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
Artists need to start DMCA/suing reddit for showing their images then, if they’re no longer acting of benefit to artists.
We post to Reddit because there’s a huge potential audience there. It’s goofy that Reddit would take actions that dissuade us from using their site.
Lol, said the scorpion, lmao.
Frog my dude. The scorpion was the one that said “Trust me bro”.