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/_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/Justsomejerkonline 29d ago edited 29d ago

Meanwhile, any time I report a post spreading transphobic hate speech in the last few months I always get a response back saying "we've investigated this post and actually it's perfectly fine to say trans people are a bunch of groomer rapists who indoctrinate children and should be eliminated from society. Please let us know if you have any other issues. 🤷"

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u/Hellknightx 29d ago

Reddit's always been kind of shady. Back when the site was still new, one of the top subs was "jailbait," a sub dedicated to pictures of girls that were, or appeared to be, underage.

Also, "fat people shaming" was another top sub. People like to blame Ellen Pao for a lot of things, but banning those subs was a good call on her part.

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u/TheCuriousFan 29d ago

Reddit's always been kind of shady. Back when the site was still new, one of the top subs was "jailbait," a sub dedicated to pictures of girls that were, or appeared to be, underage.

Wasn't spez a former mod of that one?

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u/Hellknightx 29d ago

Yes, but back then you could make anyone a mod of a sub and they didn't even need to accept. So kind of an irrelevant point, even though people bring it up all the time. The important part is that he knew about the sub and allowed it to exist for years.