That when you block someone, their comment vanishes from your sight. It is like they don’t even exist. That’s how blocking should be done. It isn’t like where on Reddit, you still have the option to click an icon next to their name and see what they’ve said that got you to block them. Why the hell is that a thing? Why should we care? If we want them blocked, we don’t want to see them ever again, including the ability to re-read what they’ve said.
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they definitely use ai for moderation, the reaction is often instant, and the reaction is often a mistake even a dumb human mod wouldn’t make
I was permabanned from Reddit for making fun of AI in a lighthearted manner. They wouldn’t reverse the decision after I complained. It was a dull response, too, like they didn’t even try to look into it; instead, I broke a rule for “inciting violence” when nothing I said was even violent in nature. ¯\(ツ)/¯
10+ years gone and over 160k karma so it’s not like I was a noob or troll. I moderated 4 or 5 subreddits myself too, and was a top contributor to many tech subs…
15 years gone for me. I was banned from a subreddit and they claimed I created another user name and tried to access subreddit. I only have one user name… wouldn’t over turn it
If you use a VPN it could be that, I hear they’re banning for that
If it’s like I remember - you can choose to use rules & tools to mod on Reddit, you don’t have to, but I am not exaggerating, there were hundreds of reports per day on the normalnudes one I helped with, and hundreds of guys a week who ignored the “no isolated erection shots” and had their posts removed, also so many women advertising, both of which were disallowed on that thread- I would not be surprised or annoyed if they got a tool to recognize those.
Also it was a don’t offer critique unless it’s asked for place, otherwise if you can’t say something nice say nothing, so comments got legitimately reported all day too.
It’s hard to imagine the scale of the bad actors on that site, it’s a constant flood being held back.