SO as most people here have experienced, Reddits “strike” system is as both un nuanced as it is completely unhinged. It’s AI is trash, coded by the advertizer partners for complete sanitation of thought, then is unevenly applied across the site. (it would be better to be completely un moderated vs, THAT IMHO)

This is why a YouTube comment restriction is MUCH more fair: It doesn’t ban you, it BLOCKS you. Instead of whacking you with a Ban hammer it acts like a bouncer. It says, “hey this comment is a bit questionable, I’m not accepting that.” This is a better way to go about it because as long as there’s no penalty for edit spamming, it allows you to go through the comment and try to figure out if there’s “a better way to say something” or at the very least sus out what the AI seems to think is the issue with it.

And again, to be clear, the AI on YouTube is not much better, often being even MORE strict, but at least you can WORK with it.

If Reddit used that system, I’m sure half of us wouldn’t be here right now.

(context: I was replying to a Minecraft youtuber who is very community driven (which is awesome to engage with, BTW, love to see it) and part of my comment was describing the pros and cons of using TNT blocks for mining a particular resource. Take a wild guess what the AI thought I was trying to do. FFS FML -__-’ Good news is that after some finagling and getting loosey goosey with the reply/double posting feature, I got the comment posted mostly unchanged. STILL, THOUGH.)