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Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure Discussion & Question Moderation Big tech (www.theregister.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/72942555

Meanwhile on reddit.

Honestly kind of sounds like lemmy.world mods tho...

edit ahaha lemmy.world's fediverse community locked discussion about this, of course they did..

To get a project featured on the subreddit, developers now need to show it has been actively maintained for at least a year, has an established community, and has at least three contributors, give or take. Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers aren't welcome either, and developers can no longer use the subreddit to find people willing to help maintain their software.

That creates a chicken-and-egg problem for independent developers, who apparently need an established community before they can use an open source forum to find one. Even projects with no AI involvement could fall foul of the rules. One Reddit user pointed out that their nine-year-old project, which has more than 300 GitHub stars and dozens of resolved issues, would no longer qualify because they're its sole contributor.

The moderator also imposed a minimum Reddit account age of one year and requires significant prior contributions. Anyone who attempts to post and then contacts the moderators seeking an exception risks being permanently banned and muted.

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[โ€“] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

I am not sure that coming off as pretentious by presenting your ideas as "nuance" and deriding everyone else's views as "reactionary" and saying it "doesn't matter what they think" is the avenue for civilized discussion that you might have assumed it was.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Pretentiousness wasn't the intent. I chose reactionary because it was the most neutral way to describe the phenomenon. If you have problems with the word choice. What word would you use to describe it?

    Keep in mind. I'm as about as skeptical of this so-called AI as anyone else. Even though I have self-hosted them at home. I don't generally run them. Because they are largely useless to me.

    Still though, we see people having for lack of better words. Very strong, lower knowledge reactions to the discussion. If you feel that's pretentious, then honestly what terms would you suggest for those well beyond healthy skepticism?

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