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
meanwhile they cosy up to advertisers and introduced hiding post history so no sane person can tell whether somone is a bot from their history.
they also want to Hide potential AI bots too so you can tell which ones are AI and which ones arnt.
Something like 90% of reddit users are bots. I wish i could find the link but someone did a little investigating and that is the number he found. They also found that most the new users are from India.
and which one are propaganda bots from israel, russia, palintir , and then you have actual human ones using bots to drive traffic to thier own site/OF, theres a forum for that its easier to gauge this one then the propaganda ones.
Those numbers will vary a lot between individual subreddits.