• 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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    Supporting Palestine: violent.
    Supporting Ukraine: violent.
    Suggesting Lemmy: believe or not, violent too

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      It is just galling to me that some massive rich dweebs interpreted all of my favorite dystopian cyberpunk as a blueprint

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    Violent content is against Reddit rules. So why is the content not being removed and the poster banned?

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      Because when a trap kills the rats you do not punish the bait in the rat trap.

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      It still drives engagement. Same for the subs that have been flooded with AI stories and bot responses. It can be marketed as engagement to advertisers.

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          I reckon it’s more that they need to be ‘seen’ to be doing something about it, but will nonetheless take the engagement as long as it doesn’t cause a stir. I mean they had jailbait and watchpeopledie as large subreddits for ages… until they started getting flack for it.

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    “Violent” needs scare quotes, because it’s obviously subjective and ripe for abuse.

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    Reddit is now Fascist media. They will suppress talk of armed resistance, if (god forbid) it comes to that.