It's been about a year since I last wrote to you. At the time, I was feeling overwhelmed with the amount of spam posts being submitted to the subreddit: Unfortunately, recent weeks have seen a significant increase of post submissions that break the subreddit rules in clear and obvious ways. We're at the point where more than 90% of the post submissions violate the rules. Things have gotten worse, not better. The percentage of rules-breaking posts has remained the same, but many posts are either less obvious or take more time to deal with. This is likely a confluence of: People asking AI how they can validate the product idea they came up with AI. AI suggests that they post on Reddit but fails to notice that market research isn't allowed on most subreddits (including this one). People using AI to generate comments in order to get more karma and/or visits to their profile page where they are advertising something. Reddit actively encouraging people to post things that clearly break the rules (e.g.…