Normally I would suggest to just moderate it based off of “you know it when you see it”, but in this case it’s difficult since it’s very similar to legitimate posts.

Precisely the problem.

The community has been really good about down voting the more troublesome ones, but a clean solution to this really isn’t easy.

I’m hoping this can be where disclosures/tagging can really help, but this has a lot of roots in how the prior mod was handling things. Anything they didn’t like was a rule 3 removal, so appropriate rules I don’t think were made, and as a popular community…. Yeah.

I’m doing what I can starting with the most problematic that I can see (first the removals that didnt quite fit, now the promos in general, next ai/ai disclosures next, and then we’ll have to see.

Part of it too is that the community is not necessarily full of anti-ai folks (though there is one who has been following me around and downvoting), but against irresponsible ai use. I think a few posts have shown that (ai for translation, documentation, a snippet here and there that got reviewed and refined after by a human, etc).

I’m of the same mind that its some kind of SEO or maybe telemetry they want to sell, but I’m not sure.

That said, I’m all ears on options / discussions.