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/ice-eight 29d ago

I've caught two 3 day bans for "threatening violence" lately. One for the Navy Seal copypasta, which I assumed anyone online enough to be a reddit mod would know was a copypasta and not an actual threat, especially given the context. Apparently not. The other was a quote from The Office, which I won't repeat since I don't want to get banned again, that pertains to a hypothetical scenario involving Michael, a colleague, two historical figures and a limited amount of ammunition.