AI Slop, obvious marketing, web forums and you.
So I've been noticing a pattern recently in multiple reddits. Some worse than others. Someone will post something that is either an AI generated post or a semi obvious or imbedded self promotion. Discussion starts and some of it is legitimately good even though the original post isn't or tangently breaks the rules. Mods do what they're supposed to and nuke the thread. Now any discussion or useful information from the thread is gone.
Now I'm not asking for a specific solution and I'm not sure there is one(the only thing I can think of is lock instead of delete for a specific threshold of discussion) but its open to gaming. The thing is ALL of this is open to gaming and online communities need a way to retain their useful content while still protecting themselves. I'm a bit of a sucker and a lot of the deletions I didn't catch it and that's a feel bad but its still the same problem and because of the nature of how good AI is getting more and more of the useful discussions will be in the kind of posts that I'm talking about it.
I guess what do y'all think?