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
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While that’s horrible and should not be happening at all…
…w…why’s…why’s the Reddit Alien is so caked up?
Butts are funny.
Valid. Carry on.
who here got a problem with butts
Beep must have written the bot.
I’m getting multiple references to “Beep”… I’m clearly out of touch. Can you explain?
A lemmy user who likes to post comics and remove all references to the author/creator, I believe?
A bit further than that, they went on a little crusade insisting that attribution is advertisement. They kept making meta posts requesting that the rules in the comics community be amended to not allow attribution.
And going on a one man brigading mission telling everyone who dared to post that they needed to crop the image themselves removing the artists name.
Going so far out of their way to remove the name/website/anything off the image themselves and reposting it in the same community.
Is beep still
aliveactive? They’re my one and only blocked memberIs beep still
aliveactive? They’re my one and only blocked memberAFAIK, yes, and they’ve given up on their weird crusade.
Nah just last week he posted a comic with the author’s name cropped out
Well, fuck.
I think because they amended the rules to say you can’t crop out the attribution.
What an absolutely wild take and insane crusade to embark on.
Well he’s a hyper active poster beyond just comics, so now you get to see his fucking name everywhere.
They’re my one and only blocked member
If you want another person to block, the lone mod in c/linuxsucks is a similar variety of unhinged
They pretty much single-handedly instigated this comm getting a new, actually active mod team and a slew of new rules. Silver linings, I guess.
Yep, they deliberately cropped out anything they deemed self-promotion because “nobody wants to see that” and argue endlessly with people about it. One lesser side effect was that it made a lot of comics look like shit because the layout was designed with attribution in mind.
Are they still around?
Yeah they just have an emoji at the beginning of the username. However the changes they made comics do actually benefited us all. Sometimes collective discuss can make good things happen :)
This is so ironic, considering that linking to other websites used to be reddit’s entire point.
Hey, your work is always welcome here.
Reddit crappy automoderation had been known in the Spanish speaking communities for years.
“Negro” in Spanish means black as the colour, but the AEO may interpret it as that some countries who do not usually speak Spanish may use it as a racial slur.
This is no joke, once they auto-ban me for talking about how a black coloured wall would hide the grime better.
this is lies to cover up the racism problem in the hispanic reddit community.
we banned you cus youre even racist against walls!
best regards
reddit automod
beep boop
I was there 14 years and never had a ban. Not even a warning. In the last 6 months I was banned 4 times for comments ranging from “ice gonna mess with someone exercising their 2A and find out” to pointing out a mod’s contradiction when he said Harris both was anti-gun AND admitted she said in an interview she carried a Glock. He kept messaging me in DMs via modmail (which you can’t block) even after I asked them to block me.
My final, site wide ban for every account linked to my device was for saying Don chomo’s seizing of immigrant bank accounts was akin to Jews having their property taken by nazis.
On appeal they actually replied that the permanent ban stays because I was “targeting a group of people”. I didn’t even know what to say.
However if it wasn’t for that dumb shit it was gonna be for something else. I was a top 1% commenter too.
Deleted all my accounts, removed the app, and won’t be back.
I was there for a good while too but got baited by someone who started spamming me with messages repeating the same questions on the same comments when I stopped responding. I eventually told them to fuck off and got shadow banned. I appealed, gave it a week and then deleted the account and the app. I’m done with them. They won’t even stand by their own decisions and explain what rule I violated. They basically brick your account without even telling you, it’s such a weird policy.
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.
fuck. you can say fuck.
Grownups can also choose not to.
Then pick a different word. Don’t censor the one you obviously are half using anyway.
Exactly. I still say FUCK in my head so what the F–k does this fucking accomplish? Nobody ever explains.
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.
Post over here! We would love the comics!
Fediverse people are fun and actual people. Well other than the furries.
I do post here! I don’t have my whole archive here, but I started [email protected] recently and crosspost from there.
sounds like loveandhex needs another subscriber
Nothing to see here
Am I blocked or something!?
Nothing from that community has federated to your instance yet. Visit it from the host instance, and you see plenty of recent activity: https://lemmy.ca/c/LoveAndHex
Someone from your instance has to subscribe to the community. I believe that causes future posts to start getting federated to your instance.
There are still -people- on reddit?
Good.
Reddit is shit and it deserves to die at the hands of its own stupidity.
it was fun before it became ubiquitous. now it’s a monster that’s going to be the next Pinterest (ie getting blocked from my search results)
Reddit can entirely go fuck itself.
that seems to be their priority…
Love and Hex is a great comic.
Thank you!
Wait wait wait wait wait. You’re the author???
This comic is better than any comic you ever see in r/comics
Pizza-whatever always makes the front page with some shit worse than Garfield
Frame 1: “I’m a strong independant woman!”
Frame 2: She throws up
Frame 3: She wipes her mouth
Frame 4: Sorry, I though about Trump
Reddit: OMG THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN EVER OMG HAHAHAHAHAH SO FUNNY HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
