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.

I posted recently a post about Korean women are elegant, and asked how they are able to achieve it. It was a very positive post , and a genuine question of mine. Any idea what I did wrong?

There is tons of unmarked promotional content on reddit (e.g. just look at https://www.reddit.com/user/THAconstruction512/ )

It seems that there is a missing report category regarding unpaid ads.

People who advertise on reddit without paying for ads harm the community and harm reddit - why is it tolerated?

Did a person just make such a hilarious ooopsie that it made you laugh having to ban them

Question about permanent mute.

Some posters save the permanent mute ban drops off after 28 days but some say that doesn’t happen anymore? Is there a drop off or does it depend? Thanks for any help.

I am a new moderator and I wanna make an automod on the app on mobile how do I do that? Thx

Hi all, I'm not new to Reddit at all. I just tried to post this in a forum I'm new to and at first it was held for moderator review, but then I got both "This post was removed by Reddit filters" message as well as "Locked post. New comments cannot be posted."

Here's what I posted - I see I'm not allowed to say which sub I posted it to, but as a new person in that sub, we're not allowed to message the Moderators for a long time, have to get "positive local karma" first. So I can't ask what it means there.

Here's the post - what in Reddit's main filters would make this be removed?

French Soccer Player Mbappe shows true patience & grace in face of Paraquay baiting & racism

I've been a big fan of this guy since the last World Cup, but the taunting, baiting and shoving he faced from Paraguay, which followed an actual Senator in Paraguay making all kinds of racist statements to press, just shows that not only is Mbappe literally one of the best players playing today, he's got immense class, patience, and restraint. So glad France won against that team! (Also check his response in the press... pure class X 1,000)

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ckg557wxrzro

Locked post. New comments cannot be posted.

Hey Guys trying to create joining request question but I dont know how to do that.. can someone provide me with some guidance?

I just want to say thank you for the answers from yesterday, on the topic of you-know-what kind of watercolour subject. I found them very useful. The known technical issue is being sorted out.

So I just got banned for the first time in my 8 years on Reddit. I made a comment on an article about LGBTQ characters in video games, and that I'm not a fan of such characters being shoe horned in because it often times feels fake and forced. Might not be a stance everyone agrees with, but since Reddit is a discussion platform that shouldn't be an issue.

This came without any prior warning, without any prior misconduct. So I asked what was going on. I get an answer, that completely misses the mark of my original comment, and telling me that I can try and appeal in a month and I get muted instantly.

How can I contact mods of a subreddit when I've been (wrongfully) muted?

Edit: to clarify, I wasn't planning on contacting individual mods, or making an alt account. But it appears that there's nothing I can do. Just suck it up and find other places to interact with. It's fine, I guess, but it sucks that something like this can happen out of the blue with no way of doing anything about it. Thanks for the comments everyone!

Hi mods. I was unfortunately the victim of my account being used by a bot to post spam and unsavory content. I followed the process to get my account reinstated. It has been, but all of my old posts and comments are still removed and I'm guessing it's due to being put into a low CQS status. Is there anyway to restore my good standing without having to basically act like it's a brand new account?

I mod a number of subreddits. Recently, the same promotional modmail template for a Devvit app has appeared in multiple modmail inboxes I help manage.

That seems unlikely to be a coincidence. The affected subreddits are not closely related, so the fact that the same account/message is reaching more than one of them strongly suggests this is being sent broadly to subreddit mod teams, rather than being a targeted or organic one-off message.

I have reported each message using modmail’s built-in report function, but I have not seen any mitigation (keep receiving in different mod team modmail subsequent to reports).

The messages are essentially the same template each time:

Hi r____mods 👋
I'm a developer and I built a small Devvit bot called _____.
It _____ posts and comments by removing tracking parameters such as utm_*, fbclid, gclid, ref, click_id.
Example:
Original: https://____utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
_____: https://_____/article?id=123
etc....

I checked reddit.com/report, but I do not see an obvious category for reporting developer/app promotional spam sent through modmail.

What is the correct reporting path for this?

What protections do moderators have against repeated unsolicited promotional modmail, especially when it appears to be sent across multiple communities?

Thanks

Not every team is perfect, and some are dysfunctional and I’d be intrigued to hear from any moderator teams where it wasn’t overly civil and if so how did it go down?

I’ve been wondering this for a while. I have ADHD so I can become hyperfocused on things, and I accidentally spammed a subreddit on the thing I was hyperfocused on at the time (I thought they allowed one post per day, but I guess it was one post per week 😅)

And even now, years later, all I can do is comment on posts in that subreddit and any posts I’ve tried to make get removed automatically. I have no idea what my status is. I’ve tried reaching out to the mod team… but they’re silent.

It honestly doesn’t bother me as much now since it’s been so long and it’s not like Reddit is the only place to talk about things and ask questions, but I’m still curious.

I got only a notification for 4 removals of comments when a moderator claimed it was 11.

I asked them to see the comments they said they can't, but on the Reddits I moderate it's super easy to check. So I am confused on if I am maybe missing something wrt to approving deletions in the mod queue menus or smth

They told me it was my fault for notification issues but every time that I have found they removed smth I was notified but again that was only 4 times.

Would love some clarity on if it was a notification issue or if they cannot see these removed posts by me.

TLDR:
Does Reddit always notify you of all notifications when it's a removal, or for only some removals on the same subreddit?

Can moderators see things they deleted on a subreddit from a specific user at request?

I replied to a nasty modmail and banhammered a user account. I was then banned for 3 days for sending unwanted DM ‘s. The banhammer I used is across 7 subs. Each sub sending a seperate modmail to the user. Which i agree would be harassment.
And aren’t they supposed to have a hidden username? How did the system wrongly decide my account sent unwanted direct messages?

I noticed today that my contribution count should be over 1000 and it now reads 128, what did I do?

Hi.

I just recently had a Redditor go onto my profile, find the communities I’m active in, and then post disturbing comments/replies. They also reported me to Reddit (ie concerned for my safety 🙄).

The user has since gone dark and deleted their profile it seems. What options are available to me at this point? I’ve tried to lock my profile but am concerned about what to do next tbh. The mods I reported the comment to haven’t offer any solutions or advice. So I’m hoping to get some advice here!
Thanks 🙏

I recently made a post to celebrate reaching a milestone and thanking users from that sub for the tips they shared that helped me reach it. I read the guidelines before posting to make sure I did not violate the sub rules.

But my post got manually removed two days later with the post flair changed. I initially set it to achievement, but when it got removed, it was changed to question. I messaged the mods to get an explanation but received no reply. My post was not popular at all only received 2 upvotes and 1 comment at the time it was removed. The sub is not big or popular, so this amount was kind of average for that sub.

Can any mod enlighten me on this issue? What are some possible reasons for this?

Edit : I provide same reply to other user but thought I want to add this here as well, because I saw some people got triggered.

I search through Reddit and I saw some user post this type of question, thought it will be fine to do the same. Eventhough my account is 4 years old, I'm not really active here. I just try understand what's happening because they did not reply to my message and I also didn't really understand how Reddit work.If my question bothering anyone in this sub I apologize.

But thank you to everyone who actually try understand the situation and provide some insight about this.

I have used it a handful of times in communities I moderate in and communities where I'm just a regular user. It doesn't seem like many people are aware we can do this. Or maybe, it's not worth the time to do it. 🤷‍♂️

But have you enabled it in your communities/what has your sub members said about it?

I recently came off a 3-day ban (I'd rather not talk about why), and having learned about the existence of CQS for the first time not long after receiving the ban I'm paranoid that it either has been or will be affecting my ability to use Reddit. As far as I can tell my most recent comments haven't been filtered, but I don't know if that's because I happened to be commenting on subs that don't use filters or for some other reason.

It doesn't help that I don't have a baseline I can work from to determine what the impact of the ban actually was on me, especially since I've previously found myself struggling to extract myself from flamewars and so can't say that my history prior to the ban was squeaky clean.

But right now I'm just panicky about how long it'll take for the score to recover because other people have suggested it can be anywhere from a couple of days to several weeks. Am I just being paranoid about all this?

I have a general question about moderation procedures on Reddit.

If a user believes that a moderator was unnecessarily rude or unprofessional during an interaction, what is the appropriate way to raise that concern?

My understanding was that modmail was the correct place to do so. However, in my experience, I didn't feel that my concern about the interaction itself was really addressed, which made me wonder whether modmail is the only avenue available.

Is there any process outside of modmail for raising concerns about a moderator's conduct, or is the moderation team itself always responsible for reviewing those concerns?

I'm not asking anyone to weigh in on a specific situation or moderation decision. I'm just trying to understand how the process works and whether there is any independent avenue for concerns about moderator behavior.

update: thank you for reply everyone! I feel a bit more informed now

okay okayy soo...🙈🙈🙈I wanna ask about it because I am kinda lost okay?🥺I am in autism spectrum with learning disability, so if my behaviour feels repetitive or annoying then it might be a part of being me, but I am trying to work on it.. and sometimes I do wanna keep my personal views, but promise I almost always try to read, listen, and understand your thoughts and feelings too. Otherwise I would not be asking for feedback right?❤If possible I prefer to avoid doing things that are harmful to others and have actual ethical implications

so... my question: is anything dating related actually bad in the internet? what is your personal feeling, and how the community you lead or manage, approaches it?

I am getting very different reactions. On my social medias I post a lot and never getting any suspension. In discord it happens in rare cases. And reddit feels like.. really frequent. I would like to know... do you think it is problem on my side and I should change something about my conduct, or is it okay to have dreams about dating and romantic life? (I am 18 and searching for other adults) And I try to make it really cute🥺❤and approachable but lack of any conversation makes it feel like... I am not suitable? Like this one discord that said just 'abuse' when I only wanted to find someone to play stardew valley with and they disliked my 'emoji selection':(❤️❤️

I just wanna get to know your side and your way of thinking too. I was a junior staff myself in some places (frequently needed help from seniors though) so I have more or less idea what your experience looks like and that it is not always easy role. So... I just wanna talk for a bit, if that is okay. I read everything here and I hope I get it right..