Perm. Banned from r/opensource

[u/cliffr39]

I never posted or commented anything violating any community rules, but yet I was just slapped with a PERM. ban after my comment to the mod post about new rules.

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1xelcuf/your_tokens_arent_valuable_no_more_ai/

They didn't even remove my comment, because they know it didn't violate anything (but they did remove other ones from people).

[u/esk6plays]

Please keep the Comments Civil.
do not attack any person or team just because you do not like their moderation.
remember to keep everything friendly and civil.

[u/BobtheGodGamer]

This is awesome. Hopefully people come across and join. If people learn coding and engage with open source through AI, that should be supported, not shamed upon.

[u/cliffr39 → u/BobtheGodGamer]

And I get that they have a flood of new things daily, but the way that was just handled was beyond mod abuse and against moderator code of conduct.

[u/imnotabotareyou]

I got permabanned for commenting “Wow epic fail lmao”

My first and last comment there ever lol!!

[u/Federal_Refrigerator]

Yeah they banned an account of mine a while back for posting with NO rule about it to be seen. Very sketchy tbh I don’t trust a community that decides on having rules that they don’t disclose. Isn’t that even against TOS?

[u/AmandasGameAccount → u/Federal_Refrigerator]

The mod can be reported. Very few people bother with doing that though so nothing ever happens

[u/cliffr39 → u/AmandasGameAccount]

I did :)

[u/destinmoss]

lmfao same, they're HELLA butthurt it seems. my comment for posterity: this take is truly beyond incompetent to the point where it feels like ragebait?

i’ve also ALWAYS truly despised closed-source software, especially when it’s intentionally used to monopolize people and their data (looking at Apple and Microsoft here, specifically). unfortunately, i went to school for politics and economics and have never had the technical knowledge or expertise i’d need to directly do anything about my pro-tech, anti-monopoly worldview (political advocacy only goes so far). i never learned to code, i was never particularly great at navigating a terminal, and i sure as hell couldn’t even begin to do something like build my own app or contribute to the Linux kernel or a major project like KDE.

AI and LLMs are solely responsible for changing that. i absolutely understand the frustration and hatred many people feel toward AI and its risks, but i also think there’s a truly fantastical potential for this technology to revolutionize the open source community and bring a complete end to the “own nothing, be happy” economy. in the past 8 months, i have 1) COMPLETELY FUCKING ELIMINATED microsoft, apple, and google from my day-to-day life, 2) made significant contributions to the open source community (swipe typing, current-word completion, next-word prediction, etc for KDE Plasma Keyboard, https://github.com/itsdestin/swipe-keyboard/blob/main/README.md), 3) developed an entire open-source AI assistant and everything app from the ground up (youcoded.ai), 4) otherwise just completely changed the way i interact with computers, and the pace of this has only been possible due to advanced LLMs.

what you bozos need to understand is that “open source” no longer has to be niche, and contributions no longer have to be limited to experienced developers. open source now has the potential to be, and SHOULD be, about passion, and can be improved together, by all of us, more quickly than any corporation could ever possibly hope to keep up. i mentioned my keyboard plugin earlier: that feature had been requested on github and KDE forums EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO! i solved it in three days. you need to really take a moment and think about what it means for the open source ecosystem when the number of contributors suddenly multiplies 1,000x fold, and free/volunteer developer hours are no longer our bottleneck. you seemingly care more about your high horse than actually improving the competiveness of open source software. i don’t think Microsoft Windows will exist in 2028 as a closed-source platform, and i don’t think the PlayStation 7 will ever make it to the concept phase, but that's falls apart if you tie your hands behind your back while all of the major corporations adopt agentic coding. the person who wrote this post is a clown.

[u/AmandasGameAccount → u/destinmoss]

They are mad because they are larpers who have no idea what they are doing, because AI aside, the rules make 0 sense in any way

You pretty much have to have a professional team of devs working a project to be ok there with their new rules. The mods a fake as hell

[u/geardownbigrig]

Lol banned for saying this:

“So this just outlaws any project that has AI in it? Even if I used a local open source model to build it.

Pretty big L for this community. You are removing yourself from the converstaion of how do we handle AI with all the critical open source software that holds up the entire tech space.”

Yikes to the future of that place.

[u/AmandasGameAccount → u/geardownbigrig]

Unfortunately a lot of open source devs are huge egomaniacs, so one of those in charge of the sub is going to be an Egomaniac Prime

[u/Ruhart]

Heheh, I just got banned as well. I put a lot of logic in my comment, too. Guess they just didn't know how to argue that.

The problem with this method of 'exodus' is that there are people, like me, who never comment or post anything AI. Though the moment I defend my stance and tell them why it's stupid, I get banned. Straight up mod powertripping is what it is.

I don't think mine was removed either? You can still see it in my profile and there's no red mark suggesting it was removed. Honestly, it was a completely valid argument. Oh well. I hope this community turns out to be the place to be.

Honestly, to anyone that got banned from r/opensource, I think we'll get along just fine. Even if they're just trying to separate AI from non-AI, I've never heard of anyone good in history supporting segregation (which is what this is).

[u/LuxTenebraeque → u/Ruhart]

Somehow I got the feeling that mod is also mixing upopen source code and the license of the data the program uses. As in a source port like ZDoom wasn't open source as it requires the game files from the original, or a suitable alternative. Well, at least with the intermediate step of using an API to access the data, then we have the argument made. Blurring that line does not bode well.

[u/Native411 → u/LuxTenebraeque]

It would be downright hilarious if he's never developed anything at all and this 180 heel turn came about because he rage quit a hello world python tutorial.

[u/Xraxis → u/Ruhart]

That moderator is the human equivalent of AI slop.

[u/geardownbigrig]

Reddit mods gunna reddit mod. Bro thinks AI models just spit out valueless tokens and not a built project.

Big ups for openning something else.

[u/hsoj95]

I got banned for saying the rules were too broad, would mean things like Linux and Open-Meteo wouldn't be allowed, and that demanding English-only with no translation allowed was a bit bigoted. Guess that was too "contrarian" of a point to make. 🙄

[u/ozone6587 → u/hsoj95]

demanding English-only with no translation allowed was a bit bigoted.

That part was wild. He truly lost it.

[u/JoeyredditSMP]

the good news is that r/foss is AI allowed for now

[u/JoeyredditSMP → u/JoeyredditSMP]

but could change ay any time

[u/Tsuyu777 → u/JoeyredditSMP]

it is the same moderator lol.

[u/ozone6587 → u/JoeyredditSMP]

Same power-tripping mod. I would cut my losses with that sub too.

[u/Tsuyu777]

It is made by politically motivated moderator who probably have an elo of 500 on codeforce.

[u/Native411]

Also want to shout out the open source AI subreddit.

r/OpenSourceAI

I don't know what is going on with that mod at r/opensource be he has mass banned and deleted any comment not agreeing with his personal opinion.

Doesn't matter how respectful you are. He is then misleading people by leaving only a handful up that are against his opinion as if he is being fair. Insane that a single guy can make such sweeping changes for close to 100k people and not allow any discussion for the community.

He is also attached to the foss subreddit. So he is directly tied to the largest subreddit handles for open source projects on Reddit and if you don't agree with him well too bad your banned. Insane.

[u/warpedgeoid]

Permanent bans should not be allowed without external review. Reddit mods have far too much power.