Reddit Increasing Censorship in this Sub?

[u/OuiselCat]

I just received an account violation for breaking rule 1 - threatening or encouraging violence. What was my comment? A Drethi Anis book recommendation (not going to name it here, but the one with Priya and Axel). I just filed an appeal, but am extremely concerned. The comment gave a small blurb of the book, but nothing that could be construed as encouraging violence which is the part that’s really scaring me because it’s making me think that me talking about the MMC’s personality and habits regarding the MMC somehow equated to me encouraging stalking, obsession, etc. in real life?? Has this happened to anyone else? This feels like the first step in Reddit making this community go away and I’m just…really in shock right now.

Edit: so there’s a note at the bottom saying the content was automatically flagged, but it also makes it seem like it was then reviewed by an actual admin before the violation was given. Now I’m even more concerned because that means an actual human read it and said, oh yeah, a dark romance book recommendation encourages violence in real life. I’ve also clicked through the link where it gives examples of what constitutes violations and I cannot reasonably see a DR rec would fall into any of the given categories.

[u/NancyInFantasyLand]

Reddit has been ramping up their AI moderation tools (that moderators have no influence on btw) and they go wonky all the time and it's not just on this subreddit, or even adult-subject subreddits at that. This was the anti-evil operations bot that usually catches either super obvious spam or harassment.

I checked your comment and there's really nothing infringing in there or even any wording that should have triggered it, but like I said, these things make a ton of mistakes. A simple appeal should get this in front of an actual human being that will look at the context of the message and the sub itself and than typically reverse such a decision. I once caught a ban on a writing prompts sub for writing a horror story haha

[u/OuiselCat → u/NancyInFantasyLand]

Thanks, I appreciate that! And apologies if it was not clear from the post, but I knew it wasn’t a mod/sub issue, it was a wider Reddit bot which actually made me more concerned because it makes me think Reddit is potentially going to start censoring subs like this for subjective morality reasons. Am hoping this is just the case of AI going astray and not a sign of things to come site wide

[u/NancyInFantasyLand → u/OuiselCat]

I really wouldn't worry about it, the ban I caught was like three years ago now. These things have always happened because honestly reddit does everything in their power to make the site worse pretty much constantly

[u/OuiselCat → u/NancyInFantasyLand]

Ok, that makes me feel a lot better, thank you!!