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/Apprehensive-Ask-610 29d ago

hey to be fair, there aren't raiders in Vegas. They're fiends, vipers, and jackals. And I think there was one gang in Westside that's like ten people.

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u/HeOfMuchApathy 29d ago

That doesn't make them not Raiders.

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u/Apprehensive-Ask-610 29d ago

in a technical sense, yes. There's just no unified faction called "raiders" like in 3 and 4.

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u/HeOfMuchApathy 29d ago

So it's semantics.