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
11+ year old account here. 🖐️
I deleted my only account before I could get any sort of ban. F—k that whole site, bro. I don’t miss it.
The only thing that irks me is when people link me to a Reddit post. Then I see some comment that makes an incorrect statement (there’s one in each post), and I’m unable to reply and correct them. 🙈
I suspect those incorrect answers are there on purpose to get people to make accounts to correct them.
I dunno… Maybe some. But a lot are only subtly or slightly incorrect. I don’t think the majority are like that.
If it makes you feel any better, a lot of the time those posts aren’t even made by real people. They’re made by bots who are designed to post something completely wrong or wildly contrary for the sole purpose of pissing you off so that you’ll engage and add to the post count.
Or sometimes they’re more malicious like the shit-disturber bots that BlueSky was (or maybe still is) plagued with that inject what-about-isms and negativity into otherwise healthy and productive conversations just to poison the discourse and inject conservative bullshit into leftist spaces. Not that BlueSky is particularly leftist, but you’d see the bots appear more frequently in threads where people were talking positively about leftist ideas, or where the conversation was otherwise becoming too “woke.”
So you might not actually be missing out on anything except arguing with a clanker who only cares about its prompt.
fuck. you can say fuck.
I know. I’m an adult.
I choose to censor it. People always tell me I can say fuck when I censor it like this. Sometimes I say the actual word. Usually with the -ing suffix.
I just find that sometimes when it’s “bleeped”, it makes more of an impact (for me) than it would have otherwise. 🤷♂️
lol, it does not.
It does to me, and I’m doing it for me. 👍
Grownups can also choose not to.
then choose a word you don’t have to censor.
censoring the word means you want what you said to have the weight of “fuck” but you’re too cowardly to fully type it out.
if you wish to diminish its power by censoring it, then don’t use it at all. there’s tons of four letter words that can be used in its place.
cunt is also quite punchy!
No. I do what I want.
Then pick a different word. Don’t censor the one you obviously are half using anyway.
No. I do what I want.
Exactly. I still say FUCK in my head so what the F–k does this fucking accomplish? Nobody ever explains.
The older I get, the more I find myself using words like “heck” and “dang”. But when I gotta say “fuck” I sure as fucking hell don’t censor it lol.
https://lemmy.world/comment/24364929
But what if their dad finds out? They will unalive op frfr