Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content.

[Guest]

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.

[Guest]

Technobitching in the valley. You just prefer boring conference-tier activities with slideshows, mumbling and occasional pafos hand clapping.

[otter@lemmy.ca]

• 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 that

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

[heavydust@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[otter@lemmy.ca]

[email protected] is decent for the more technological side

[darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works]

Once you have shareholders, users don't matter anymore, you serve them instead.

[Guest]

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.

[kitnaht@lemmy.world]

Hell yeah, thanks for the suggestion!

[spicylizards@reddthat.com]

Reddit ... punish users...

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[Guest]

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.

[supramario@lemmy.world]

Mods don't do perma bans. This has nothing to do with mods.

[redditrefugee69@lemmynsfw.com]

This is different. Admins have access to much more of your data and can issue site wide bans.

[_sideffect@lemmy.world]

So why even allow the content in the first place?

[venotic@kbin.melroy.org]

I can see r/publicfreakout being the next in a line of banned communities now.

[warlockofthewoods@lemy.lol]

That's so crazy it just might potato!

[venotic@kbin.melroy.org]

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.

[singletona@lemmy.world]

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!'

[Guest]

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.

[monstrosity@lemm.ee]

The amount of censorship taking place on that platform every day lately is kind of staggering.

[dns@discuss.online]

I can see simply voicing dissent can result in a ban on Reddit. Has happened easily to me and likely others. Fuck Reddit.