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Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content. (htxt.co.za)

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit has begun issuing warnings to users to regularly upvote violent content with a view to taking harsher action in future.

The company says that it will consider expanding this action to other forms of content in future.

Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I think it's a joke about dead internet theory, rather than userbase size

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

The joke comes from an increase in bot use on Reddit, and the subsequent false positive / false negatives in trying to figure out which ones are bots

Lemmy has that problem too, but it's much smaller in scope. Mostly because there's less of a reason to try and control the narrative on this smaller platform, but also because the goals are different. Lemmy instances get no benefit from a bunch of fake engagement, and public upvotes makes it easier to catch manipulation