Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content

Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Banned after you upvote it

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

  Pro-lemmy? That’s banned content

  Etc

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  • InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Probius@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• conicalscientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • finder585@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Users with banned accounts can still be responded to and they’ll even get emails about it

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