Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content.
Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content.
Upvoting violent content in "a certain timeframe" will now earn Reddit users a warning, and possibly worse in future.
- 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?
fucking normienet. why not punish users for overthrowing democracy and spreading misinformation , being bigoted and everything else that got us in this mess?
Because that generates 🌟ad revenue🌟 😍😍
Can't have anyone taking about the abuses going on, it makes Glorious Leader look bad.
As always, fuck reddit.
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.
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.
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.
Violent is what people in power want to oppress. Right to abortion ? VIOLENT! DEI? VIOLENT! Workers rights? VIOLENT !
I was permanently banned from reddit recently. Reason? There was a moron in a game sub who kept saying that I am dumb and my stats must be shit. I shared my stat and commented, “It must be tough to think and breathe at the same time with just one brain cell.” Boom. Banned for violating some policy. The moron who was being toxic is still active and pissing other people off. What’s more funny is that they even rejected my appeal.
I was banned for saying fascists need to be hung, appeal rejected. While you got that r/conservative sub and others like it being well, fascist and calling for Liberals demise.
Seems to me Reddit is a OK with hate speech as long as you hate the right kind.
It's just like Twitter. Now that Trump is back in the white house, tech companies can get away with whatever boosts profits, even if it means being a toxic cesspool of conservative hate speech (it's ok because the president does it amirite)
Fuck reddit. My ban is a badge of honor for not being a fucking snowflake.
Filing appeals is a joke on Reddit. They just simply ignore all of them. I've been shadowbanned from Reddit now for almost a month and I've submitted maybe three appeals. They just get off on their righteous rhetoric who feel they can never do wrong. They probably get off on people begging to have their accounts restored. Spam-filtering my ass, it's working as intended as in, it makes their jobs easier to ignore you.
It’s as if they want bland business-friendly content so advertisers and data miners pay for their users eyeballs or content.
Well, that, and hate speech directed at government-approved society segments.
Every Reddit mod is thriving in victim culture. The instant someone makes a complaint, they become a victim, and the smooth brained mods are incapable of removing their anchoring bias from their brains when making a decision.
Mods don't do perma bans. This has nothing to do with mods.
The amount of censorship taking place on that platform every day lately is kind of staggering.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
You’ll eat your new reddit and train any AI models that we decide to feed your data to and you’ll enjoy it. Reddits clients are probably passed that all their models end up turning into incels.
Reddit's moderation policies are already too crazy and moderators are already abusing whatever they want. I don't expect anything to become significantly worse.
This is different. Admins have access to much more of your data and can issue site wide bans.
Hegemonic violence, state violence, capitalist violence...
These will continue to not be acknowledged as violence.
Guys! This is how we could attract more users for the Fediverse! We could......UPVOTE VIOLENT CONTENT!!!
....ya know what? It sounded more epic, and made more sense in my head. Saying it out loud it just sounds like something a nutjob would yell out randomly in an Arbys in Iowa one quiet Tuesday.
I don't think so. Mods have a sensitivity crisis, they don't like it when people praise Luigi and feel CEOs should get theirs. Or that is considered "ADVOCATING VIOLENCE!!111" because I guess it's okay for CEOs to play god and fuck with everyone's lives on a regular basis but we can't cheer for them to get shot.
That's so crazy it just might potato!
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.
There are still human users over on reddit? This must change. More punishment on reddit please!
Delusional. There's like 100 users on Lemmy. Reddit has grown its userbase this year.
I think it's a joke about dead internet theory, rather than userbase size
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
The joke comes from an increase in bot use on Reddit, and the subsequent false positive / false negatives in trying to figure out which ones are bots
Lemmy has that problem too, but it's much smaller in scope. Mostly because there's less of a reason to try and control the narrative on this smaller platform, but also because the goals are different. Lemmy instances get no benefit from a bunch of fake engagement, and public upvotes makes it easier to catch manipulation
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
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)
- actual abuse
For well moderated subs, the vast majority of those reports became false positives over time. For the mod queue, this didn't affect the end user since mods can dismiss the false positives. But automated 'scores' won't account for that.
We're going to see even more annoying algospeak like "unalive", only it's going to be in news quotes as well
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.
Reddit ... punish users...
Newest news!
violent is the new harmful
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.
Get ready to have this thread removed for (checks excuses) "Rule 2"
Reddit may be a joke, but it isn't the only place. This exact thread has been on technology several times. It's definitely tech related, so rule 2 is just a shameless excuse. Is it just to farm karma on a particular account? Some other reason? Who knows, this is a clown show.
I hope it's not to silence proofs of israeli crimes
So why even allow the content in the first place?