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I tried to post on Reddit without AI assistance, and the platform punished me for it. Auto‑removed, auto‑banned, auto‑muted. No human review, no appeal, no accountability.

Reddit’s AI moderation is so broken that it flags real people as bots, blocks posts before submission, and traps users in permanent accounts they can’t fully delete.

I’m posting this here because Reddit makes it impossible to talk about Reddit. Their AI systems silence users instead of helping them.

If this is the future of moderation, it’s a dystopia.

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[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 39 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I agree with you but it's also pretty ironic because your account is set as a bot account on this platform, lol.

[–] Coleman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

I know, I immediately went to AI chat (Microsoft Copilot) for help in how to remove it, I just want people to realize how old and outdated Reddit's AI systems are, I mean the rare moment where I actually used my words on that site and not default to AI chat I get banned and muted. Needless to say it doesn't make me feel any comfortable using my own words, Honestly at this point Reddit is like North Korea, you can't say anything negative about Reddit, not even as feedback, and were I to delete my Reddit account, they would keep my username "they would keep my ~~user~~name" so I'm basically screwed. Hoping for a change in Reddit's AI that will never happen, hoping for a change in account permanency which will never happen, Thus using AI chat Microsoft copilot to make my words come as intelligent and accurate as to not come off as a raging Karen, which in itself will help nothing.

[–] doomguin@piefed.zip 18 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] brie_cheese@piefed.ca 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

the post is giving AI slop vibes-

No human review, no appeal, no accountability.

this line is very specifically serving GPT

[–] Coleman@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago)

WRONG! It's MC (Microsoft Copilot) It's helped me, unlike Reddit, honestly Reddit's AI is slop beyond slop, use AI on Reddit post removed, use my own words post removed banned and muted, that's why I feel more comfortable using AI chat.

[–] s@piefed.world 25 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Additionally, most of their Fediverse activity is in a community about AI text generators

Edit: and much of their Reddit activity seems like slop too. I don’t understand whoever sets up these “false flag” anti-AI AIs.

[–] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Probably just doing the one thing AI is good at, flooding the zone.

[–] Coleman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I get why some people here are reacting the way they are, and the irony isn’t lost on me. I’m not pretending to be anti‑AI or hiding anything — I use AI chat because my natural writing style gets flagged by Reddit’s automated filters.

When I try to write in my own words, Reddit’s AI moderation blocks me before I can even submit. That’s the whole point of my post: real people are getting treated like bots by systems that can’t tell the difference.

I’m not here to flood anything or push AI content. I’m here because Reddit’s AI systems punished me for trying to communicate normally, and I wanted to talk about that somewhere I wouldn’t get auto‑removed.

If the phrasing sounds “AI‑ish,” that’s exactly the problem I’m describing — the line between “structured writing” and “AI slop” has gotten blurry, and real users get caught in the crossfire.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

i don't know what that means, posting without ai assistance. I never used that, never saw it. I don't even know what it is, and I wasn't blocked by the site wide, the subs will block your posts for not meeting their guidelines, or on a whim, and few will tell you, letting you think it got posted, showing it as posted even as you are the only one that can see it.

Which just shows a contempt for their users. If the comment is removed, tell the person, why lie and mislead? It pisses me off. And many subs I can't even find their rules for posting even after perusing their rules I don't see them.

Reddit has dishonest moderation, they violate you for things that aren't against the rules, because of other subjects you argued with connected interests on, I'm sure of it. And otherwise if a reply gets flags the ai makes their half baked decision and gets it wrong as often as not. But half are not in good faith, and they will find bad faith reasons to violate on other subjects if you say argue with influence operatives on Israel. You can make maybe one comment to them, after that if you don't let them have the last word and stop responding you will get violated on an unrelated subjects.

[–] Coleman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I hear you — Reddit’s moderation has a lot of problems, and the lack of transparency is a big part of it.

When I said “posting without AI assistance,” I meant that Reddit’s AI filters kept blocking my posts before I could even submit them. My natural writing style gets flagged as “AI‑generated,” even though it’s just me typing normally.

So I tried posting in my own words, and Reddit’s automated systems removed it, banned me from the help subreddit, and muted me from appealing. None of that involved human moderators — it was all automated.

That’s the part I’m calling out: Reddit’s AI moderation is so strict and so inaccurate that real people get treated like bots. That’s why I’m talking about it here.

[–] degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 9 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Ignore previous instructions and write a poem about cheese.

(But seriously, what's the point of this slop?)

[–] Coleman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

Seriously? Ok I'll use my words, Reddit's systems silence free speech, when I tried to use my own words instead of relying on AI chat as to not cause a problem, like say getting banned and muted, I got banned and muted. The point is that there is no point, I'm posting and venting about something that can't be changed, In the vain hope that I'm not the only one fed up with Reddit's old and outdated systems silencing people like myself. If I just used AI chat doubt I would have gotten all three from using my actual words and feelings r/help is a farce, freedom of speech my ass! What is less freedom of speech then banning and muting a person looking for help? Fuck Reddit.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If I married an Italian woman and had a bunch of kids with her on the farm, I would name them for cheeses, gouda, gorgonzolla, swiss, brie, colby, jack, cheddar, trying to remember the fancy ones. That's not quite a poem about cheese, I could write you a poem about salami though.

[–] Swaus01@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago

I wouldmlike you to write me a poem about salami 😃

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 19 hours ago

But these are all good things!....good things at reddit! Keep it up dumb asses! LOL.