If I recall correctly, there was a reply posted here about 3 hours ago that was completely deleted rather than just hidden. When I checked it earlier, the content seemed completely normal—it was just discussing how content moderation should be adjusted.
Given that the post seemed harmless, could someone explain why it was completely removed?
The reason I deleted that reply is that it was written by a brand new account, with a trust level score of 0, whose only responses on the forum appeared to be generated by AI, during an ongoing spamming campaign where we are being heavily spammed by brand new accounts following similar tactics. It was a judgement call on my part.
I’ve included screenshots of all four removed posts in my reply above so everyone can see their content and why they were removed. They are part of a broader spamming campaign that has been ongoing over the past several days.
As for the broader questions, I’m a moderator, so I work within the rules we have. Changes to things like whether removed posts should be visible would be up to the forum admins.
I would like to expand the question to a more broad angle.
I enter in this forum not very often, and to be honest 99.9% of the time there are new post completely written by agents, including some texts with heavy political, economical and technical significance ( affecting the destiny of chain, actually).
When I just find a post written by AI, i just stop reading it ( IA;DR motto). It is very sad that a community aligned with digital sovereignty and cypherpunk values have diluted ( and tamed ) their own personal tone and voice, for the shake of “perfection and optimal structure”.
When I enter a forum, my intention is to discuss with other humans - with their imperfections, instead of with “complex autocomplete algorithms which score the most probable word one after the other”. Maybe is a trend in the net, but it is a great irony to see it here.
IMO we should just make these posts collapsed and tagged as “problematic content” or whatever it is called. And then everybody can be ensured that they are not getting censored.
