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/nerdywithchildren Mar 08 '25

Excuse me sir/mam, consider yourself warned by Agent Reddit.
If you continue this kind of talk, you'll be forced to create a new account.

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u/PotatoCamera419 29d ago

I got one of those warnings this morning.
They don’t even say what it was I supposedly upvoted, just a vaguely threatening “that’s a nice account you have there, be a shame if something were to … suspend it.”

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u/greentintedlenses 29d ago

They wouldn't dare hurt their user numbers now that they are public