[Reddit] The model maker u/rzvzn has been shadowbanned from the r/LocalLLaMA subreddit for over a month
- Relevant posts about open source AI, deleted by moderation (this one was cooking for a bit): https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1hwcn8b/kokoro_is_an_82mparam_tts_model_apache/
- Relevant comments (even on own posts) about open source AI, instantly shadowbanned
- Both of the above still occurring despite gaining a bit of karma recently
- Messages to moderators ignored
This is blue-on-blue friendly fire. 😔 And I've run out of ideas, hence the random HF post here. Why is it such a struggle to post on Reddit?
Pinning this for visibility. Note that you maybe shouldn't say the word shadowban to refer to this on Reddit, since editing the OP to mention that might've been what did it in (which I made the mistake of doing because my replies were, in fact, getting shadowbanned).
Closing this since I seem to have gotten a second post up (for now), and this time I'll avoid editing or replying to it: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1hwf4jm/second_take_kokoro82m_is_an_apache_tts_model/
Did you mention any other subreddits? Sometimes this can cause bans?
For example, I tried replying to this comment on Reddit 3 times before the 4th attempt went through:
Maybe you could link some of these projects from your model page. I'd be interested to see what they are.
Let's try this again, RIP my first 3 attempts. Here are four projects on Github, in the order they were made aware to me: remsky Kokoro-FastAPI; mateogon pdf-narrator; thewh1teagle kokoro-onnx; nhaouari local11labs.
- I didn't even try posting full links to those Github projects, I already started the first attempt with
author/repo-nameformat because I expected it to be banned. Also, I've already learned in the past that you cannot reference the concept of "getting banned" since that tends to get your message banned, so that wasn't an issue here. - Next I did
author SLASH repo-namewith the SLASH spelled out. No dice. - I removed the SLASH entirely, and just space-separated it like
author repo-name. - Finally, I rephrased
in the order they were posted on my Discord servertoin the order they were made aware to meand that did the trick. Maybe the lesson here is: don't post the word "Discord" on Reddit?
The broader takeaway is that I do not think I can speak freely on r/LocalLLaMA, so I've started treating it as a mostly read-only experience despite having an account, with writes being rare (and so far, very bad) experiences—spending 30 minutes trying to get 30 words on the internet is just not sustainable.
Ah. Maybe it was the mention of discord...