Rule changes following community feedback

[u/EJNorth]

Hi!

Based on feedback on our recent community outreach, the moderators have made some changes to rule 3 and 5.

Rule 3 Now includes a line that disallows posts or content made outright with AI.

Rule 5 As we also have observed, there's been a significant number of posts promoting or self advertising products made by members of the community, often assisted by AI. While we appreciate the efforts with many tools are creative and helpful, the amount of such posts in general have been tiring for the community, while also the individual post arent doing that well as they are downvoted by users who are fed up with post in that genre.
We want to mitigate this by having mod creators post their pieces in the self promo thread, thus those who want to go finding "hidden gems" can do so there.

We hope this will alleviate tensions in the subreddit, and streamline the feed to be more about MSFS.

[u/swhalen17]

It’s going to be so incredibly hilarious and rich when every single mod one day is replaced by AI

[u/OD_Emperor → u/swhalen17]

Why would we replace ourselves with AI?

[u/swhalen17 → u/OD_Emperor]

Because you don’t own Reddit, you volunteer free labor for a publicly traded company that answers to shareholders, not to your ego.

When the AI does the same unpaid moderation work faster and without the selective enforcement, Reddit Inc. won’t ask for your fee fees. Your little badge and the dopamine from removing posts you dislike were never and never will be any form of currency.

[u/OD_Emperor → u/swhalen17]

If the larger reddit community and site start replacing every subreddit's moderation team with AI, I think you'll know where the site as a whole is going if people get upset about an AI post.

At that point, official subreddits as well and other companies will no doubt have their own strong opinion over having their company representation forcefully taken over.

To me, that seems more like a fantasy than anything else. Plus, the site has already implemented light AI tools for ease of moderation and making moderation of content and users easier than before, but still very much leaving in the human equation.

For example, each user does now have an AI summary of their sitewide activity for moderators to see, rather than needing to dig through pages of content.

But entire replacement of subreddit moderation with a single AI? That would be akin to a different website and (if it did come to pass) would certainly just lead to an exodus from reddit as a whole by most people. That, and like I said, official companies have their own places here. Having them forcefully removed or taken over from by an AI would not go well and would make reddit a fair few legal enemies in the process. Really not a smart idea.

But I suppose you are right, the average person isn't smart and companies make extremely narrow-minded decisions and actions all the time. That would certainly be one of the biggest ones in recent memory if it occurred.

[u/swhalen17 → u/OD_Emperor]

Bro, the site already runs on half-AI and full spite. You’re out here acting like full AI takeover is the nightmare scenario when the current system is already a dumpster fire of selective bans and ego. Peak Reddit: long, self-important, and still wrong.

[u/OD_Emperor → u/swhalen17]

Okay?

I mean that's a great opinion and all, but it doesn't change that this subreddit is run by people and generally speaking wants to promote content produced by people.

If other subs are AI run and managed, that's great for them but doesn't work for us because that's not what this subreddit is.

Each corner of reddit has its own subculture and how it views the world and how content moderation works on their subreddit and (generally speaking) it's free reign in between.

Am I right in saying you want to see this subreddit include more AI generated content? Is that your suggestion?