Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content - Hypertext
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Upvoting violent content in "a certain timeframe" will now earn Reddit users a warning, and possibly worse in future.
  • 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.
  • shaggyb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    8 hours ago

    I got banned from r/politics in 2019 by replying to

    We should treat Trump exactly how he treats immigrants.

    with

    What do you mean, shoot him?

    Appeal wasn’t ignored. Instead, it was mocked.

    So yeah I’m going to get banned. But not before I poison their AI data pool as much as I can.