r/technology • u/marketrent • Mar 08 '25

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/Odysseyan Mar 08 '25

Lol censoring an actual Italian name. Reddit is such a shitshow

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u/_BLACK_BY_NAME_ Mar 08 '25

I received a message the other day from Reddit saying I was upvoting stuff that incites violence or some shit. I’m an incredibly vanilla user. Reddit is Indeed a shitshow these days.

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u/StonedSucculents Mar 08 '25

Ive been banned for three days twice in the last 3 months on my main account, after having no issues for 12 years on this website. However the hell theyre defining things as harassment is about as loose as it can possibly be. In neither instance was I harassing anybody whatsoever. The appeal is just as much of a joke as the original ban

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u/thunderclone1 Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

I once caught a 3 day timeout for justifying the French revolution.

Apparently that constituted "threatening violence" against some dudes who have been dead for over 200 years ago

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u/RaygunMarksman Mar 08 '25

And see this iron fisted policy has me wondering if I'll get warned again for upvoting your comment about being warned for referencing a moment in history. I don't need that anxiety over whether or not to use a button in the interface. That's a terrible way to treat your customers.

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u/this_here Mar 08 '25

Customers? We're the product. Selling our data is where the $$$ is.

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u/CassandraFated Mar 08 '25

And they still want to make it a paid service. Greedy assholes.

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u/AVGuy42 Mar 08 '25

Eshitificatiom

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u/DanSWE Mar 08 '25

Well ... "enshittification"

(Well, unless online versions of shit are e-shit ... :-) )

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u/liatrisinbloom Mar 08 '25

Careful, you said a mean word - "greedy" hurt their feefees!

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u/TheNerdJournals Mar 08 '25

What kills me is that a lot of news articles that users on this site link to are already behind paywalls. So they want me to pay reddit to click a link I have to pay to read? No thank you lmao

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u/Flashy-Mulberry-2941 Mar 08 '25

That's why all my data is authentic freerange gibberish.

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u/Lazy-Damage-8972 Mar 08 '25

It’s time to move back to digg or something else. I wish it weren’t so hard for everyone to jump platforms these days.

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u/Doubtful-Box-214 29d ago

Doesn't entirely work now because you can't edit comments while suspended, and the edits have to be up for a considerable time or some other logic. My previous accounts still show correct comments today through reddit APIs even though i had edited them all and waited for a day to delete. Best to start editing and removing posts daily