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Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content
Submitted 1 year 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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berno@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Daelsky@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Yeah I got signaled on reddit for saying something about Trump, Elon and Vance regarding to Ukraine. Nothing that hasn’t been said, but I said they can fuck off and stop propping Russian imperialism and kidnapping children while commiting warcrimes. Guess Reddit is against that as they removed my comment and gave me a warning.
you_are_it@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Also biased admins, there are places that are manipulated for disinformation purposes. It is kind of scary, when the sceptical view point gets deleted or thread blocked for no other reason than harming their often made up narrative.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
there are powermods, and some mods have control of 500 subs, i think 92 mods control just 500 of those subs, and some of them might be admins too/ or at least friends with admins.
Corno@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m glad that I don’t use Reddit. I remember there was a very talented artist who was wrongfully accused of using AI and banned on the art subreddit. That artist got banned even though he showed receipts to the mods proving he drew the art, and I guess with this policy, I’d be at risk of being banned from Reddit altogether because I for sure would’ve upvoted his art, it was amazing.
Kualdir@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I got shadowbanned after finally actively posting… On r/BuyFromEU… idk man
x00z@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shadowbanning in Europe is very hard to pull off without crossing DSA and GDPR rules, which require transparency and informing of the user. Specifically DSA Article 17.
Here’s a Dutch case regarding it: dsa-observatory.eu/…/the-dsas-first-shadow-bannin…
I’m posting this because if you are European, you should be informed of any shadowban, which makes it a normal ban by definition. If you had to investigate and found out you are shadowbanned, your rights have been violated. I think the best way to get something going is by using a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body, although there’s probably a lot of other ways. And if you don’t want to return to Reddit anymore, it might be fun to throw some legal shit at their shit platform on your way out.
Kualdir@feddit.nl 1 year ago
My reddit account suddenly got a lot of “server errors”, can’t post anymore and likes don’t count towards the streak. Since getting the “Network errors” I’ve also been getting 0 interaction.
I do actually live in the Netherlands now, what could I do to try and cause some chaos for this bs without paying for it? It happened to my last reddit account as well which a subreddit mod literally told me was shadow banned (like over 5 years ago now) and I should get that checked out.
Gewoonmoi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Perma banned because I wished c-ncer on a pro-Israel troll. Is that an earned ban you guys think?
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
badge of honor for calling these people out, i was temp ban early in the war for pointing out knesset/bibi/netanyahu was the sole enabler and institor of the war and also leading up to it, he ignored intel by other countries that a attack was likely to occur and he orchestrated some things with hamas in the past too.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I wished cancer on plenty pro putinist, pro stalinist, pro genocide pieces of shit and got permad as well.
I have so much free time now.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
spez loves trump, and by extensive putin. he cant have that on his site.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I had my 13 year old account banned on reddit and the ‘final’ statement was saying ‘No, just the problems they deserve blame for’ to a Zionist who accused all Lebanese people of blaming all of Lebanon’s problems on Israel.
Just saying that apparently is a call to violence against Jews…
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
israel has been working overtime on thier censorship of anti-israeli sentiment, both on reddit , msm and IRL. quashing protests, and having celebrities and politicians shilling for israel.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Not gonna lose a lot of sleep over a hateful asshole getting banned from a website.
All hateful assholes believe their brand of hate is justified, just as you do.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you want to call hating on Nazis “hateful” then by all means but other than child rapists and rapists in general. I fucking hate Nazis and they can all go die for I care. That group murdered millions. They deserve all the hate they get, all they way till the end of time.
exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Zionists deserve all the vitriol they get.
Teknikal@eviltoast.org 1 year ago
I had an old account banned site wide for asking why there was an obvious gay guy on love island. Wasn’t even a malicious post I was genuinely curious how he faked his way on there.
Recently I got a temp ban for mentioning chatgpt on the books sub, someone was asking about a large selection of books and which were worth reading. I told him to get chatgpt to sort the list out by most popular. Apparantly even mentioning an llm exists there is a ban.
Kinda get the second one as authors all think chatgpt stealing from them or something but yeah I was talking about sorting a large list
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
i got banned from lgbtq+ sub, but i was able to repeal it, because the reportee misconstrued my comment. thats the only time my comment got repealed, i still block the sub though.
Hoimo@ani.social 1 year ago
Why the hell would you go on a book community, open a discussion post that is clearly asking for personal opinions and go “I dunno lol go ask chatgpt”. I would’ve banned you too tbqh.
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Jesus… ITT I learned mods on Reddit are fucking snowflakes.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hell, I said all Nazis can go die or kill themselves. Perm banned. Reason why I’m here. Fuck that place.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I said “It’s ok to punch Nazis” and my 13 year old account was insta-banned.
Reddit it trash.
ookiiBoy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
… But all Nazis can go die or kill themselves.
Daelsky@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Yup. I said things about Elon and Trump and how they are nazis supporting nazis like Putin commiting war crimes and I got a warning. Reddit can get lost.
Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Samesies. All I said was Nazis should get punched. This is a much better place all around, so fuck spez
Makhno@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I got banned when I saw someone say trans kids should be hunted in schools, and I told them I wish they’d get hit with a brick.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I got banned for making fun of Kemi Badenoch when she said autistic people are privileged. I said maybe she’s jealous that there are people that know more about trains than her. That was apparently enough to warrant a permanent ban.
Jaybird@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thats be wise you where too much of a pacifist in your response.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
underwire212@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Ew
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
he just got hatched from a oligarchy alien nursery and dint come out fully formed.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That’s the pedophile piss baby aka u/spez aka Steve Huffman, right? As in the guy that moderated a pedo sub?
What a greedy little pis baby pig boy.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fuuuuuuuuuck spezz
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 year ago
The police should check his hard drive
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reddit is a piece of shit.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Does saying “The only good fascist are really dead fascist” counts? What if I add that USA is a fascist country now? Will saying Donald is a pedophile still counts (I got banned for it already lol)? What about saying my favorite sport is nazi punching? And if I had that there’s no such thing as “roman salute”? Is Reddit about to drop a new t-shirt line “Protect fascist’s feeling” or something?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You mean if someone said something like, “Trump and Epstein raping a 13-year-old is a matter of court record.”?
Nemean_lion@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I said we used to have a method of dealing with traitors. Got banned for it.
Fucking done with reddits shit.
underfreyja@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same, in January, I said something to the line of traitors used to be publicly hanged, now they’re elected and got banned for it. That was the last straw, came here right away and was happy to find the place striving compared to last time I tried it.
Wilco@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yes, this is the exact mentality.
I got banned yesterday for basic “Eat the Rich” quotes with the occasional Luigi or Guillotine animated gif thrown in here or there.
Reddit is cracking down on anticapitalists for sure.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
they also crack down on increased thier filtering drastically “botty and spammy behaviour too” even the slightest comment will trigger a ban, or comment removal.
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Got in trouble for saying in reply to an “eat the rich” comment that they should be fed to something instead
mrodri89@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Its so obvious Reddit is just swarming with bot users. Not sure why most users haven’t just come to Lemmy already.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
there was a post a few years ago, that reddit was about half bot comments, mostly from propaganda sources. reddit has been cracking down on the wrong bots though, going after of accts mostly.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
- Niche communities
- Addictive algorithms
- Fediverse complexity
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fediverse complexity is definitely part of it. But it does keep some of the riff raff out.
mrodri89@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I honestly dont think its complicated. People who cant figure it out or look on YouTube wouldn’t probably have great ideas to share. 😆
yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 year ago
paywall it, have bot create content, ban all humans.
reddit is the internet of things.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
At this point, getting banned at reddit is a badge of honor.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
i also give badges to people who can evade it successful with more sophisticated methods, of and advertisers for thier business.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m rocking a chest full of badges then.
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Uh…the “badge of honor” would have been quitting back during api-gate and not looking back. Getting banned now just means one participated after that time, providing spez with traffic and value, and helped normalize the behaviour that is only just now a bridge too far.
Today, a ban is the “conciliatory prize of not thinking ahead”.
shaggyb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah, just circumvent with revanced and poison the well.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 year ago
3rd party apps closing down I can see from a business point. Makes good business sense. Keep everyone on your shitty app and monetize it. I wasn’t for it but understood the greedy fucks behind it.
Now it’s just different. Banned for going against Nazis, just means they are in bed with Nazis. That’s the last straw.
DicJacobus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
reddit permabans you for vague interpretations of things they consider “threatening”
its already a thought crime zone.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
i had so many of those bans, mostly of someone misconstruing my statement, which im agreeing with everyone on the sub/post. and people are very nosey they look into your post history and acct age.
even making a vaguely implying something should happen is a threat for some reason. evey mentioning race can be touchey to. apparently your not allowed to say black, or demographic.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You gotta say “we will vote to have the state do this” before your threats. It’s like sudo for threats.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Does that mean spez is getting banned for being a mod on r/jailbait?
Petter1@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Lol, how is it even possible to upvote banned content? I mean, is it not deleted if banned?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Users with banned accounts can still be responded to and they’ll even get emails about it
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.
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.
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
Probius@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
They probably did this specifically because people were upvoting our favorite plumber.
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.
futatorius@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Nobody elected the mods or the admins. And the management has shown itself to be, at least, MAGA-adjacent.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same shit happens here and you know if. Anyone with any user count is heavily moderating violence.
MTK@lemmy.world 1 year 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!”
Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 1 year ago
hypothetically speaking, if someone blew up their office HQ, that would send a powerful message. of course, if you have the balls to do that, there are some other offices that would probably be much better targets.
Bzdalderon@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
To be clear, they’re talking about banning right wing people. Reddit is one of the most liberal platforms you will find.
You can’t even talk economics on Reddit without being downvoted to fuck, or banned.
I am a centrist, and I routinely had posts removed and got banned from communities for saying things from actual textbooks taught currently in universities.
No one is attacking the free speech of the left unless it’s radical and advocating for physical harm.
Wilco@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Incorrect. I got banned yesterday for “Eat the Rich” and Luigi favoritism. I believe the post in question (you never know with a Reddit ban because they dont show you) was responding to someone’s post that mentioned the French Revolution with a Guillotine gif and “Git-r-Done”.
Yea, apparently I was plotting murder or something by doing that.
futatorius@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Basically declaring that they don’t allow free speech.
It’s a privately owned platform. You never have an assurance of free speech on any of those, and on Reddit, the rot set in years ago.
Wilco@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I have a strange opinion, but here goes: The Right to Free Speech (Im in the US here), should protect you from censorship. Doing what Reddit is doing should be considered a Rights violation and we should be able to sue them into the ground.
MTK@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There is a big jump from “we are a private company and we have internal rules” to “we are a private company and our internal rules that directly go against human rights”
Geodad@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Of course they don’t. They banned me 3 years ago for saying that if you have the chance, you should always punch a Nazi.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They permabanned two of my accounts during the election last year, just because I said I didn’t care when Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot. She’s a warmonger who’s called for violence against millions of innocent people. Not gonna clutch my pearls when anyone (even Trump) threatens her.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 year 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.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I got perma banned after i joined NAFO as a mod 2 bannes for petty reasons and then the third and final ban. Always waited for the other bans to time out
exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Wtf is “vote brigading”?
exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 1 year 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
toxiczombie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is actually what got me to swap as it reminded me some content will be banned, and so the social media I’ve had for over a decade and thought was going to be the only classic site to retain freedom of speech and expression had proven itself that they will not be afraid to start taking baby steps towards controlling and censoring media. And in the contents section of this post was a person spreading the news of this alternative. So here I am.
ThillyGooth@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember Reddit. I used to like it there.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
John Spartan, you are fined one credit for violating the upvote morality statute.
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Otkaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hope lemmy servers are ready for another population boom.
huquad@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Citizen, you have been found guilty of wrong think!
db2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fuck reddit.
Litebit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t forget to leave bad review of reddit app.
gutsnsuch@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Oh no! Anyways…