Reddit

Luigi Luigi!

Honestly this is a good idea, just overwhelm their review queues

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.

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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.

They won't be scared until there's another Luigi.

Given how much spez mainlines Musk's farts, how is any of this a surprise to you?

I've been on lemmy for like a year and

• the worst thing that's happened on lemmy is that nicole botspam

• meanwhile Reddit has done at least 3 heinous unforgivable things in that time

They keep permanently suspending ppl so theyll wind up here, almost like someone working there secretly wants the fediverse to do well and is shifting the population over by permanently banning them (I dont really believe this before ppl argue like im stating a fact)

It's that whole "slash funding, complain it isn't working, privatize" approach on a smaller scale.

reddit is making way for right wing-only content, they allow "other side content" to drive up engagement.

as if Mods will spend time to check every single "luigi" comment, they arnt going to be bothered by, they will just auto-ban or use a bot to give a "Reason" to ban.

IRL Luigi's Mansion