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.
You're viewing a single thread.
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!'
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.
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
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
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.
Violent is what people in power want to oppress. Right to abortion ? VIOLENT! DEI? VIOLENT! Workers rights? VIOLENT !