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:

  • JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    9 days ago

    Didn’t know reddit was doing this too. Last I heard of this was twitter having moderation or algo problems with links from what I remember.

    • Bondjimbond@lemmy.caOP
      10·
      9 days ago

      I think all these sites are blocking or hiding external links because they see people going to other websites as a threat to their dominance/profit.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      3·
      9 days ago

      reddit is very strange about link dropping in your comments. reddit likely see links as a threat to thier traffic to the site. thats why they are banning accounts. i think they only started doing this near the end of last year,.