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
shadowban is the brick, its pretty much being abused by reddit now because it keeps the reason thier banning people more up to discussion, rather than a sitewide ban they gives you the reason for the ban. since mostly done by AI now it gives them the more reason to shadowban people.
What’s their end goal though? It’s just going to be bots arguing with each other if they keep it up. I feel comforted seeing other similar experiences here, I’m in good company it seems.
propaganda like FACEBOOK, probably. plus “datamining the users for advertisement and AI”, i think there still enough ACTUAL users for them to mine the data.