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 got banned for saying “what’s this bitch’s address, I’m going to drive over there and kick her in the cunt”. Regarding Johanna Harrer, a nazi doctor who wrote books about abusing babies to make them compliant. She’s been dead for 38 years but I’m banned for threatening violence and trying to doxx her and using the c-word. I’m not going back.
I mod a very very niche emotional support forum, as a community service. It’s been absolutely blasted with spam since they went to AI moderation. The whole site is structured and run by volunteers. I don’t see them coming back from this.