r/technology • u/marketrent • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent — even in a Nintendo context

https://www.theverge.com/news/626139/reddit-luigi-mangione-automod-tool
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u/bizarro_kvothe 29d ago

I get that you’re being cynical but there are good communities still here among the slop. /r/fountainpens for example.

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u/Pianopatte 29d ago

Thats nice. Guess its because the member count is still on the lower side.

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u/bizarro_kvothe 29d ago

I think once you hit 1-2M members quality goes down and people trying to exploit the subreddit for profit discover it.

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u/CursedIbis 29d ago

In my experience the first big dip in quality can happen at a fraction of that, maybe 50-100k users