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/_BLACK_BY_NAME_ Mar 08 '25

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 Mar 08 '25

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 Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

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 Mar 08 '25

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 Mar 08 '25

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

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u/Lazy-Damage-8972 Mar 08 '25

It’s time to move back to digg or something else. I wish it weren’t so hard for everyone to jump platforms these days.