Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content.

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• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Once you have shareholders, users don’t matter anymore, you serve them instead.

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  • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They don’t even serve shareholders, they serve the money they will give them if profits increase short-term.

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• NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • DNS@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was banned for saying fascists need to be hung, appeal rejected. While you got that r/conservative sub and others like it being well, fascist and calling for Liberals demise.

    Seems to me Reddit is a OK with hate speech as long as you hate the right kind.

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  • Bzdalderon@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every Reddit mod is thriving in victim culture. The instant someone makes a complaint, they become a victim, and the smooth brained mods are incapable of removing their anchoring bias from their brains when making a decision.

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mods don’t do perma bans. This has nothing to do with mods.

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• Lemmist@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reddit’s moderation policies are already too crazy and moderators are already abusing whatever they want. I don’t expect anything to become significantly worse.

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  • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is different. Admins have access to much more of your data and can issue site wide bans.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can’t have anyone taking about the abuses going on, it makes Glorious Leader look bad.

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  As always, fuck reddit.

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• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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  • see_i_did@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’ll eat your new reddit and train any AI models that we decide to feed your data to and you’ll enjoy it. Reddits clients are probably passed that all their models end up turning into incels.

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• singletona@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!’

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  • rothaine@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Define ‘violent.’

    No. You will simply receive a warning if we don’t like your activity on the site.

    Really, what are you doing interacting with this website to begin with? Stop posting. Stop commenting. Stop voting.

    Just. Consume. The. Content.

    We need your eyeballs for the ads. Everything else is driving up our costs.

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  • arin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• hopesdead@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you are still on Reddit, that is pathetic. The API pricing was the reason to leave.

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• n3cr0@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are still human users over on reddit? This must change. More punishment on reddit please!

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Delusional. There’s like 100 users on Lemmy. Reddit has grown its userbase this year.

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    • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it’s a joke about dead internet theory, rather than userbase size

      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 a reason to try and control the narrative on this smaller platform, and 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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    • kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • WarlockoftheWoods@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s so crazy it just might potato!

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• Meltdown@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Funny enough, I just made this account after getting banned from reddit for reporting violent content. Apparently it constituted “abuse of the report button”, go figure.

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  • Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I got banned for telling a mod “spank spank spank. Thats the sound I make as I spank you. Yes yes yes. Thats the sound you make as I spank you.” And I don’t regret it

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    • reiterationstation@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t regret that either.

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• barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Monstrosity@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The amount of censorship taking place on that platform every day lately is kind of staggering.

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  fucking normienet. why not punish users for overthrowing democracy and spreading misinformation , being bigoted and everything else that got us in this mess?

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because that generates 🌟ad revenue🌟 😍😍

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• EndofLife@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They are trying so hard to stop the civil war they are creating.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just one side

    The Digg alternative was fine with td

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• Snowstorm@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What if i think «guillotine » is the most beautiful word of 2025? I know some would argue Luigi should be first here, but i stand by my conviction.

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • 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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• ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shit site full of mentally handicapped pedos is shit, who’d have guessed?

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• SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reddit … punish users…

  Newest news!

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hegemonic violence will continue to not be acknowledged as violence.

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In theory that doesn’t sound so bad, but in practice, what are they actually labeling as violent and does some violence get a pass?

  There have definitely been inconsistencies in the past where certain types of violent rhetoric gets a pass but other content that even comes close gets axed no question.

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• heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  violent is the new harmful

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• small44@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hope it’s not to silence proofs of israeli crimes

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• _sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So why even allow the content in the first place?

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