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/homonculus_prime 29d ago

Don't just remove your comments when you go. Use a tool that goes and edits all of your comments, replacing them with garbage, and THEN delete the account.

Not that I'm considering this.....

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u/Mysterious-Job-469 29d ago

Just please don't return if you do this...

There are so many game subreddits with obscure problems and the fixes that follow which are just absolutely destroyed now because people decided they didn't like the API change and protested. Which is both their right and I respected the hell out of, even if it meant losing some valuable information.

However, at one point, I decided to click on the username of one of these so-called protesters who destroyed the only online solution to a problem nearly a year ago. Do you know what I found? Reddit activity. Recent, daily Reddit activity. When I did some more digging, there was only a FOUR DAY GAP in their posting history between destroying all of their helpful posts and crawling back.

The one thing that I cannot stand is a performer. Bro couldn't even be bothered to make an alt, god forbid he lose the 60k karma I'd argue he's not entitled to anymore by destroying all his helpful posts over the years.

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u/Cendeu 29d ago

How would one find one of these tools?

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u/homonculus_prime 29d ago

Myself, I'd probably write something, but I'm sure there are tools out there already if you search for it.