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:

  • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 day ago

    This is shit, yet their banning people has always been inconsistent and unpredictable without knowing why. I got banned 3 years ago with absolutely no explanation why - just “your banned”. When I did the auto-appeal I just got a response “sorry, your banned.” Never a word as to why so fuck Reddit.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      1·
      16 hours ago

      the bans from last year are worst since thier use of AI has been introduced, they dont give a reason at all, for the sitewide bans. and then switched to shadowbans which are even more nebulous. AI indiscriminatedly bans too, plus even if you were unbanned from a sub because originally if enough time lapsed you could potentially comment in a sub again. but they were looking at “previous offenses too” in all your accounts.

    • Small_Quasar@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      My latest account just got its first warning.

      There’s a pretty horrific story this week in the UK about a guy with a severe mental disability who threw a child into a crocodile pen at a wildlife park.

      Someone said they think anyone who does that should be put in front of a firing squad.

      I replied that we shouldn’t be shooting disabled people. I got a warning for implying exactly the opposite of what I was arguing, while the original comment (which I reported after getting my warning), is still up 48 hours later.