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submitted 3 weeks ago by Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] sychthys@lemmy.world 173 points 3 weeks ago

While that's horrible and should not be happening at all...

...w...why's...why's the Reddit Alien is so caked up?

[-] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 135 points 3 weeks ago

Butts are funny.

[-] sychthys@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago

Valid. Carry on.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

who here got a problem with butts

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[-] volore@scribe.disroot.org 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

someone had to say it, that alien has ass. I'm not against a finely detailed ass in art, but this seems hardly the time nor place.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Don't body shame

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[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 96 points 3 weeks ago

Beep must have written the bot.

[-] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 weeks ago

I'm getting multiple references to "Beep"... I'm clearly out of touch. Can you explain?

[-] killea@lemmy.world 75 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] SatyrSack@quokk.au 61 points 3 weeks 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 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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

[-] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 weeks ago

What an absolutely wild take and insane crusade to embark on.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

Is beep still ~~alive~~ active? They're my one and only blocked member

AFAIK, yes, and they've given up on their weird crusade.

[-] OS2Warp@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago

I think because they amended the rules to say you can’t crop out the attribution.

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[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 weeks 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.

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[-] speaksintv@lemmy.world 80 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks 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. 🙈

[-] Nima@leminal.space 23 points 3 weeks ago

fuck. you can say fuck.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

But what if their dad finds out? They will unalive op frfr

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[-] Jessicat@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

I had a similar experience. Years of use with no issue then suddenly an admin crackdown on anti-fascist comments.

Give it a few more years and I expect the site to be mostly bots talking to bots, subtly mentioning products and services in their comments.

Anyway, it's time for me to drink a Mnt Dew and eat some Cool Ranch Doritos as I play the new 007 First Light on my Xbox Series X.

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[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 11 points 3 weeks ago

Basically the same thing happened to me...

Reddit user for 10 years, 10,000+ karma, active in a lot of niche communities and even started a couple myself. All the sudden got banned multiple times in the span of a few months in 2025 for talking shit about Trump, ICE, China, and generative AI companies... And then I was perma-banned across all accounts and devices with any new account banned within a couple of hours of creation. Their loss.

I'm ashamed to admit that I was a too addicted to browsing and commenting Reddit multiple times a day. Like most social media, that's by design, as the algorithm is tailor-made to draw you in and keep you engaged.

It's much better for me, and for the internet at large, to just spend more time on the fediverse where I can be part of an actual community instead of a cog in some corporate data harvesting machine. I'm actually glad that Reddit requires an app these days to browse on mobile, because sometimes i find myself browsing reddit for a few minutes before the pop-up blocks me from continuing and then I remember to check the fediverse instead.

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[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 50 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] Archimedes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

Reported

[-] ProdigiousInsanity@lemmus.org 47 points 3 weeks ago

Reddit can entirely go fuck itself.

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 16 points 3 weeks ago

that seems to be their priority...

[-] mschae@discuss.mschae23.de 44 points 3 weeks ago

This is so ironic, considering that linking to other websites used to be reddit's entire point.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Post over here! We would love the comics!

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

[-] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 weeks ago

I do post here! I don't have my whole archive here, but I started !loveandhex@lemmy.ca recently and crosspost from there.

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[-] hanke@feddit.nu 35 points 3 weeks ago

Is that.. loss..?

[-] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 weeks ago

Readers can have a little Loss, as a treat.

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[-] bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks 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.

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[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

I was banned for comparing israel to the nazis even though the whole fucking world agrees.

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 17 points 3 weeks ago

Love and Hex is a great comic.

[-] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you!

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[-] Ray661@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

I had a 14 year account I think, maybe 15 year by this point, and I ultimately deleted my account when Trump got elected, but still used the mobile site on safari. Then a month or two ago the site became unusable as it shoved the app download link front of screen and covered all the content.

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[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 13 points 3 weeks ago

always send them a link to the fediverse instead of trying to fix a broken platform.

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 13 points 3 weeks ago

Artists need to start DMCA/suing reddit for showing their images then, if they're no longer acting of benefit to artists.

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[-] PokeMeoPHX@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago

My account on Reddit got banned from the r/r4r community for no reason as I was posting to find friends and I had a random Reddit mod mail DM saying I was banned I didn’t even do anything and I even followed the rules I got so fed up that I decided to try places like this site and so far this place is amazing

[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

First they train AI on your data, then remove your attribution... Are they going full cartoon villains or what!?

I do upload my factorio memes/comics there as there's just not really as many people interested in them here, but if they are doing this then I'm going to advertise Lemmy until I get banned lol

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[-] Amanda527@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

That's not a healthy environment for creators.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

beep are you a reddit ai

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