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
Musk did recently asked SPEZ to take down any pictures of doing the nazi salute, making him look like a fat walrus, when he was balding and had bad teeth.
you dont need a few more years, currently its 50-70% bots right now. worst of all its AI posting and reposting too. reddit is trying to obfuscate the actual numbers, by having bots “making interactions with each other” and of course opening the floodgates for the political discussions in many subs to be astroturfed.