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Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content (www.theverge.com)
submitted 18 hours ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Lol, how is it even possible to upvote banned content? I mean, is it not deleted if banned?

[–] conicalscientist 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It means accounts that consistently upvote posts that end up being banned.

The naive take is that this will remove bot/brigade swarms that are collaboratively boosting content that breaks site wide rules. You can derive ulterior motives from this if you want but I'm pretty sure that's the basic premise.

I have no doubt this will be leveraged by the far-right to sow more discord. They already have a history of raiding subreddits with false flag attacks to get them sanctioned until it escalates into full blown subreddit ban. This is all but formalizing the mechanism.

[–] finder585 1 points 44 minutes ago

I think the real implication of the system is that Reddit will also start banning you for down-voting posts too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Banned after you upvote it

See something that’s pro-Luigi? That’s banned content

Pro-lemmy? That’s banned content

Upvoted a post about hypothetically killing a Republican? That’s banned content

Etc

[–] InputZero 3 points 1 hour ago

This type of behavior is never tolerate on Reddit. You disagree with a Redditor, straight to ban. No trial, no nothing. There's no journalists. We'll have a special subreddit for journallists. Under represent a Republican, believe it or not ban. Over represent a Democrat, also ban. Reddit has the best users on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

They probably did this specifically because people were upvoting our favorite plumber.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I got banned on Reddit, not by moderators of the sub, but by site admins for saying I hold similar values about CEOs like Luigid did.