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/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/crankywithakeyboard 29d ago

Exactly. If they actually wanted to get rid of our "evil" upvotes, they would actually let us know what we did wrong on which posts.

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u/DopeBoogie 29d ago

Or just remove those posts?

Are they leaving the posts up and punishing the people who upvote them? What kind of backwards logic is that

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u/DopeBoogie 29d ago

Feels like they are just encouraging less engagement.

And I thought that engagement was their whole business model. 🤷

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u/Doubtful-Box-214 29d ago

Repeating common lines isn't really engagement anymore to investors. It's the era of rage bait. Someone spends 10 seconds to type incredibly outlandish thing, 100s of people will be spending minutes each to find good sources and counter. There's an account in Indiaverse who is dv every thread for rabidly bigotted or stupidly wrong comments and he never gets actioned by reddit because of the engagements he bring.