- 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.
If you are still on Reddit, that is pathetic. The API pricing was the reason to leave.
They are trying so hard to stop the civil war they are creating.
Just one side
The Digg alternative was fine with td
Funny enough, I just made this account after getting banned from reddit for reporting violent content. Apparently it constituted “abuse of the report button”, go figure.
I got banned for telling a mod “spank spank spank. Thats the sound I make as I spank you. Yes yes yes. Thats the sound you make as I spank you.” And I don’t regret it
I wouldn’t regret that either.
Shit site full of mentally handicapped pedos is shit, who’d have guessed?
Hegemonic violence, state violence, capitalist violence…
These will continue to not be acknowledged as violence.
What if i think «guillotine » is the most beautiful word of 2025? I know some would argue Luigi should be first here, but i stand by my conviction.
Can’t have anyone taking about the abuses going on, it makes Glorious Leader look bad.
As always, fuck reddit.
In theory that doesn’t sound so bad, but in practice, what are they actually labeling as violent and does some violence get a pass?
There have definitely been inconsistencies in the past where certain types of violent rhetoric gets a pass but other content that even comes close gets axed no question.
The amount of censorship taking place on that platform every day lately is kind of staggering.
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!’
Define ‘violent.’
No. You will simply receive a warning if we don’t like your activity on the site.
Really, what are you doing interacting with this website to begin with? Stop posting. Stop commenting. Stop voting.
Just. Consume. The. Content.
We need your eyeballs for the ads. Everything else is driving up our costs.
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.
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.
You can’t expect Reddit moderators to have the bravery of a hawk
In fairness. Most Hawks don’t have the bravery birdboy had.
If he only had a hawk-sized watch, we wouldn’t have this problem
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.
They no longer need users, they are just training their AI
I can see r/publicfreakout being the next in a line of banned communities now.
I can see simply voicing dissent can result in a ban on Reddit. Has happened easily to me and likely others. Fuck Reddit.
Reddit … punish users…
Newest news!
Once you have shareholders, users don’t matter anymore, you serve them instead.
They don’t even serve shareholders, they serve the money they will give them if profits increase short-term.
I can’t find it anymore but they had the same experiment around 2015 I guess. If you upvoted too many trolls or far-right people, you could be punished for this. The idea is not new.
Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.
This is the key bit. It’s good to try and make safer online spaces. But Reddit’s automated moderation has been bad for a while, and this might get more users caught up in false positives
For example, I’ve seen comments tagged as abusive regardless of the context.
- someone quoting a news article
- someone making a hyperbolic joke (especially in gen-Z subs)
For the mod queue, this doesn’t affect the end user since mods can dismiss the false positives. But automated ‘scores’ won’t account for that
