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/Odysseyan 29d ago

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/thunderclone1 29d ago edited 29d ago

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/Red_Bullion 29d ago

I got banned from /r/politics for explaining the ideology of Malcolm X. Not even agreeing with it necessarily, just explaining it. On a sub obstensibly about politics.

/r/chapotraphouse originally got quarantined for a thread discussing how John Brown was right and did a good thing and the slave owners deserved it.

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u/NeighborhoodSpy 29d ago

May his soul go marching on. A song that is about Patriot JB.

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u/PatchyWhiskers 29d ago

The Battle Hymn of the Republic is woke now

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u/alexm42 29d ago

Always has been