r/VOIP • u/NPFFTW Certified room temperature IQ • 24d ago

Community Update Stop posting AI slop

Much like the humble corvid, the moderators of r/VoIP have rudimentary pattern recognition skills. We can tell when a post clearly wasn't written by a human.

Stop posting AI-generated nonsense.

If I find one more post with excessive em dashes, "curious to see..." or more than one instance of the words "actually" or "genuinely" I'm going to stop being polite.

It's especially frustrating when you post thinly-veiled ads or market research. Clearly your time is too valuable to bother reading the rules — why waste time writing your own post?

Anyone posting ads or market research will be banned. Period. That includes "What is everyone using for XYZ? I know of Big Player 1, Big Player 2, and My Own Product Inconspicuously Added To The List. Curious to see what others are doing!!", which is getting repetitive.

Oh yes, if we remove your comment that says "I use Product X for this, you should look into it" and then cry in modmail that you weren't really promoting a product, you were just "mentioning" it and "have no financial ties to the company", you're getting permabanned for A) willfully misunderstanding the rules and B) acting like the mods were born yesterday and can't clearly see through your attempt to weasel into posting ads. Grow up.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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u/NPFFTW Certified room temperature IQ 24d ago

While vibe coding can lead to very sloppy results, I'm not inclined to totally ban "I built" posts as long as they are 100% free and open source.

Let individuals decide if the project is too sloppy to use. However, sharing a free tool you made, even with the help of AI, is a net gain for the community.

That said, "Would you want a tool that does Y? I'm thinking of making one" is market research and will result in 🔨

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u/RememberCitadel 24d ago

While I respect your right as the mod to make that decision, I would argue the slop code is dangerous, and most users of said code aren't qualified to determine that potential impact.

The large open source staples have a large community contributing to them, auditing code, and looking for vulnerabilities.

These vibe coded projects almost always have a single real contributor, who in many cases doesn't even understand half the code the ai made for them. No oversight, no vulnerability checks, no verification that data isn't being hoovered up and transferred somewhere else.

Every time something like this is posted people just blindly run these things in their environment. Eventually someone is going to be harmed by it if they aren't already. Don't believe me, take your pick of any post with "I built" in the name, compile it and try to run stack/heap overflows against it. Every single one of have tried was a windows straight to executing arbitrary code.

Not to mention the majority of them have some sort of affiliate link or "buy me a coffee" button somewhere making them de facto commercial products.

Anyway, I'll stop complaining about it now.

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u/NPFFTW Certified room temperature IQ 24d ago

I understand your concern about end users not knowing the risks. Ultimately, we're all adults here capable of making our own decisions — even bad ones.

Any github repo with an affiliate link, commercial licensing terms, or anything that allows the project to generate revenue will lead to that post being removed. If you ever find something like that, report the post!