy and just decided to ban you, because you said random things over different accounts, and it assumes you are ban evading or botting. they have other wierd metrics to ban people to. like your brwoser fingerpint looks suspicious, or your writing style, or you made too new of an account.
sounds like you were shadowbannd too.