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/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/socsa 29d ago

once caught a ban for reporting too much transphobic content.