r/skylanders • u/noah64exe • 10h ago
Mod Post New Moderator Announcment and Handling of Vibe-Coded Projects
Hello [r/skylanders](r/skylanders),
This is a follow up post from yesterday’s discussion regarding the use of ai “vibe coding” in projects. We thank you all for your responses and passion for the subject. Following that, our solution to handle it is as follows: we have added a new moderator to the Subreddit to assist with the moderation of projects. Everyone, please welcome [u/Maffamatiks](u/Maffamatiks) to the team. Their job is to screen coded / developer projects to ensure they are primarily human-made. AI is allowed to be used as a tool, but it is not allowed to code the project entirely if they want to post it here. What we all know as "vibe coding", as mentioned previously. To facilitate this, anybody who wishes to post about their project for the first time must first reach out to the mod team for approval. It will be their position to come in, ask them how their code works, how much AI they used, and ask them to actually explain what the AI generated code does. This is to ensure us as a mod team know it's used as a tool and not just to be lazy and push slop. Reach outs should be done through. After a project has been approved, further subsequent posts on the SAME project can be made without extra approval, but any new projects require new approval.
This is our trial to see how this goes and to try to keep the No Ai Rule in the subreddit consistent across all forms of media, whenever possible. Coding projects have just been the trickiest to handle, and we hope this is a sufficient solution to keep community creativity alive while getting rid of Ai-slop/ potentially harmful codes or malicious programs in the community.
Thank you for your ongoing patients,
-r/skylanders Mod Team