Unpopular opinion: in this case, the system worked as intended for the benefit of the community. If all this person really has to contribute is a link to their own content, it’s spam.
Why isn’t his project valuable? You’re saying other people should share it rather than the author sharing it. But how are other people going to find out about it first?
Based on the votes, your opinion seems popular, but I don’t find it rational.
I’m not saying the project isn’t valuable. It could be extremely valuable. And I think it’s ideal if the author shares rather than someone else, so long as they’re a community member in good standing, with a positive contribution history. Real communities are made of people who engage, not just links, even if the links are good.
Why a ban and not a warning or content removal? Are we just getting used to the idea that we execute people as a first line of corrective action?
In this case ban makes sense to me because the account has nothing else to contribute, other than quota-meeting fluff. I never said ban everyone who breaks the rules. Again, I’m only talking about the example in the OP. But yes, warnings and content removals are also good moderation tools.
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From a time / money standpoint, it’s costly to create an account on reddit. You have to have a certain account age and karma to even post in a lot of subreddits, which is an investment of time. Spammers replace time with money buy purchasing access to clean IPs, paying people to set up accounts and spam for karma. The only people who are going to create new reddit accounts, at this rate, are those expecting some kind of return on this time investment.
They made a website around avoiding spam to the point where it inconvenienced everyone and led to a pile on every time someone tried to share their work, yet sold everyone’s data to AI scrapers and the Chinese. Terrible company.
My main account from years ago got banned, but for a completely asinine and retarded reason.
I used to go on Analog Photography a lot, and it was full of people who would pay for a model and take a bunch of nude or erotic photographs, where the girls looked genuinely awkward half the time but the subreddit had this ridiculous rule that you weren’t allowed to complain about it.
I made a joke comment about a particularly terrible photo being amazing and got banned from the subreddit. Then forgot months later when using an alt, made a comment and then got hit with a total ban. The site is fucking horrendous, the moderators have a ridiculous amount of power on there.
I also got banned for ban evasion, except I didn’t even do it. It was a 3 day ban in r/youll_be_banned where getting banned is literally the punchline, so I had zero reason to even evade that, so like why would I??
Anyway I should probably include all of the above logic in my next appeal whenever I feel up to it
Here is how it go:
- most expensive AI/ML engineer was layoffs.
- the spam filter was make by middle or even intern with vibe code
- Reddit want to focus on clean, non-bot, human content (to sell for AI training), so the go hard on bot
- clean data above all else, some mistake is acceptable.
- and again, maybe the intern who work on this see this model “good enough”
- leadership don’t want to spend more money to prevent incorrect catch. People are going to appeal anyway, why have to pay more ?
Reddit want to focus on clean, non-bot, human content
I’m afraid I can’t do that, Spez.
Imagine if Reddit got rid of all the bots. Traffic would collapse overnight and I’d become one giant “India wins cricket match” site.
