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 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. 👍