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/Jabberminor 29d ago

Luigi.

Luigi.

Luigi.

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u/TommyTheCommie1986 29d ago

I wonder what else they consider "violent"

And I wonder how quickly they will regret this because that might be more then half of all the users getting warnings

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u/SlashaJones 29d ago

I wonder what else they consider "violent"

Last I had heard, they refused to define what they consider violent content to be, with their reasoning being they don’t want people to “game the system”.

But how can you follow the rules if you don’t know the rules?

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u/Ksh_667 29d ago

Ppl will always find a way round these things anyway. Refusing to define the rules isn't the win they think it is.