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 had that same thing last year. multiple accounts got hit by that AI message without saying what it is.
They likely reotractively banned you too, looked at your current one that said that thing that got you banned and then looked at your dormant accounts to see if they said a similar thing or it was banned before, and shadowban your IP/DEVICE. they never did this up until early last year.
for a while reddit allow some time to lapse for sub banned accounts to comment again, or you can use another account to comment. but after the changes they dint allow it anymore.