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/nerdywithchildren 29d ago

Excuse me sir/mam, consider yourself warned by Agent Reddit.
If you continue this kind of talk, you'll be forced to create a new account.

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u/PotatoCamera419 29d ago

I got one of those warnings this morning.
They don’t even say what it was I supposedly upvoted, just a vaguely threatening “that’s a nice account you have there, be a shame if something were to … suspend it.”

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u/Xaphnir 29d ago

I've just stopped upvoting anything completely as a result of this policy. It's just not worth the risk.

And there's also, as someone pointed out in another thread discussing this, the potential for trolls to bait and switch people to get them banned (i.e. post something that gets upvoted, then after it gets a bunch of upvotes edit it to blatant threats of violence).