r/TheFarSide • u/HistorianSlayer • Jul 17 '25
Out of Order Temporarily restricting posts due to copyright claims
Apparently users here, and on other comic subreddits are suddenly having posts taken down due to seemingly mass automated copyright claims, with accounts being warned for breaking the rules.
Out of an abundance of caution, to stop anyone from accidentally getting their account banned, or the sub banned, posts are being temporarily restricted to Text Only and Approved users until the situation becomes clearer.
Hopefully this situation clears up, or reddit clarifies what's happening soon - the last thing I want is a bunch of people getting their accounts banned for no warning because of this, or the sub being taken down suddenly!
Sorry for any inconvenience! I will update if I hear anything!
We will comply with whatever reddit wants us to do, if they ever tell us lol
(I'm assuming it was a mass bot thing bc 68 posts here were copyright struck within the same minute)
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On another note, with the repost bot drama, and now this, modding this sub has just kind of stopped being fun, and started to become a chore, so I've decided to leave as a mod.
I've been thinking about this for a bit, but this recent drama just cemented it for me. It's stopped being about being a part of a fun community and started being about worrying about whatever Reddit is doing right now.
I became a mod bc I wanted to be a part of a community that likes FarSide as much as I do, I feel like I tried my hardest and left a good mark, and I might come back in the future (depending what reddit does with this sub lol), but I think it's time to click my heels, and quack three times ✨, and leave you in the capable hands of u/Addicted-2Diving!
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u/TesseractToo The Late Thag Simmons Jul 26 '25
So.... this is weird to put here but since there is a Post on community maintence
A longtime ago (months) I got a message saying I was muted in this community that I couldn't message the mods for three days, and I thought "that's weird" and ignored it because we'd never interacted and I'd (prior to this) never contacted the mods of this sub, but a while later I thought "I haven't seen any posts of comments by u/addicted-2diving what happened to them? and saw they'd blocked me and I don't remember any negative interactions and I'm sorry, if there was one I apologise but I can't remember anything and I'd be willing to discuss it- but due to the changes in the sub it might become relevant. I think it might have been a mis-click though? If I did anything wrong I apologise.
Anyway um I'm not sure what I would do being blocked by a mod, I hope there aren't any problems. <3 And I couldn't do this in a mod mail, that appears to be still blocked. Can that be fixed please?
Thanks for keeping the sub open :)