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Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content. (htxt.co.za)
submitted 5 days ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • 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.
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[–] NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world 49 points 5 days ago (6 children)

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.

[–] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Filing appeals is a joke on Reddit. They just simply ignore all of them. I've been shadowbanned from Reddit now for almost a month and I've submitted maybe three appeals. They just get off on their righteous rhetoric who feel they can never do wrong. They probably get off on people begging to have their accounts restored. Spam-filtering my ass, it's working as intended as in, it makes their jobs easier to ignore you.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 2 points 5 days ago

It’s as if they want bland business-friendly content so advertisers and data miners pay for their users eyeballs or content.

Well, that, and hate speech directed at government-approved society segments.

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