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:

    • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      You and me both. I was like that’s not possible when I got banned for that. That’s a valid question too. To be honest and I know filters don’t think logically but thinking logically, wouldn’t someone be more inclined to take their money and leave them for dead than go through the trouble of cutting off their genitals and knowing someone or having the surgical knowledge to do such?

      Like castration of billionaires is way more time consuming than just finding better legal wording to get them to get them to redistribute their wealth back into society. I don’t think generational wealth is as big of a problem as tax breaks are.

      Think of it: they donate a building or build for example a hospital wing and that humanizes them to the public and the media and they look like less of a rat bastard while they’re doing it for tax cuts and writeofffs. I bet if they also didn’t need to spend money to be fiscally sound they wouldn’t do it too.

      If people who made 500k$ upwards got taxed by 3% more than the people who made 100k$… Life would be significantly better.