So, I have a main account, where I’m the asshole editor with lots of opinions, and then two others for things a bit more spicy.
Both of those have been suspended for “suspicious activity” roughly 30 hours apart. For, you know, posting what I usually do.
The thing is, one of these – I’m in the eight-year club there – is associated with an email address that was terminated for lack of use, so I can’t reset my password as prescribed.
The other was suspended yesterday every single time I posted anything, resulting in multiple password resets. I’ve not posted anything there today, but … hey, look, it’s suspended again.
Is Reddit just making a hard turn toward banning adult content? r/help seems to have a few other people in my boat wondering what the fuck is going on, but I can’t find any sources suggesting a shift in policy. And I can’t post in r/help on my main … the submit button does nothing.
My guess: bot mods. Reddit employed some LLM-based bot “moderation” across the site, and those bans are false positives.
Reddit doesn’t have an LLM moderation solution; the only thing close is AI generated summaries of profiles for mods which is a shittier version of Toolbox account summaries.
By “moderation” I don’t mean the unpaid volunteers taking care of individual subreddits. I mean the Reddit employees and/or tools enforcing site-wide rules, answering directly to the administrators and/or Reddit Inc.
In other words I think Reddit is implementing some automated enforcement of global rules, through LLM bots or similar, and since the bots don’t really understand what users say, they’re fucking it up all the time.