[ThalesX]

Recently, I got banned from Reddit for sharing my local news summarization website (www.cafelutza.ro) - for the Romanian market. So I figured you know what, I've been trying to bring this product to Reddit in the hopes of having better discourse around the news, but instead I realized, I was looking for smart discourse around a subject, which I haven't been able to find on Reddit or elsewhere, so I created Exppit (https://www.exppit.com) that basically gets experts to debate your topic of choice.

I'll admit it's terrifying to share this here because I don't know how to keep costs under control. For now only myself and my friends have used it.

Also trying to make a podcast out of it, which I enjoy listening to while I do some road trips: https://open.spotify.com/show/1fFwWMWJBJYIZmyz9cnrKB

[stephenr]

> that basically gets experts to debate your topic of choice.

The word basically is doing a fucking lot of heavy lifting in that sentence given that it's essentially asking spicy autocomplete to pretend it's multiple (possibly dead) people from $field to discuss the topic amongst themselves.

[ThalesX]

I mean... I'm pretty sure anyone that gives the front page a read can tell that it's spicy autocomplete. The alternative of having Aristotle chiming in to one's shower thought would be harder to explain.

[riku_iki]

> Recently, I got banned from Reddit for sharing my local news summarization website (www.cafelutza.ro)

how exactly this happened? What did you do?

[ThalesX]

Well. I created an account called 'cfltz' and started posting summarization of news items that were discussed on the subreddit. I really have an ideological 'war' with how news is presented and I felt like it was really a good product for expanding the discourse.

Then after I got enough Karma, I think 500, after two months (I didn't really post religiously, just things that had my interest) I posted a link to the actual website instead of just a summarization. Within 60 seconds I got banned from the subreddit. I contacted the mods and asked what's up and they told me self-promotion is not allowed. So that was that. I accepted the resolution, deleted the account and got back to my main, which was also banned for one week for 'circumventing bans'.

Honestly... it's probably for the best. I haven't really used the website since then because I realized I was engaging with (surprisingly for someone building AI slop) low level slop.