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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Well…the problem is reddit’s size.

They've never been shy about targeting certain subs and communities for shutdown when it suits their commercial interests. This has nothing to do with size and everything to do with the nature of the content itself.

These videos are pure clickbait. They feed engagement. They build up lots of enthusiasm both among content providers and active users. And, as a consequence, they make the company money.

But reddit bots flagged me of being abusive to other users.

Bots will flag any post purely based on keyword searches and AI parsing of sentiment. Its got nothing to do with your actual statement. But it also depends heavily on who you are, where you post, and how often other users flag you. Very possibly you simply got "Report" flagged a bunch of times by other users for some reason and that - plus a naive parsing - was all the AI bot needed to know.

But I'll also bet the post wasn't getting thousands of unique interactions and external visits. If you'd been a power-poster who was posting a face-cam rant rather than a text blob, I suspect you'd have been fine.

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