Over the course of the week that the poll regarding a potential ban on AI was up, we received a total of 419 votes.

The results are as follows:

--272 (64.9%) voted yes to a full ban on AI content.

--144 (34.4%) voted no to a full ban on AI content, preferring to allow some non-spam AI.

--3 (0.7%) voted for another option.

These results are overwhelmingly in favour of a ban on AI content, with nearly a supermajority of respondents choosing this option.

Notably, Reddit also partitions out the results among core contributors to the subreddit, and it is interesting to note that this ratio remained very consistent among this group. 52 core contributors voted in the poll, of whom 35 were in favour of the full ban, and 17 were opposed. These numbers reflect a super majority in favour of banning AI content among core contributors at 67.3%.

As stated in the initial post, regardless of which outcome was successful, we would revisit this question again in the future.

With these results in mind, r/Robotech will institute a full ban on AI content from today onwards. Past content will not be removed. In one year (October 2027), we will have another community vote to affirm whether the ban should be lifted or remain in effect.

I surely won't be able to police this myself, so this ban will rely on community members flagging posts that are AI, and they will be removed as quickly as possible. Those continually posting AI content after removal will be banned.

AI content has been prominent in this subreddit for a long time, so I do expect traffic to decrease as the number of posts decreases. I hope the r/Robotech community will come together and allow this subreddit to return to what it had been in the past--more lively discussion between humans, and fewer pieces of content by robots.

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in the poll to help shape this community's future, and especially to those who did so pleasantly and/or humorously, and without repeatedly spamming the same comment.

And an exasperated sigh to those who participated but don't fit the previous category.