• ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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    3 hours ago

    “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,” according to the main post. Reddit “may consider” expanding the warnings in the future to cover repeated upvotes of other kinds of actions as well as taking other types of actions in addition to warnings.

    Thoughtcrime time.

    Bigger picture - what if Xitter, Meta and Reddit (all run by Trump humpers) started centrally compiling this kind of thing to flag up “persons of interest”?

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    16 hours ago

    I mean when everyone else is jettisoning moderation, reddit is cracking down on bots and trolls? I don’t hate it.

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      13 hours ago

      I mean they’re deciding based on what falls as violent on whatever arbitrary classifiers they’re feeling that day.