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/Alexwonder999 29d ago

This makes me think, if they really want to go down that rabbit hole theres an huge list if names they could add of people we can no longer say nice things about.