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
Reddit was unuseable long before bots. Having an opinion, even correct and smart, against a mob, meant you get downvotes, noone will see it buried down, and you karma will drop low. Low karma prevents you from posting in many subs. So yeah, you become soft-locked banned, and your only option is to delete your comment (which is nothing but coercion and cult method of indoctrination). I had MAJOR insane revelations when sites like undiddit, reveddit, removeddit and the like were still operational. Reddit always lies it only removes trolls, harrassment, illegal stuff etc, but that’s a minor fraction. A lot of multi-paragraph, solid literary language posts were removed, when the arguments they made were against the topic starter OP, and against the mob, and maybe the mod opinions as well. So, yeah, it was a clear view through a back wall through a window into reddit’s messy kitchen. Now they, OF COURSE, destroyed that opportunity to hide their evildoing.