A reddit moderation tool reports “Luigi” as potentially violent content
The Reddit automatic moderation tool fixes the word “Luigi” as potentially violent – even when the content is not.
But Reddit do seem to report comments that mention “Luigi” in some cases, even those unrelated to Mangione – but not the way he seemed to be for the first time. The Reddit spokesman said that R / Popculture had recently fell to a single moderator, Characteristics of the Automob Launched, including a means of filtering the “keywords that could – but not necessarily – indicate the violation of the content”. The remaining moderator of R / Popculture said The penis That the MOD team has not added “Luigi” to the list of keywords, Reddit did it.
The R / Popculture moderator published on the Luigi number at the Sandretdit R / Freeluigi, a basic community where people discuss The Mangione case. The sub-dector has implemented strict rules to avoid violating Reddit’s moderation rules, as referring to Mangione by his initials and a general prohibition of content which requests or approves violence. But the moderators still fear that Reddit decides to stop it – even if they do not take place on the rules of the platform.
Meanwhile, R / Popculture – which has more than 125,000 members – firm due to problems that the moderator remaining pin on Reddit. The moderator who posted on the problem “Luigi” announcement Last night, they closed the whole community “due to the administrator of Reddit being whores of Cretins.” In the position, the moderator says that another member of the team has been suspended and that Reddit was not useless by trying to resolve the suspension.
The Reddit spokesperson said that the R / Popculture moderator had been suspended for approving the content containing direct calls to violence, “including the images celebrating [the Donald Trump rally shooter] and the content calling for murdering the president. An R / Popculture moderator denied that it had happened and said that the content in question was a photo of the shooter who did not celebrate it. Reddit spokesperson notes that Automod features are temporary for R / Popculture and that moderators can always approve the publication content.
The “Luigi” problem occurs the same week as Reddit’s new repression against prohibited content. Earlier this week, the company announcement It would warn users who vote the prohibited content on the platform. The policy applies to users who repeatedly vote for this content in “a certain calendar”, Reddit says In an article, and the company will start by enforcing the rule on violent content. The spokesman says that at that time, no one was suspended under the new rule.
