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/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/Maleficent_End4969 29d ago

ChapoTrapHouse also regularly called for explicit violence, denied atrocities by communist states, like the Holodomor and Tiananmen Square massacre, and generally other tankie extremist drivel.

I mean shit they regularly talked about how North Korea is actually a communist paradise and so is China.

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u/Red_Bullion 29d ago

Being a communist is (nominally) not against the rules.

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u/Maleficent_End4969 29d ago

you can be a communist and not be a tankie. Don't praise Stalin. Don't praise North Korea. Don't praise genocide. easy peasy

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u/TotalNonsense0 29d ago

Denying atrocities is the literal opposite of threatening violence. I'm pretty sure reddit is fine with that.

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u/Youutternincompoop 29d ago

yeah if denying atrocities got subreddits banned r/mapporn and r/worldnews would have been gone ages ago.

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u/aeschenkarnos 29d ago

And r/conservative of course.

Whatever rules they come up with, they’ll always be twisted to permit the continued participation of American conservatives.

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u/Maleficent_End4969 29d ago

Living up to your username.

Denying atrocities is denialism; it's painting atrocities with a paintbrush of fiction as to deny the history and to handwave that violence is okay because those atrocities never happened.

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u/TotalNonsense0 28d ago

Sigh. I guess it really is impossible to be sarcastic on the intranet no matter how obvious it seems like it should be.

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u/Maleficent_End4969 27d ago

You'd be surprised. I've heard tankies repeat the exact same thing you said, without sarcasm

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u/h3lblad3 29d ago

/r/FULLCOMMUNISM got quarantined for Genocide Denial over talking about how the Wikipedia pages for Holodomor and the Great Chinese Famine claimed that a portion of the numbers were fabricated -- the wikis claimed that the death tolls included the difference between typical birth rate and actual birth rate as part of the death counter (which is to say, counting imaginary people as dead since there's no guarantee how many were even conceived -- you're effectively counting a woman dying as X deaths based on fertility rate).

But if you see that on the Wiki and then go, "Whoa, that's a bullshit way to come up with numbers," you get labeled a genocide denier and the whole sub gets quarantined.

(For anyone who goes there now, it's changed since then. It used to be a meme sub but after quarantine years ago the only people left are the hardcore unironic tankies.)

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u/rhodesc 29d ago

tankies suck. ceos generally suck. loo-ee-gee doesn't suck.