Lol, how is it even possible to upvote banned content?

[petter1@lemm.ee]

Lol, how is it even possible to upvote banned content? I mean, is it not deleted if banned?

[ilikeboobies@lemmy.ca]

Banned after you upvote it

See something that’s pro-Luigi? That’s banned content

Pro-lemmy? That’s banned content

Etc

[orize@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I got banned on Reddit, not by moderators of the sub, but by site admins for saying I hold similar values about CEOs like Luigid did.

[inputzero@lemmy.world]

This type of behavior is never tolerate on Reddit. You disagree with a Redditor, straight to ban. No trial, no nothing. There's no journalists. We'll have a special subreddit for journallists. Under represent a Republican, believe it or not ban. Over represent a Democrat, also ban. Reddit has the best users on the internet.

[probius@sopuli.xyz]

They probably did this specifically because people were upvoting our favorite plumber.

[conicalscientist@lemmy.world]

It means accounts that consistently upvote posts that end up being banned.

The naive take is that this will remove bot/brigade swarms that are collaboratively boosting content that breaks site wide rules. You can derive ulterior motives from this if you want but I'm pretty sure that's the basic premise.

I have no doubt this will be leveraged by the far-right to sow more discord. They already have a history of raiding subreddits with false flag attacks to get them sanctioned until it escalates into full blown subreddit ban. This is all but formalizing the mechanism.

[finder585@lemmy.world]

I think the real implication of the system is that Reddit will also start banning you for down-voting posts too.

[samus12345@lemm.ee]