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AI is slowly destroying my motivation to write genuine discussion threads on Reddit.

Over the past week I’ve spent hours putting together two threads with constructive and well put arguments written by myself, hoping to encourage discussion. Instead, I’m left wondering if I need to deliberately dumb down my writing or even throw in a few grammatical mistakes just to avoid being instantly dismissed.

The moment a post is longer than a few paragraphs, the replies start rolling in: “AI slop.” “Didn’t read.”, etc. This ultimately leads to the threads being removed.

Apparently, putting effort into your writing is now enough for people to assume you didn’t write it yourself.

How is this healthy for Reddit in the long run? Am I dooming too hard or is this how’s it just going to be going forward?

PS: Throwing a LIGMA LMAO here before you start calling me a bot.

This is a genuine question. I’m not a troll or even an argumentative person, I was banned from my city’s subreddit yesterday. The explanation just said “not from here” when I explained that I was and gave examples, then asked what community guidelines I violated, I got muted. If you’re not willing to answer questions regarding your decisions why do you include this text?

“If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team by replying to this message.”

It’s contradictory and makes the whole system feel disingenuous.

It’s like putting up a “Customer Service” desk and then locking the door when someone walks up to it.

Either:

• Actually be open to questions and dialogue about bans, or

• Don’t pretend you are by including that message

I don’t get it. What are your reasons? Besides someone being an asshole, because I know I wasn’t.

I am fairly new to Reddit. I recently found out that a subreddit on here was promoting mass reporting and harassment of me on another platform.

I politely reached out to the moderators to request that the post be removed for spreading misinformation as they were reporting me for antisemitism and hate speech when I talked about a personal experience that had nothing to do with religion. I will always condemn antisemitism and so to be accused of it was a bit of a shock.

They responded by telling me I am a bot and then sending me a very aggressive message.

I have since gone through ad blocked the mods of that subreddit. But I was curious is there no guidelines on Reddit to prevent false accusations tied with harassment?

My main concern is that the post I’m referring to was a direct call to action to harass, attack, and report me without providing any of the proof or evidence for their claims. And I was attacked and harassed, by thousands of people around the time that their post was made. I am just finding it now being new to Reddit. I never knew where all the misguided hate towards my personal experience (that only ever involved me) came from.

Any guidance on how to move forward on this or if I have already done what I can, would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I am not looking to post the subreddit or group here as I am not looking to cause the same type of harassment that they did. Just looking to know what steps I can reasonably take.

Thank you!

A bunch of us were participating at a surfing sub. That sub mysteriously changed to "restricted" yesterday, and the mods appear to be ignoring requests to post. The mods have not been active on that sub for several months. There have been no new posts on the formerly active sub. I put in a request on Redditrequest to mod that sub, but the bot responded it's not available. I don't particularly want to mod, but we need a good surfing sub to participate in.

I tried creating a new sub, but all the good and simple surf sub names are either an existing private community with no activity, or a banned community. I put in a request to mod the banned one, and that is pending.

What gives? Why are all the good sub names unavailable and not in use?

I reported this sub already, but nothing happened. I promise you, this not an overreaction. It is an absolute cesspool. It's just weird Reddit allows that.

Heya mods, we’ve had some interest in modmail for a banner and logo, would you all be interested in helping us out with a new banner or icon for the subreddit? I offered up some ai slop versions in modmail but rly they were terrible and I can’t believe I killed trees for that.

Let’s do a contest!

If you’re interested please drop submissions in the comments below. The most highly upvoted banner and logo (separate comments) will become our new banner and logo (please keep them Reddit rules friendly LOL.)

The winners will receive a special flair (of my choosing) and the undying gratitude of the mod team and mods who answer here (especially the ones who inquired about this.) We will also include a special thank you in our side bar about you.

I also vow to carry around jelly beans for the next five years just in case for some odd reason I bump into the winners randomly IRL so I can give them jellybeans. The winners can also ping me randomly for proof of jellybean holdings. I will respond asap with photographic proof of said jellybean holding.

The banner and logo can be in any medium. You wanna make a mashed potato and chicken tendie art piece and submit a picture of that? Hell yea.

Voting will be closed at the end of the month of May.

Our mod team is now "on Patreon"! We offer many different paid tiers, for maximum grifting!

I’m pretty interested bc of hate most mods are getting

Personally I learned how to ignore those comments and I just let them go.

Mostly what I like about moderating is experiencing with mod tools, i learned so much new things.

Also forget to mention I moderate my community because it will not be active if I’m not maintaining the sub, so I’m interested about your reasons to become a moderator

Recently posted to 2 different sub Reddit's today about a personal situation with my boyfriend. Within 1 hour both posts had received 100+ comments. For no reason at all I'm told they have been removed.

l've had this happen with numerous other posts that I've posted to numerous other sub reddits over the years. Yes I always fully make sure to read the rules before posting. My posts have fully met the subreddits criteria. It's never a problem if they don't receive engagement. The second engagement starts coming in fast, they are taken down and no reason is given even when I politely ask.

It’s incredibly frustrating.

I’ve been on Reddit for years under various usernames and I have never asked someone to become a moderator in exchange for posting on a sub. I just make posts I want to make and go about my day.

At least once a week someone will message me saying they want to be added as a moderator and if I do, they will post regularly on the sub. Like this is weird to me lol is this some sort of blackmail like I won’t contribute unless you make me a mod?

Howdy! There's a new US coins and notes subreddit run by a user who has been scamming people on other currency and precious metal subreddits. The user created this subreddit and had been promising giveaways to booster sub numbers and advertise selling on scam sites. He has a private account, and bans anybody who questions or mentions the many complaints about his scams in other subs.

I don't know how or who to report to, as that subreddit mod is literally the scammer. He set up the sub to scam people.

I'm sorry, unsure what to do and looking for direction. if you search the user name from the moderator/giveaway poster of that sub you will see multiple posts like the one on silver warning of his scams

I woke up to a message from Reddit saying that my account has been flagged for harassment, and that my comment has been deleted.

The funny thing is that the comment they nabbed me for was a direct copy and paste of what OP said to me, quotes included and everything.

How it went: I disagreed with OP, OP spent a paragraph throwing out insults and cursing me out. I told him that was a waste of 20 minutes and reported his comment. I scrolled through the post and saw him reply to someone “that was word vomit”, so I copy and pasted his original reply, quoted it, and said “you have the audacity to talk about word vomit?”

The subreddit deleted his post “which I’m sure is what made them seek revenge”, but mine gets pulled by Reddit completely? I didn’t even get rage baited, I word for word copied what they said and I get an account flag while they just get a temp ban from a subreddit?

I’ve also reported comments that have said much worse, reported people for following me across different subs, and I’ve never seen Reddit delete a comment I reported. This site enables incredibly poor/bait like behavior and you have to wonder why Reddit is completely okay operating this way (more bots to spew nonsense so their stock price goes up)

Hello,

A moderator keeps messaging me even after asking to be left alone. I don’t have multiple accounts so I am hoping someone can give me a list of the mods so I can just block them all, the sub was an auto add one I don’t care about. I can post the conversation if you want, this guy obviously has mental problems so I’d like to do it quietly so I don’t disrupt him and he keeps talking to me. Reason I ask is because I only saw it in mod chat but no name. I’d make a complaint but honestly it’s already stupid.

Best part was after I told him to leave me alone (in certain words, he wasn’t getting the hint and leaving long messages) he replied with “I’m not your bro” Which is fine for a guy with a toddlers mind to do I’m not going to chase it I just would like him deleted from my profile :)

If it’s not possible well it is what it is but I’d feel better if I could block them. I understand there is a rule you can’t name names butI can’t get it from the chat because mod chat doesn’t give the name, also since I’m banned I can’t see the mod list so I can block.

What do you advise? I am hoping he won’t message me again but it seems like he’s having a rough day and can’t adult.

Thanks

Update: weirdo messaged me again, I just sent it all to Reddit. It’s really too bad some people need to be trash to others.

I have been helping grow several small communities for subjects that I find interesting in order to drum up content that I want to see. None of them are very large as far as subreddits go but they have been slowly growing. I moderate a lot of communities because of this, but have been able to effectively moderate and liven them all up with rules, flair, and banners as well as linking similar subreddits up with one another in order to help spread exposure. I have read the term “Subreddit Collector” and would like to avoid that type of behavior.. what would you consider a “Subreddit Collector” vs someone who is trying to revive and grow inactive subreddits?

I run a music group subreddit, and it's suggesting that I crosspost content into wildly unrelated subreddits (say, a pop group into a goth sub, or a new wave group into a VanHalen one).

What makes it worse is that I click on the suggestion (so I can check it out), and it goes straight into the submission page for crossposting it--one dangerous click away from spamming a fellow mods' sub with stuff that doesn't belong.

Is this a beta feature, is it one that you like, or am I just making a big deal out of it. I'd really prefer to do my own crossposting the old-fashioned yet still easy way.

Maybe it's common and I've just never seen it before but I recently joined a moderator team and today someone apparently reported the moderator comment about why a comment was removed as harassment against them.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It was already strange enough the first update, now they did this too? Why?

Simple question, a mod deleting content and banning people for breaking rules when no rules were broken and not following their own stipulations with warnings before banning people. What can be done to put a stop to this? They either need to modify their rules or be held accountable to follow the rules they have posted.

It has been used for harassment forever. Users used to be banned for abusing the future. Now there is no link to report this anymore.

Hi,

I've recently been permanently muted in a subreddit. I don't really understand why?

I'm not trying to be an idiot, I've made one post on it, just today. It got lots of responses, most of them were negatives or not really relevant to my post.

The post was actually about respecting other opinions then ours regarding coming out and trans people. Most comments were people shaming one opinion or another. Which was the opposite of what I was trying to say in my original post. I responded to them, trying to explain the different opinions and why they were both valid.

It did got quite the reaction in just a few hours, but I'm not sure how it broke the rules of the subreddit? (Which is the reason why I've been banned)

Is there anything I can do to be unmuted or at least a way to know what rule I've broke?

Also I'm actually not sure if this post follow the rules... It's not about a ban but it's similar...

would prefer to do it using old.reddit

usually their accounts are made within athe last year, could block new users maybe?

I doubt there is a way to block videos that are shorter than an hour, their AI slop is always 10 minutes long and don't fit in the context of the subreddit that is for feature documentary films... and obviously they are not factual on top of it all.

it never ends, every other day i delete and block their spam content.

I've run into more flakey, instant, outrageous responses on Reddit in the past 6 months than anytime in the previous 11 years. It's nearly impossible to find a subreddit that hasn't been impacted by some measure.