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_ 29d ago

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 29d ago

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/boringestnickname 29d ago

Same! Been here since the beginning, never had any sort of issue.

Suddenly, a couple of weeks back, I get a 3 day site-wide ban.

The post that supposedly broke rule number one ("inciting violence") was this one:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1is26sx/the_closest_we_ever_got_to_achieving_world_peace/mdf4pja/

Tell me where in that post I in any way, shape, or form "incite violence".