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This is at the same time hilarious and puzzling. I mean, Meta has urged users to use their real name for years and Neil does just that and gets apparently shut down now because he not only acts as himself but is named as himself on top of that!!1!
Meta and reddit are going down the same path, making a safe so space for bots and AI sloppers that no real humans will be left.
I also guess that no human being has been involved in suspending the account, just common-sense-lacking AIs doing automated tasks and classifying people as imposters of themselves. Might be the beginning of some really Kafka-level stuff for Neal trying to set that right again, depending on the mood of the complaint-processing AIs... :-)
Exactly this. Reddit has some new (as of this year) metric about "post quality," called the Contributor Quality Score where you have to post a lot to keep it up. Low scores mean you are not a quality redditor worthy of having comments seen. So I'm soft-banned from many subs simply by virtue of not being in Reddit and makikg content for them enough. My favorite is /r/privacy, which now essentially discourages anyone guarding their privacy from participating.
Meanwhile, the AI slop bots have no problems with this metric. Me, as a real human? Pushed out. Fine, happy to oblige.