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/whogivesashirtdotca 29d ago

I got permabanned at the outset of the Gaza shitshow for reporting a violent comment. Worldnews claimed I was trying to suppress discussion and killed my 10 year old account. Had to appeal for it to be reinstated. Sucks seeing a great service descend into the morass of bots, bad actors, and propaganda.