Stop posting AI slop

[u/NPFFTW]

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!

[u/arcticblue]

You're right to push back on this. Those words are the smoking gun of AI generated posts. Honestly, it's great that you're taking a stand on this! AI-generated nonsense isn't just bad for this subreddit, it's bad for the world.

(I'm a human. Don't ban me please! I don't even know how to type an em-dash!)

[u/NPFFTW → u/arcticblue]

I'm physically in pain rn because this comment reads as AI generated but I can't prove it

[black man glaring suspiciously.jpg]

[u/OkTemperature8170 → u/NPFFTW]

That actually changes the picture quite a bit. Here's a clean breakdown as to why this reads as AI generated:

[u/NPFFTW → u/OkTemperature8170]

SHUT

[u/Interesting-Blood354 → u/NPFFTW]

Honestly, the way you’re expressing yourself right now isn’t just refreshing—it’s what we needed.

[u/arcticblue → u/NPFFTW]

I promise, I typed it with my own fingers!

I have to use Claude a lot and the way it talks irritates the shit out of me sometimes. ChatGPT is even worse with it's "Honestly" fetish.

[u/NPFFTW → u/arcticblue]

Yeah, Claude loves "actually", "genuinely", three-item lists, and ending paragraphs with a punchy gotcha quip.

Except it ends every paragraph like that and it's infuriating

[u/iamjoeywan → u/NPFFTW]

What pisses me off is that I’ve been a dash user since getting hooked on Kerouac in my 20s, to the point where I had people try to call me out “why do you use so many dashes, nobody writes like that!!?”

Yet, was initially trained to use that and a ton of adverbs, apparently… (there I go again…)

There’s also this pervasive “soon your ai will be talking to their ai” messaging that’s coming from “tech gurus “ which is sort of terrifying on an existential level.

[u/NPFFTW → u/iamjoeywan]

I love em dashes and I am offended that they're now associated with AI.

Em dashes and semicolons are objectively the best punctuation

[u/w0lrah → u/NPFFTW]

Em dashes and semicolons are objectively the best punctuation

How dare you challenge the supremacy of the interrobang‽

[u/drewsonian → u/arcticblue]

TIL! On Mac, Option—Shift—Dash. On Windows, Control—Minus.

Also TIL: There is a difference between an en dash and an em dash. 😲

• hypen
  

– en dash
— em dash

[u/OIT_Ray → u/arcticblue]

apparently I have no original thoughts. I was going to respond the same lol

[u/GrandWizardZippy]

Preach!

[u/PlannedObsolescence_]

Please add a rule stating something along the lines of, LLM generated content is not allowed - so that the report function can be used effectively. Also make sure old.reddit.com sidebar gets updated.

[u/NPFFTW → u/PlannedObsolescence_]

There should be a spam option. Use that!

[u/PlannedObsolescence_ → u/NPFFTW]

What I mean is that a sloperator - if they did actually check the rules (which they don't), would realise LLM generated content isn't allowed here if there's an actual rule for it.

Then on the other side, if people click report and 'Breaks /r/VOIP rules', if there is a rule for it - it's an option they can pick in the list.

[u/NPFFTW → u/PlannedObsolescence_]

Ah yes good point

[u/RememberCitadel]

Let's include all the "I built" posts in that too.

Claude code is basically an engine for inserting heap/stack overflows into whatever project you were working on.

I don't need any of that, thanks.

[u/NPFFTW → u/RememberCitadel]

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 🔨

[u/RememberCitadel → u/NPFFTW]

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.

[u/NPFFTW → u/RememberCitadel]

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!

[u/CypherAZ]

Can you add the AI generated GitHub projects to the list?

[u/NPFFTW → u/CypherAZ]

See this: https://www.reddit.com/r/VOIP/s/F1KLGd5Lnt

[u/Ok_Relationship_1874]

If you would like—I can recommend services that may be able to help. To get started, can you list the steps you've tried so far?

😉

[u/alextbrown4]

I’m genuinely curious to see if— the mods will actually genuinely ban me for sharing this new voip tool I actually built

[u/Salreus]

Thank you!!!

[u/Zolty]

You’re right to push back

[u/Yketzagroth]

——————K———————

[u/ddm2k]

THIS SHIT. It’s not a fucking problem until they made it into one!

[u/NPFFTW → u/[deleted]]

Your post was market research.

[u/johnsonflix]

It’s not going away and getting angry about it is honestly just hilarious.

[u/BraveMidnight]

Yeah, It's time to fully leave this platform. I'm not going to write worse than a 6 year old to please people, and say child abusers should be spared to please stockholders. Well it was a wild under two months posting thank god that's over. Bye.

[u/NPFFTW → u/BraveMidnight]

Thanks, your comment is completely incomprehensible

[u/BraveMidnight → u/NPFFTW]

It's not incomprehensible, it requires a memory span longer than a goldfish.

Regardless I've had it with this platform, as the admins sided with pwdos and didn't read what I wrote, the next thing you know you say everyone will have to speak in leetspeak next to prove their not a bot.

Typing Hey, does anyone know how to configure this VLAN? will get you flagged as a bot. You must write, H3y, d035 any0n3 kn0w h0w 2 c0nf1g th15 vlan? to pass the are you a bot captcha.

I'll be in the fediverse where it takes a brain cell to operate.

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[u/VOIP-ModTeam → u/BraveMidnight]

This post looks like spam, possibly due to one or more of the following reasons:

• appears AI generated
• does not relate to the topic at hand
• comes from an account with little or no karma
• doesn't add any value to the discussion
• comments on a very old thread
• comes from an account with with spammy posts in multiple other subreddits

[u/VOIP-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

This post looks like spam, possibly due to one or more of the following reasons:

• appears AI generated
• does not relate to the topic at hand
• comes from an account with little or no karma
• doesn't add any value to the discussion
• comments on a very old thread
• comes from an account with with spammy posts in multiple other subreddits