Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content.
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- 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.
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The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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Delusional. There's like 100 users on Lemmy. Reddit has grown its userbase this year.
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Most users on Lemmy are Delusional. especially here in /c/Technology -- turns out, this community isn't for technology at all, but rather for bitching about silicon valley companies.
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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.
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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
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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. -
- 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
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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.
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[email protected] is decent for the more technological side
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Once you have shareholders, users don't matter anymore, you serve them instead.
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Hell yeah, thanks for the suggestion!
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Reddit ... punish users...
Newest news!
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Mods don't do perma bans. This has nothing to do with mods.
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This is different. Admins have access to much more of your data and can issue site wide bans.
