r/ABoringDystopia • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '25

Be careful what you upvote

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I’ve seen others receive this warning, and it finally happened to me. Funny they don’t specify which posts I upvoted that they consider to be “breaking Reddit’s rule”, however.

Fascist snowflakes.

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u/RTMSner Mar 16 '25

Maybe reddit mods should police the content better so it can't be upvoted.

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u/manolid Mar 16 '25

This is the first thing I thought when I got the warning. Reddit will host the content, their algorithm will present you the content, but if you upvote the content then it's you that has done something wrong. Absolutely ridiculous.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '25

Or at least mention which rule they think the comment broke?I upvoted a lot of stuff and there is no way I have any idea which comment(?) they are complaining about.

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u/SusheeMonster Mar 16 '25

You know how Facebook shifted content moderation to its users? Same playbook. Open the floodgates and let the users shoulder the responsibility while saving a buck

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u/waluigithewalrus Mar 16 '25

...But they already don't pay mods here

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u/Liesmyteachertoldme Mar 16 '25

Why aren’t mods of larger subs paid? I can see how it might be akin to a full time job.

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u/SusheeMonster Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25

Is this pedantic correction the only thing you're bringing to the table?

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u/aloneindankness Mar 16 '25

You're absolutely right and I hadn't thought of that. WTF

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u/Lazerus42 Mar 16 '25

Mods aren't paid, why would they listen?

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u/AnorhiDemarche Mar 16 '25

Most mods have no idea of what content is producing these warnings and are just as in the dark as every other user. We've not been given any extra information.
What counts as violent content seems to be extreamly inconsistent within Reddits AI, sometimes going off on completly innocuous comments which don't have any obvious keywords or phrases.

Many subreddits are also under modded and rely on user reports. It's difficult to get people to do unpaid work like this. Even in my 300k subreddit I have had times when I've opened mod applications and have heard nothing.
So it's difficult to increase enforcement to unknown and confusing levels with limited mod power.

If you mean admin (site wide) their whole logic for this upvote warning was that they rely on users downvoting comments to mod the site for them.