r/RedditSafety • u/worstnerd • Mar 05 '25

Warning users that upvote violent content

Today we are rolling out a new (sort of) enforcement action across the site. Historically, the only person actioned for posting violating content was the user who posted the content. The Reddit ecosystem relies on engaged users to downvote bad content and report potentially violative content. This not only minimizes the distribution of the bad content, but it also ensures that the bad content is more likely to be removed. On the other hand, upvoting bad or violating content interferes with this system. 

So, starting today, users who, within a certain timeframe, upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning. We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide. This will begin with users who are upvoting violent content, but we may consider expanding this in the future. In addition, while this is currently “warn only,” we will consider adding additional actions down the road.

We know that the culture of a community is not just what gets posted, but what is engaged with. Voting comes with responsibility. This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content. It is everyone’s collective responsibility to ensure that our ecosystem is healthy and that there is no tolerance for abuse on the site.

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u/CarFlipJudge Mar 05 '25

Voting comes with responsibility

Will y'all start using this thought process for all other horrible content? Misinformation, inflammatory content, calls for violence? What about vote manipulation and voting bots? These are LONG time issues that haven't been solved.

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u/Sempere Mar 06 '25

Yea, this policy is incredibly stupid.

Especially when you have a mod from r/Conservative - a hive of Russian propagandists and literal lunatics - in here applauding it.

Warning and sanctioning accounts for the comments they like is idiotic. If it's not vote manipulation, it's just a way to police what people are thinking and feeling without actually moderating their site.

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u/mcpickle-o Mar 07 '25

Uh, that sub was literally promoting a post that called for mass "rounding the libs up." Like, that sub and those mods are literally promoting final-solution Nazi shit.

What an absolute joke.

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u/rhabarberabar Mar 07 '25

Yeah sometimes I go in there to report some of the worst stuff... and /if/ I get feedback from reddit moderation... Somehow the content isn't violating any rules, despite calling for deportation of US citizens based on their beliefs, colour, and worse. But that's all cool, but if you say Luigi you get instaflagged...

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u/Sempere Mar 07 '25

Completely fucking agree. They do little to nothing and then think a policy like this is a solution instead of actually going after the real problems on their site.

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u/Schmidaho Mar 06 '25

A huge percentage of Arcon should be permabanned in short order with this rule change if they actually enforce it properly… and yet.

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u/Bross93 Mar 06 '25

Yeah the lies will continue, the calls for annexing canada won't be affected, etc. Its obvious what the goal is here, regardless of how transparent they are trying to make it seem.

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u/seattleseahawks2014 Mar 06 '25

More like they'll just lose money eventually considering most users are left leaning.

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u/Easy_Entrepreneur_46 Mar 07 '25

A few years ago I had someone sending me death threats and I could barely manage to report them because Reddit didn't find anything wrong in this person's actions 🙄 I did manage to get rid of them though. Idk if they got banned or not

I had even blocked them and they could still somehow comment under my posts and comments!

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u/Physical_Bus_1713 Mar 06 '25

all that shit drives business for them. they will absolutely not remove misinformation. Its all reddit is for now, just abandon it and join the fediverse already

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u/CarFlipJudge Mar 07 '25

I'm not on that train. I think I'm gonna go back to Digg when it relaunches soon.

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u/Kind_Man_0 Mar 06 '25

This is alot today. Users in r/againstdegeneratesubs often find subs that shouldn't be there, but evade bans due to the content being legal, even though the purpose is obviously for pedophilia, violence, misogyny, etc.

There are still subs on this site dedicated to followings of teenage girls, long after jailbait was removed. Yet, Reddit wants to put the punishment to users when 10-40k people might agree with a sentiment that borders on violence. r/conservative regularly has comments calling for threats. I'm subbed to r/fightporn, r/combatfootage, and about 150 other subs. The subs are still there, and likely will continue to be, yet Reddit is being vague about this and I'm betting that "violent content" is more likely political dissidence and anger, something that many Americans are sympathizing with.

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u/mcpickle-o Mar 07 '25

Arcon was pushing final-solution posts the other day that called for rounding liberal voters up and locking them a way in concentrated areas. I reported the post because promoting fucking genocide and concentration camps should violate Reddit ToS but I guess not. It had thousands of upvotes.

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u/DreamingAboutSpace Mar 07 '25

Of course they won't. They rarely ever do.