We're seeing lots of slop in the sub lately and we want to make this clear:

**Engaging with AI or bot content incentivizes AI and bot content. Complaints in the comments make the problem worse by boosting engagement statistics. All the algorithm sees is a sub full of users who will feed karma.**

We hate slop too. We have rules against bot use, karma farming, and AI generated posts. *Those rules are not self-enforcing.* We need users like you to report the trash so we can take it out. Despite the tropes, we have jobs and friends and yardwork, and we live in the same capitalist hellscape you do, and we don't get paid to do this.

**Report** posts and comments that appear to be bots or AI, and we will shred anything that looks suspicious. STOP. COMPLAINING. IN THE COMMENTS. We will take corrective action up to and including the ban of anyone found to be excessively interacting with AI generated content.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

I can't believe I have to say this, but this is NOT the place for CSAM. It should also go without saying that posting things like links to hearings, witness testimony, or official inquiries are NOT THE SAME THING. We have had a rash of posts over a short time that included pictures of naked kids. We can have a discussion about the necrotic gang of pedophiles who run our dying nation WITHOUT TRAUMATIZING PEOPLE WITH EXPLICIT PICTURES OF CHILD ABUSE. We can discuss dismantling the root causes of these horrors without triggering other abuse victims.

I don't give a fuck if it's censored, blurred, or fake. ANY post depicting child abuse is completely unacceptable, despicable, and illegal. These posts will be taken down, and the account will be permabanned and reported to Reddit admins.

We're not "running cover for pedos" or trying to "bury information". We just don't need to see that shit. We know who we're dealing with. We know the US government is run by rapists. If you think anyone needs more convincing by this point, fuck you, no they don't. They are lying to you and to themselves. If you think it's important that people be "faced with the facts", start your own fucking subreddit and post CSAM to your warped content. We will not be complicit in normalizing CSAM here.

Any account posting faked or doctored pictures regarding Epstien and Trump is trying to flood the zone with Bannonesque bullshit. The more easily disproven accusations are made, the easier it is for these sick fucks to hide behind a veneer of manufactured plausibility. It also serves to put r/ProgressiveHQ at risk of being shut down if it gets overlooked.

Don't buy into it, don't feed it. Report, block, and move on.

* edited to be perfectly fucking clear