u/Matthew789_17

There have been some suspicious new accounts less than 1 month old posting art. They sourced the art appropriately but flaired it wrong as Media instead of Non-OC Art so I just fixed it for them and left the posts up I have taken said posts down after realizing they seem to be linked to each other and copying each other’s title formats and some posts exactly.

However, these rather new accounts also post a lot of other art in other subreddits within a short duration which makes it look like they are trying to farm karma on a new account to potentially sell it later. They don't seem like bots either, so those botbouncer Reddit bots won't be able to get them. Just a new account trying to get karma. Subreddits like ours are a gold mine for karma farming accounts due to any nice art with relevance to the character being upvoted.

I'm thinking about adding an automod filter rule that removes posts from accounts less than a month old and have less than 10 community karma.

Additionally, I'm planning to hold posts with the Media flair for review due to the common misuse of that flair.

I want to see if you guys have any suggestions before I go forward with implementing this.

Edit: It has been done

You guys have spoken, and I'm proud to announce not a single comment in general support of AI content in my earlier post.

Fortunately this sub didn't really have an AI slop problem to begin with.

Anyone caught intentionally passing off AI slop as real art to farm karma will be banned. This has been added to the rules and can be found in the report options when reporting a post. And yes, your reports will actually be looked at now, I'll try to aim for a reponse time of within 24 hours. Same applies to modmail.

Otherwise, nothing much to change in this sub, except actually moderating it. Nice chill sub with low traffic and the occasional quality posts. One of the other mods seems to have returned so we should be alright in terms of moderation for now.

So I was able to finally get a user banned from my subreddit for breaking sub rules + scamming but the sub has been unmoderated for a while. I only recently got mod perms for the sub.

Can an admin help me outright ban them from the platform? Will doing that automatically remove all their posts and comments? Or will I need to individually go to each of their comments and remove it? Forgive me if this is a dumb question but I am new to moderating

This sub is now under new management as the other moderators are inactive or have no interest in moderating.

A big thank you to u/mr_swedishfish and their friend u/mahiru for helping out in getting me added to the mod team. Hopefully I'll be able to improve this sub moving forward. Still in a transitioning period as there are some things I can’t do yet in this sub due to the inactive top mod but hopefully I can get some stuff done soon.

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On a side note, what's everyone's thoughts on banning AI art slop in this sub?

Edit: It has been done.

There’s scammers still trying to sell that KFC collab stuff (such as Far_Draw_6847 ), art reposting bots, people who post without sauce. Feels like nothing is enforced here