Mods Need Input: Dealing with AI Spam in This Sub

Hey everyone, your mod team here wanting to get some feedback on something that's been bugging us for a while now

We've all noticed the uptick in AI-generated posts flooding the sub and yeah, it's getting pretty annoying. Our team is split on how to handle this mess - some of us think AI might have its place while others want to nuke it from orbit

We've been going back and forth on this for like 6 months now and can't seem to land on a solid approach that works for everyone

Look, we want to keep this place focused on actual Rust discussion and learning, but we also don't want to accidentally ban someone's legitimate question just because it might look AI-generated. Plus we're all doing this in our spare time and don't have bandwidth to review every single post manually

Right now we're just winging it case by case. You probably don't see most of our work since we've been quietly nuking the obvious spam posts, but trust me we're dealing with way more of this stuff than you realize

Here's the thing though - we're not sitting here refreshing /new all day long. We browse this sub just like you do, we all have day jobs and other stuff going on. Nobody's paying us to babysit Reddit 24/7

So what do you think? How should we tackle this without making life harder for genuine newcomers or burning ourselves out in the process

Drop your thoughts below or hit us up in modmail if you want to chat about it privately