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[–] [email protected] 37 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday.

Hmm. What does this pertain to?

kagis

https://www.theverge.com/news/606904/reddit-rules-bans-violence-doxing-elon-musk-doge

Reddit has seen an increase in rule-breaking posts across “several communities,” and it has issued a temporary ban on one that featured users calling for violence against people who work for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

That community, r/WhitePeopleTwitter, was given a 72-hour ban on Tuesday, as reported by Engadget. Screenshots shared on X show multiple examples of the threatening posts. Musk later reposted the screenshots, claiming that the users have “broken the law.”

In a note on the subreddit, Reddit says it was banned “due to a prevalence of violent content” and that “inciting and glorifying violence or doxing” violate Reddit’s rules. An unnamed Reddit admin said the ban was meant to be a “cooling-off period” for the community.

Reddit also gave a full ban to a subreddit called r/IsElonDeadYet for violating rules “against posting violent content.” The unnamed admin said Reddit is taking steps “to ensure all communities can provide a safe environment for healthy conversation” in a post on r/RedditSafety.

Ah.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Geez, I sure hope someone starts a fediverse version of r/IsElonDeadYet right away!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I don't know how to do proper links, but wanted to let you know that one does already exist.

https://lemmy.world/c/iselonmuskdeadyet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The format uses ! with the comm plus @ the instance, so [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

is that sub even unbanned, i havnt seen it for weeks. right after whitepeopletwitter was banned, they started another huge ban wave that continued into FEB. definitely silencing all anti-conservative sentiment, the "progressives" posts that are allowed, get AstroTurf by trolls.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That's what reddit is now, a place for people to vent, and have them cattled up if they become too much of a nuisance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

its basically X and truth social posts without going to X. and mix in with some ragebaiting articles from non-reputable sources. you also have to be careful on subs like pics, news, funny, askreddit,ask for the same reasons. why are people ranting on reddit about X and truth social, when you are reposting it.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 19 hours ago

Thank God I'm not on reddit anymore.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Reddit being the go to place for federal workers to explain what is happening on the fednews sub given reddit shadow banning new accounts and anti VPN stance is rather ironic with federal workers hiding their names and using stuff like signal out of fear of what the administration might do to them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Even proxies are not safe, only the more sophisticated ones usually evade reddits detection for a while.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago

THOUGHT CRIME THOUGHT CRIME THOUGHT CRIME

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Is this after it is banned or before it is banned? Either way, seems ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

i heard peoples new accts get banned very quickly after giving "upvotes".

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

F*ck those Reddit guys. Why is anyone still at that corporate swamp ?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Social media should never be corporate, ever. Fuck reddit, fuck Meta, fuck LinkedIn, and all the rest.

Except Tom from Myspace, he's cool.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

He was all of our friend and we left him behind

We're sorry Tom, we didn't think about what we were doing

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Because the Denver sub here is a ghost town

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I suddenly have an urge to upvote banned content. Talk about being insecure. That post was soon followed up by another of the "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong" sort.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

something more ridiculous is getting banned for reporting someone obviously for one of the rule violation. the MOD can choose when they are in the mood, and ban you if they dont like you reporting someone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

Consider r/redditseppuku

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