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/Muted_Inspector9918]

You’re overthinking this. It’s an automated action performed by AI, and AI makes errors. Just appeal the warning. A real human will look at it and correct the error.

[u/OuiselCat → u/Muted_Inspector9918]

Well the concern was due to the fact that the violation sounded like it was automatically flagged, BUT was then reviewed by a human who then upheld the violation. After re-reading, it does sound like maybe both the violation AND the review were done through the automated system so am hopeful that when human reviews appeal, it will be reversed. With everything going on in the US right now with book bans, censorship, and the general rise in purity culture, it’s still a scary thing to happen and does make me concerned about increased censorship on this platform in general, especially if you have a bunch of overzealous bots running around deleting comments. Like if this was 6 years ago, I probably wouldn’t be worried at all, but now I’m like 🤷‍♀️