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c/reddit · by schizoidman@lemm.ee · 1y

Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content

https://www.theverge.com/news/625075/reddit-will-warn-users-who-repeatedly-upvote-banned-content

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23 Comments

Emperor@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 1y (2 replies)

“We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide,” according to the main post. Reddit “may consider” expanding the warnings in the future to cover repeated upvotes of other kinds of actions as well as taking other types of actions in addition to warnings.

Thoughtcrime time.

Bigger picture - what if Xitter, Meta and Reddit (all run by Trump humpers) started centrally compiling this kind of thing to flag up "persons of interest"?

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

Depending on the sub you can get permabanned from it anyways

MasterNerd@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

I mean chances are the FBI and NSA are already doing this to some extent

straightjorkin@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

2 steps away from thought crimes

ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 1y

What a joke

JUST_LET_ME_FAP@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The only subreddit I've been visiting is LeopardsAteMyFace and I got a warning. How is it inciting violence if it's ALREADY happened?

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

Because an AI indiscriminately saw your comment and looked for keywords and just issued a warning, that's what they are not telling to people. I had the same thing on another sub, except the mods also were involved so it was a ban, reddit rules are vague ASF

toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

one down....

https://old.reddit.com/r/popculture/comments/1j5jngg/rpopculture_is_closed/

yesman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I mean when everyone else is jettisoning moderation, reddit is cracking down on bots and trolls? I don't hate it.

sockman@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Sure, but isn't Reddit the one who gets to choose what counts as bannable?

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Their ai detects a ban in your other accounts it decides to ban all your "connected accts" even if you haven't used that acct for years

kat@orbi.camp · 10 pts · 1y

I mean they're deciding based on what falls as violent on whatever arbitrary classifiers they're feeling that day.

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

The thing is, these recent ban waves they have been going after the low hanging fruits. Of accounts, small advertisers, and not the problematic ones like the state sponsored political troll accounts, at least not in large numbers, both by RU and the US, but we know they represent a large amount of traffic on the site. Many articles posted on Reddit was pointed out as being a bot too.

MiyamotoKnows@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

This was the end for me after 12 years. Insanity.

RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world · -15 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if this started happening at Lemmy too. Its a lot easier to control what kind of content is on a platform when you do something like this.

Now, I don't particularly think this is a good idea, but I can see the benefit of this as well. People have the freedom to upvote whatever they choose, even if I think they are dumb for doing it, and they shouldn't have to worry about anyone other than law enforcement or lawyers (in extreme edge cases) using that information against them.

Hubi@feddit.org · 14 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this started happening at Lemmy too. Its a lot easier to control what kind of content is on a platform when you do something like this.

This wouldn't even be possible on Lemmy.

RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Right now maybe, but Lemmy is open source, and anyone could fork it to add this functionality.

HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 1y

Yeah only per instance though, upvotes and downvotes are already public information so it wouldn't take much for an instance admin to implement

CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y

If lemmy did this you'd see forks ripping this out, not to mention anything other than lemmy would not have it, so only a very small subset of the fediverse would be subject to this at all, making it perfectly useless

chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

One thing I like about lemmy is you can still upvote 'removed by moderator' comments and I always do because it's funny

Irelephant@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

and you can view the comment in the modlog.

Emperor@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this started happening at Lemmy too.

You missed the Vegan Cat Food Wars then.

Irelephant@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

I must have. What happened?