r/technology • u/marketrent • 28d 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/thunderclone1 28d ago edited 28d 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/RaygunMarksman 28d ago

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 28d ago

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

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u/CassandraFated 28d ago

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

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u/AVGuy42 28d ago

Eshitificatiom

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u/DanSWE 28d ago

Well ... "enshittification"

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

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u/liatrisinbloom 28d ago

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

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u/TheNerdJournals 28d ago

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