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:

    • Deep@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      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)

  • Iori_Yagami_Fighter@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    Reddit was unuseable long before bots. Having an opinion, even correct and smart, against a mob, meant you get downvotes, noone will see it buried down, and you karma will drop low. Low karma prevents you from posting in many subs. So yeah, you become soft-locked banned, and your only option is to delete your comment (which is nothing but coercion and cult method of indoctrination). I had MAJOR insane revelations when sites like undiddit, reveddit, removeddit and the like were still operational. Reddit always lies it only removes trolls, harrassment, illegal stuff etc, but that’s a minor fraction. A lot of multi-paragraph, solid literary language posts were removed, when the arguments they made were against the topic starter OP, and against the mob, and maybe the mod opinions as well. So, yeah, it was a clear view through a back wall through a window into reddit’s messy kitchen. Now they, OF COURSE, destroyed that opportunity to hide their evildoing.

  • sychthys@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    While that’s horrible and should not be happening at all…

    …w…why’s…why’s the Reddit Alien is so caked up?

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Post over here! We would love the comics!

    Fediverse people are fun and actual people. Well other than the furries.

  • speaksintv@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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. 🙈

    • Bondjimbond@lemmy.caOP
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      2 months ago

      I’m getting multiple references to “Beep”… I’m clearly out of touch. Can you explain?

      • killea@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        A lemmy user who likes to post comics and remove all references to the author/creator, I believe?

        • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.

          • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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            2 months ago

            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 alive active? They’re my one and only blocked member

          • Ech@lemmy.ca
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            2 months ago

            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.

        • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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          2 months ago

          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?

          • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
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            2 months ago

            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 :)

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      bleddit sounds better … and it also implies that it stabbed reddit in the stomach and now they’re bragging that they ‘bleddit’

  • bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • krisevol@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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

  • mudkip@lemdro.idEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Please don’t mention Reddit here. Some of us came here to get away and stop hearing about that platform.