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Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content. (htxt.co.za)
submitted 12 hours ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • Reddit has begun issuing warnings to users to regularly upvote violent content with a view to taking harsher action in future.
  • The company says that it will consider expanding this action to other forms of content in future.
  • Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.
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[–] singletona@lemmy.world 22 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Define 'violent.'

Does activism count as 'political violence' does posting things that upset people count as 'emotional violence'?

What about being part of a minority? 'ethnic violence!' How about someone that's trans, Gay, or otherwise part of the rainbow? 'Sexual violence!'

[–] arin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Violent is what people in power want to oppress. Right to abortion ? VIOLENT! DEI? VIOLENT! Workers rights? VIOLENT !

[–] rothaine@lemm.ee 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I said something like "billionaires should remember that the alternative is guillotines", just a bit of history, and an admin deleted my comment and gave me a warning.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I ate a three day ban for talking about the morality of killing Hitler if you had the chance. In an animorphs sub, because that happened in one of the books.

'It's Hitler. He Dies.'

  • Tobias.
[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You can't expect Reddit moderators to have the bravery of a hawk

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 2 points 22 minutes ago (1 children)

In fairness. Most Hawks don't have the bravery birdboy had.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 20 minutes ago

If he only had a hawk-sized watch, we wouldn't have this problem

[–] shaggyb@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I got banned from r/politics in 2019 by replying to

We should treat Trump exactly how he treats immigrants.

with

What do you mean, shoot him?

Appeal wasn't ignored. Instead, it was mocked.

So yeah I'm going to get banned. But not before I poison their AI data pool as much as I can.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 7 minutes ago

They no longer need users, they are just training their AI