Citizen, you have been found guilty of wrong think!
Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content
Submitted 2 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/625075/reddit-will-warn-users-who-repeatedly-upvote-banned-content
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huquad@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Thought police will be dispatched.
crabigno@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Karma police will soon follow
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please report for reeducation
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Well that’s just straight up fucking bonkers.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Any more bonkers than anything else on Reddit since the exodus? Lol
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 months ago
not surprising, on another site/forum where reddit users got banned for upvoting to promote thier of accts, thats whats been happening. they are using some technical tricks trying to get around these bans, but reddit is quickly closing those gaps, thats why thier bans have been so aggressive lately.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Well, exactly the same can and is happening on specific Lemmy servers too.
One of the vegan instances bans you if you downvote anything that speaks in favour of veganism. Not that I just do this out of spite, but there was this time where a thread about vegan cat food gained traction and I downvoted some comments that were really borderline. Ban within an hour.
Same on that notorious star trek instance. Go ahead and put some downvotes on Discovery related posts, it will also earn you a temporary ban.
So let’s not pretend that it’s only big bad reddit doing this.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like there’s a difference between various moderators power-tripping on their own little fiefdoms, and a site wide policy.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
A little, sure, but from my point of view (which you are happy to disagree with), very little.
Personally I am a big Star Trek fan. I was stoked to see there is an actual dedicated Lemmy server for it, with many communities focused around everything Star Trek. But I disagree with their admin/moderation so much I had to change my account to another server. At some point ended up blocking the whole instance because I just cannot keep myself to just reading what others are posting.
So even if I can use another server, I cannot use those communities. Similar if I were a vegan and would not agree with what some of the more extreme users are posting.
There are not many active alternatives for these communities on Lemmy.
rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good point. The other important difference is that on Lemmy you can jump to a different server. Once you get banned on Reddit, that’s it.
Spaniard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Vegan cat food? What the frak, poor cats.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
its sickening how they pretend to care about animals and nature by being vegan yet its just egotripping and blatant animal abuse. If they actually care about animals they should be the first ones denouncing vegan cat food.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah. I’m a vegan and I took issue with that. Sure we can do scientific studies to see how cats do on vegan diets, but imo that further propels cat domestication which vegans should be against at the very beginning. We already subject cats and other pets to environments that aren’t natural to their genetic history. And now vegans are introducing foods that aren’t natural, even though taking cats off streets can be seen as the more ethical thing to do, given the alternatives.
Lots of nuance here, but it’s not fair to the cats. Any time vegans think for themselves instead of the real victims of animal slavery, they undermine their entire cause.
agelord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Discovery is shit.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 months ago
cant believe that show went on five seasons, and it got worst every season too, and the obvious objective kurtzman was evident by season 4(female leads were the only sex left on the cast)
JulieLemming@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Never seen but just cause I am in contrarian mood today: discovery is utter garbage
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 months ago
It had its moments, but everytime id start to like it theyd pull some shit that south park would make fun of
stardust@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Plus side here is that people can move to another instance and start commenting right away as opposed to being shadow banned for a period in certain subs and having to build up enough karma to start not automatically having every comment flagged.
People aren’t stuck the the policies of instances they don’t agree with whether it be reasons for bans or what instances are blocked or whitelisted.
Wilco@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes, but that is like being banned on a specific Reddit. You didnt follow the rules. Reddit will ban you from the entire platform.
JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Lemmy even has the option to disable downvotes, so they’re obviously using downvotes as some kind of purity test.
Side note, there should be a way to soft block certain instances so you can see and interact with its federated posts but not send anything to the instance itself. You want to limit open discussion on your instance? Fine, but everyone else is still going to talk about you.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
if you block an instance, it doesn’t block the users or their posts on other instances
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The motives behind the actions of these groups are vastly different though. A corporation silencing anti-establishment speech is not equivalent to lemmy moderators abusing authority in their micro-feifdoms
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
True, can’t argue with that. I am maybe a bit too pragmatic when I say, I don’t care about the difference because the outcome for me as a user is the same.
JulieLemming@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s enough to make new account every couple months
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
See my other comment. That is not really the solution since you will simply get banned again after a while, depending on how much you interact there. Unless admin/moderation changes, making a new account just gives you a bit of extra time using those communities.
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 2 months ago
Its decentalised nature doesn’t get you removed from the whole network though unlike Reddit. You can always interact with other instances.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
at least here its more easy to just let them stew with eachother or for more sensible part of that community to just break off. in reddit its the site owner who ultimately decided how the site goes, here its the community itself.
vibraniumdroid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s crazy, had no idea that data was available to the mods of an instance
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
It’s way easier to do with Lemmy compared to Reddit. It’s trivial to subscribe to a stream of all activity in a community (posts, comments, upvotes, downvotes, moderation actions, etc) and do things when particular actions happen.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Which I don’t have a problem with. Having vastly different moderation policies can create a walled garden, but there are instances where a walled garden is just preferable. See how askhistorians was handled. It’s better to have a platform that you can shape to your needs and the potential needs of your users. If it’s truly useless, then nobody would use it
Bunbury@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I got banned from a vegan group once because I responded to a person talking about how “non-vegans must be sociopaths to not care about all the suffering of animals as they scream in pain” or something like that. I responded with a link to a study that plants do in fact scream when being injured. We just can’t hear it. Apparently they didn’t like that, lol.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Plants do not have a central nervous system to process pain and even if they did “feel pain” you’re still eating more of them by eating animal products…
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 2 months ago
if someone does that post it in yepowertrippinbastards and make a new sub on a different instance, id join, ppl can be made aware here
eleitl@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes, Lemmyverse will fragment, so it’s important to choose sufficiently permissive instances or even run your own.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 months ago
gross, even STD is being defended here, who is paying for these shills. nutrek is such a badly written/show franchise right now.
Djfok43@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Does this happen on lemmy.world?
ksigley@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This is my first comment from Lemmy. Thanks again to whoever suggested it.
Crankywithakeyboard@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Mine too! They recommended Lemmy on r/redditsafety.
Fuck Reddit.
zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Welcome. I joined from reddit in 2025, and happy to see more come over since Reddit has become a corporate, bot-filled, propaganda arm for many different groups
ksigley@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I appreciate it :)
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ksigley@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I love it.
Savourycouch7@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Mine too! Already having fun time!
nestle@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Same — I never used Reddit but I found out about Lemmy from a Content Creator I enjoy. Seemed cool, a few privacy policies later and I’m here. The more I read about Reddit the more I’m glad I never used it.
ksigley@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I was super late to the party. Wasn’t really a heavy user until right around the API changes.
Psythik@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You picked a decent, reliable instance. Good choice.
Don’t forget to block Hexbear and LemmyGrad!
ksigley@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Oh dear. I don’t even know how to do that. I really appreciate the feedback.
Gimmeva few minutes to tinker around in the settings.
exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 2 months ago
reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote calls for a violent revolution against the billionaire class and the fascist neo feudalist mikitarized police state enforced wage slavery and rent till death economics they have created to benefit their endless growth driven profits while ignoring upvotes of content that praise violence against leftists, women and other marginalized leftist aligning groups and ideologies There, FTFY
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Does that mean spez is getting banned for being a mod on r/jailbait?
LWD@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Just keep in mind: your upvotes on Lemmy are visible to anybody who runs a Lemmy instance.
God help us if Elon Musk figures out how to run one.
MTK@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Basically declaring that they don’t allow free speech.
“Hey, you have been liking things we disagree with and we need an echo chamber here, align with us or fuck off. Sincerely, the money hungry bitches of the internet! Also heil daddy musk!”
Litebit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t forget to leave bad review of reddit app.
TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s amazing how they tolerated people preaching for violence against women and immigrants for over a decade, but all of sudden their passion for non-violence is so extreme after a rich white guy gets killed.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 2 months ago
15 years on reddit. Multiple accounts banned for slamming Nazis. So I’m here slamming Nazis. Long live Lemmy.
Astra@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Fuck Reddit
Requiascat@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’ve been a Redditor for 13 years. I read the Admin explanation and the Mods reactions and immediately downloaded Lemmy. I’m still gonna lurk just to watch the chaos but fuck that noise with someone else’s dick thank you very much.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 2 months ago
I once got banned for “vote brigading” on Reddit because I upvoted a crosspost that was deleted later, so this comes as no surprise. They have been monitoring upvotes and downvotes since forever.
cmrn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Warms my heart to see all the ‘new account’ badges in this thread.
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hey to everyone moving in from reddit. Don’t forget that lemmy can’t fill the void you’re trying to fill without content.
Thanks to the federated nature of lemmy, we have infrastructure, we just need more creators on it.
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Friendly reminder that almost all news media outlets and social media platforms are owned by a handful of extremely wealthy individuals and they are in full control of the algorithm that feeds you content, so you’ll likely never see anything that is critical of them or advocates for them to have less power or influence than they do.
This is the 2025 version of “The revolution won’t be televised”.
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday.
Hmm. What does this pertain to?
kagis
theverge.com/…/reddit-rules-bans-violence-doxing-…
Reddit has seen an increase in rule-breaking posts across “several communities,” and it has issued a temporary ban on one that featured users calling for violence against people who work for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
That community, r/WhitePeopleTwitter, was given a 72-hour ban on Tuesday, as reported by Engadget. Screenshots shared on X show multiple examples of the threatening posts. Musk later reposted the screenshots, claiming that the users have “broken the law.”
In a note on the subreddit, Reddit says it was banned “due to a prevalence of violent content” and that “inciting and glorifying violence or doxing” violate Reddit’s rules. An unnamed Reddit admin said the ban was meant to be a “cooling-off period” for the community.
Reddit also gave a full ban to a subreddit called r/IsElonDeadYet for violating rules “against posting violent content.” The unnamed admin said Reddit is taking steps “to ensure all communities can provide a safe environment for healthy conversation” in a post on r/RedditSafety.
Ah.
bong_hits_for_jesus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
reddit died when it became a publicly traded company. now it is just another propaganda tool
Resurectra@lemm.ee 2 months ago
🙋🏻♂️ +1 on having received a warning. I’m a simple man. I see Luigi, I upvote.
Day 1 on lemmy so am finding my way around still :)
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Thank God I’m not on reddit anymore.
ehxDeez@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Anddddd this is how and why I found lemmy.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reddit going full mask-off 1984 huh? Next thing it’ll be illegal to downvote things Reddit likes to push… Or why even bother with the votes anyway, Reddit will just show you only the things that it deems good for you, like the benevolent Big Brother.
Fuck that place.
Also: welcome to all our new members! “We’re Not Perfect, But At Least We’re Not Reddit!” ™
4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
At this point being banned might be a good thing to drive home the point that also my favorite of the old corporate internet platforms should be avoided. I’m doing quite okay on staying away from Meta and have long deleted my Twitter account. I can’t get myself do drop Reddit somehow. Seems like they’re only helping me get off my addiction
Overlordhelpme@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I’m loving this. I had almost 15 years without so much as a warning and then suddenly several 3 day bans, a 7 day ban and a perma ban. They don’t want people commenting negatively towards fascism.
Naevermix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reminds me of back in 2013 when Reddit admins accidentally revealed that Eglin Air Force Base, a location often cited as the source of government social-media propaganda/astroturfing programs, was the most Reddit addicted city in the world.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
can someone explain to me the difference between corporate and government censorship, when corporations and the government are definitely fucking?
Beemoviebuthorny@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Exactly the same. I got critical of the right and all of a sudden banned for violence ? After 12 years ? And me NEVER calling for harm to anything.
But I got hyper critical of the right and that’s what did it.
Reddit is and has failed.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Everybody upvote Luigi content! Get banned! Leave reddit! Reddit crumbles! Fuck reddit! Go Luigi! Lemmy growns! Centralized social media dies! I eat a burrito. That last one wasn’t really on topic, but it’s happening anyways! I’m hungry.
EndofLife@feddit.org 2 months ago
I’ve been banned twice in the past 30 days.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I got permabanned a couple weeks ago for saying “the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi”
Like, why are you defending Nazis, spez? Huh?
Xanza@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Same. I used Reddit for 12 years. Got perma-banned last year for saying things about Israel that people didn’t like, I guess.
Moved to lemmy.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 months ago
5 of my accts were banned last month, all at once. one got temp suspended, and a triggered a sitewide ban for the others for some "reason. theres no reason to ban all others when it was just temp suspended. but they went extra out of thier way(any old and new accts that have years of seperation between a subreddit ban(if they dint get banned immediately after getting sub banned) they banned accounts.
parmesan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Already got permabanned for saying he was justified, I like it better here anyway
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I got banned but their site is so shit the links to the message you got banned for never work. Been banned/warned enough times it’s not a one off either.
Wilco@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Same here.
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s in your burrito? My favorite is adobada.
CrimsonMishaps@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I like beans in mine.
psyspoop@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Lengua
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 months ago
i pointed out the censoring of luigi news in dec, and people actually believed that wasnt happening, and having all that trump rage post slop thats been posting in order to astroturf luigi news.