Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content
Reddit says the “vast majority” of users won’t be affected.
What a joke
The only subreddit I've been visiting is LeopardsAteMyFace and I got a warning. How is it inciting violence if it's ALREADY happened?
“We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide,” according to the main post. Reddit “may consider” expanding the warnings in the future to cover repeated upvotes of other kinds of actions as well as taking other types of actions in addition to warnings.
Thoughtcrime time.
Bigger picture - what if Xitter, Meta and Reddit (all run by Trump humpers) started centrally compiling this kind of thing to flag up "persons of interest"?
I mean chances are the FBI and NSA are already doing this to some extent
I mean when everyone else is jettisoning moderation, reddit is cracking down on bots and trolls? I don't hate it.
Sure, but isn't Reddit the one who gets to choose what counts as bannable?
I mean they're deciding based on what falls as violent on whatever arbitrary classifiers they're feeling that day.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if this started happening at Lemmy too. Its a lot easier to control what kind of content is on a platform when you do something like this.
Now, I don't particularly think this is a good idea, but I can see the benefit of this as well. People have the freedom to upvote whatever they choose, even if I think they are dumb for doing it, and they shouldn't have to worry about anyone other than law enforcement or lawyers (in extreme edge cases) using that information against them.
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this started happening at Lemmy too.
You missed the Vegan Cat Food Wars then.
I must have. What happened?
One thing I like about lemmy is you can still upvote 'removed by moderator' comments and I always do because it's funny
and you can view the comment in the modlog.
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this started happening at Lemmy too. Its a lot easier to control what kind of content is on a platform when you do something like this.
This wouldn't even be possible on Lemmy.
