The mods at r/popculture pointed it out. And then the screenshot above.
The subreddit drama
So sad and happy at the same time. I enjoyed reddit for awhile so its sad to see it go further downhill but kinda happy cause fuck all of that shit they are trying to do.
Is the word “guillotine” censored too? Asking for a friend.
What about “Cheeto chopper”?
Yea, my blessed Fediverse brethren, hear ye!
Mark thy holy lemmings, gird your loins with smelling salts and prepare for the unwashed tides. The memes will be terrible and swift, and no one will be safe from the waves of idiocy.
Tremble, for the 2nd Dawn of the Age of Incelius has arrived, and the Reddexodus Reddux is upon us!
gird thy loins with smelling salts
I’m going to wrap so much ammonium carbonite around my junk
Instructions unclear, incoherent screaming
“check for violence” for any comments that contain the word “Luigi”.
This is gonna make Nintendo retro-garming discussions really awkward.
Normies will have to face the censorship they prefer to ignore
The oligarchs are getting nervous. Good. I hope they are a scared. Fuck their platforms and their false backing of “free speech.”
Yeah, the easiest way to control people is when you know what they fear. And, now we know what they fear. They (media/social media/politicians) have been using our fears against us all along, time to see what it is like.
YAS KING!!
MAKE THE PARASITE UNCOMFORTABLE TO EXIST AMONG US
I’m just going to latch onto the top comment…
An actual reddit admin posted this 2 days ago:
Today we are rolling out a new (sort of) enforcement action across the site. Historically, the only person actioned for posting violating content was the user who posted the content. The Reddit ecosystem relies on engaged users to downvote bad content and report potentially violative content. This not only minimizes the distribution of the bad content, but it also ensures that the bad content is more likely to be removed. On the other hand, upvoting bad or violating content interferes with this system.
So, starting today, users who, within a certain timeframe, upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning. 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. This will begin with users who are upvoting violent content, but we may consider expanding this in the future. In addition, while this is currently “warn only,” we will consider adding additional actions down the road.
We know that the culture of a community is not just what gets posted, but what is engaged with. Voting comes with responsibility. This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content. It is everyone’s collective responsibility to ensure that our ecosystem is healthy and that there is no tolerance for abuse on the site.
This was the only thing left reddit had going for itself: that users can influence the algorithm with their votes.
The subredditDrama posts are here:
reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1j5cqq1/multiple_subreddits_express_concern_after_reddit/ reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1j5tcgj/after_an_rpopculture_moderator_is_suspended/As someone who switched to feddit just a few days ago I can say this has been building up. Small things like deciding which comments get visibility, phasing out old.reddit, doing nothing about bots, introducing bot/karmafarma-friendly mechanisms, an uptick in pro-MAGA posts/comments as well as disinfo bots … but still, this feels like an uncharacteristically large step.
It is everyone’s collective responsibility to ensure that our ecosystem
It’s whose responsibility?? HAHAHAH
So, starting today, users who, within a certain timeframe, upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning.
I saw users warning other users to be careful (how they upvote) or they might get banned. I don’t know what else screams “censorship” and “hostile environment” quite like encouraging your own users to caution those around them to shut up.
Let it burn.
How long till the people still using X, Meta, and Reddit products will start to be featured on [email protected] and other related communities?
Out of the loop somehow, what is (this) Luigi all about?
Luigi Mangioni is going through trial for his murder of the United Healthcare CEO. Lots of people rally behind him as a symbol of fighting against the system and the system is not too pleased about it.
social media and msm trying to quash all news about him too.
His alleged murder.
Luigi wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Thank-you very much. I knew about the shooting but didn’t recognise the name.
Again, thank-you very much for your service!
I’m having difficulty deciding whether that was what the US second amendment was intended for, rather than letting their kids shoot each other in school.
My pleasure
It’s definitely higher on the list of desirable outcomes than kids shooting each other. Whether it’s above or below the neutrality line depends on what day you ask me.
I hear you. 🤔
We all know what’s gonna happen next. The Admins will lock out the remaining mod and take it over for being “unmoderated” and install their own puppets like nothing ever happened.
It’s that whole “slash funding, complain it isn’t working, privatize” approach on a smaller scale.
I mean this is political censorship. Just plain and simple. Well done reddit. And i am against violence. But the thing that touches me the wrong way is the idea that not guilty until proven completely got lost in this case. And dont get me started on the united healthcare topic. Ia this still allowed on reddit or will it get shadow banned?
You think Trump is innocent until proven guilty? Because that’s what the post is about. Luigi is only mentioned in the title, in quite poor taste imo
It’s not like we don’t have mod drama but at least when you’re federated, stupid decisions get limited to a single instance and others can simply defederate. Does allow for pretty… erm, interesting views you don’t see on Reddit.
Also the modlog is public so you can at least see who was banned for what.
Nah, mods can just lie in the modlog. Verify that shit, don’t listen to someone just because they’re an authority.
Unless they’re a .ml admin. The admins of lemmy.ml are always perfect.
Yes you verify by opening the mod log and looking at the removed comments.
That’s too hard for the average Lemmy user. They need a mod to tell them what to think instead of reading comments.
That’s the beauty of it.
The drama I prefer is power tripping mods who hate your username, hates that you use acronyms, and hates your server.
The drama I dont want is power tripping developers of Lemmy telling end users (us) what we can/can’t post using the software.
I lost my 14 year old Reddit mod account. That modded a million plus subreddit. Because I made a joke that McConnell was close to death. Which he is. But they banned me before having to offer me stock options. Cunts.
They offer mods stock options?
Long term and popular accounts were offered stock options. I missed it because I was banned. I had millions of upvotes on that account. Very popular.
Was the option to purchase the stock at a reduced rate, or just to purchase it before the IPO? When that happened, it just seemed like a way to inflate their opening stock price by getting the most hard core users to literally buy in.
If you sold today. Still a 30,000$ investment would be worth nearly a million.
They made the offer to specific long term accounts pre-ipo. No different than with Robinhood pre ipo access.
I just woke up to my 15 year old account with a warning and “suspended for suspicious activity” 🤣
reddit is making way for right wing-only content, they allow “other side content” to drive up engagement.
Remember what killed Digg? Sarah Palin super users getting Republican content to the top of Digg. That will just kill Reddit off sooner.
People often think it was the encryption key controversy that broke Digg. Nah, the massive vote brigades and cliques operating blatantly on the open were the first nail. The second nail was Digg redesign with the stated goal of “power users are good ackshually and no way this will go wrong”
If random ordinary users don’t have any power on the site anymore - won’t be heard and will just be punished for ordinary actions - what has Reddit really become?
Why was your 14 year old a reddit mod?
Because if he was 15 he would be too mature to be a mod!
Ba-dum-tissssss
This feels like the internet version of Statler and Waldorf bit
the ban for upvoting “eat the rich” too.
yet reddit admins never had a problem with thedonalds posters litteraly saying people should be shot and other violent rhetoric for years. the key difference is this tome the billionaire class got upset.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Play a charicter specifically to get downvotes, even ASK or subtly imply you should.
Make a bot to downvote anything you dont explicitly upvote, but make upvote button un-downvote posts.
Who said button must corralate to intent? Dont dislike this post OP, i worked really hard on it!
