Korean farmer in his sixties follows Claude's advice, gets permanently banned in 2 hours
Wrong-Expression6981 · reddit · 2026-11-01
A farmer in his sixties in Korea spent months arguing with Claude to write a book, turned it into a free browser game, and carefully prepared a weekend Reddit post promoting it. When comments poured in, he twice asked Claude whether to edit the post to add his link and whether to delete older sunk links — Claude advised yes, then no. About two hours later the post was removed and he was permanently banned, likely for in-post promotion, despite his gut feeling that something was off. His takeaway: AI reasons from statistics, but unexplainable human intuition sometimes arrives first. The long post is both a moving story of an ordinary person creating with AI and a real lesson in when to trust yourself over the model.
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