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/Whompa02 29d ago

Why is Reddit stepping at all? It’s been a rare half decent social media site for a while now they shouldn’t be changing policy on speech like this.

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u/explodedsun 29d ago

They did this with the Chapo sub shortly before they took it down. Users that had upvoted posts celebrating killing slaveowners in the civil war era started receiving this type of Admin message. That was years ago.

All to say this is not so much a change as an update to an already existing policy that now affects more posts and users.

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u/xenelef290 29d ago

So Reddit doesn't think slaveowners should be killed?

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u/explodedsun 29d ago

Sure sounds like that