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
92.9k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

6.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

674

u/_BLACK_BY_NAME_ 29d ago

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.

285

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

1

u/masterflashterbation 29d ago

Not going to defend reddit. But it's pretty different between subs and moderators.

You can get banned or warned in many subreddits for saying anything that's contrary to the narrative of the sub. You can also go to r/wtf or other places and say heinous shit without anyone batting an eyelash.

1

u/StonedSucculents 29d ago

Im talking about sitewide account bans from Reddit “Admin” aka AI bullshit moderation that is sitewide