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Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content. (htxt.co.za)
submitted 6 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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[–] rothaine@lemm.ee 22 points 6 days ago (6 children)

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.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (5 children)

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.
[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You can't expect Reddit moderators to have the bravery of a hawk

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In fairness. Most Hawks don't have the bravery birdboy had.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

If he only had a hawk-sized watch, we wouldn't have this problem

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