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/smellycoat Mar 08 '25

These are the same motherfuckers that allowed T_D to proliferate for years before doing anything about it.

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u/FallenAngelII Mar 08 '25

And are allowing r/Converstive to exist. Pretty sure most of the T_D deplorables just moved there.

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u/Vlaed Mar 08 '25

It's worse because they wall it off and kick anyone who doesn't fit in.

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u/turbosexophonicdlite Mar 08 '25

They even kick out their own flaired long time members if they even slightly nitpick Trump, or suggest he's anything less than a perfect god.

Like the people that initially disagreed with Trump's handling of Zelensky in the white house. Of course the group think happened after Fox News got their talking points in order and they all knew what they were supposed to think about it.

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u/schoh99 Mar 08 '25

You're not wrong. But let's not pretend that there aren't a whole slew of left leaning subs that do the exact same thing.

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u/currently__working Mar 08 '25

Which ones? Dont just assume, give me concrete.

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u/schoh99 Mar 08 '25

For starters all subs moderated by u/saferbot and u/safestbot.

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u/currently__working Mar 08 '25

Having never been to any of those, I can't say anything about those. What similar behavior are you referring to on those subs, again conrectely, which is similar to conservatives and the wrongthink?

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u/schoh99 Mar 08 '25

The whole function of those particular modbots is they will automatically detect whether a user has ever participated in any "unapproved subs" (including r/conservative) and autoban said user from the subs they moderate.

r/whitepeopletwitter and r/blackpeopletwitter famously have lots of threads that only their approved users can participate in.

Hell, during the summer of love r/letterkenny, a sub for a Canadian sitcom was immediately banning anyone even slightly questioning the relevance to the sub of all the memes about BLM.

And that's a small fraction.

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u/currently__working Mar 08 '25

It's not the same thing as what we were discussing then. I'm looking for that, not this.

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u/schoh99 Mar 08 '25

Ok, then you're being intentionally obtuse. You wanted examples of people getting banned for wrongthink. I gave examples of people getting banned for wrongthink.

"I'M RIGHT BECAUSE I SAID SO"

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