Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content - Hypertext
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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.
  • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    8 hours ago

    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!’

    • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Violent is what people in power want to oppress. Right to abortion ? VIOLENT! DEI? VIOLENT! Workers rights? VIOLENT !

    • rothaine@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      8 hours ago

      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.

      • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        8 hours ago

        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.
        • shaggyb@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          8 hours ago

          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.