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/RaygunMarksman 29d 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 29d ago

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

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u/CassandraFated 29d ago

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

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u/AVGuy42 29d ago

Eshitificatiom

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u/DanSWE 29d ago

Well ... "enshittification"

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

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u/liatrisinbloom 29d ago

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

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u/TheNerdJournals 29d 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