A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content

A Reddit spokesperson, who requested that The Verge not use their name due to the sensitive subject matter

What the fuck is this? We’re granting corporate spokespeople anonymity now?

You give it to whoever asks for it or you never get another source again.
- This isn’t a “source”. This is a corporate spokesperson
- That’s not what they do according to their own ethics statement
  
  https://www.theverge.com/ethics-statement
Uhh, isn't that kinda against the whole point of being a spokesperson in the first place? To put a name and a face behind a message?

Dunno why The Verge plays along.
- Because The Verge wants them to return their calls. It's not like it matters. Spokespeople aren't the ones making decisions. It's the C-suits, which is publicly available.
The anti evil operations team has done this in the past.
- What the fuck is “the anti evil operations team”? That sounds like corpospeak for a team that does deeply evil shit
Actually, yeah. Otherwise, you fuck up whistleblowing. They could be in the position, realize what's happening is wrong, be documenting it, trying to get out, etc...
- Are you seriously suggesting there is no way to grant whistleblowers anonymity without granting it to corporate spokespeople providing statements on behalf of the company? You’re a fucking idiot

Luigi is a hero.

See how easy that is when you aren't given the table scraps of the rich?

You are now banned from .world for inciting violence.
- Dunno why. I'm just talking about the guy who fights ghouls who live in mansions.
- That hasn't happened in a long time.

Fucking scary shit. Now, it is simply "liking" content Reddit doesn't like. Soon, it will be upvoting things that the government doesn't want you to see, or paints them in a bad light.

paints them in a bad light.

So, like... facts?
- Just like facts.

I’m actually so happy to see the start of the fall of Reddit. It’s been going on for a couple years or so, but it is happening.

It's so ironic how a site with a leftist lean just chose to alienate their core base. I guess their hope conservatives and liberals staying will make up for it? Lol
- It’s becoming Facebook. A cesspool of people just reverberating off of each other.
- Leftist lean is a bit of an understatement. It's not just Reddit. In general, the radical left is being recognized for the violence and chaos they've spread over the last decade and the government is realizing they were left unchecked for too long.
  
  Now they're just being treated the same as the radical right.

So, are subs like /r/Mario and /r/Nintendo going to be banned for "encouraging violence"?

No, the mods will just get constant streams of false positive flags they have to clear.

Reddit is rich too though
- Spez is a loser with only millions, compared to his billionaire tech bros. This is the main reason he started ruining reddit in the past years, he is frustrated and wants to also become a billionaire like his buddies

Linguine

The enshittification continues.

All because of greed.

I don't think this is about greed... this about owners not liking how plebs feel about a dead CEO
- Which is because of greed.

Yeah, I was banned for talking about suicidal thoughts, so they’re definitely going to ban me if I say Luigi Mangione is my hero and did a beautiful thing.

The fact that I can read this comment, makes this site a million times better.
Are you in a better place now?
- Yeah, thank you. My post was really just a "if things get bad enough, I can always blow my brains out which gives me a strange sense of comfort" sort of thing and it was flagged as threats of violence... against myself I guess? Silly. I will of course do my best to not let things get to that point and try to look for the positives in life.
Allegedly.
That’s wild. I joined Reddit when everyone left digg, so 2008ish. There used to be a sub called /r/suicidewatch where you could post those kinds of thoughts safely. There can obviously be some issues with that but what a change

So you think they will get sued by Nintendo?

Came to the comments to find this question lol

I was banned for warning people i would punch them if they upvoted violent content and to knock it off. If spez doesnt want my help then he can go back to his personally moderated kiddy porn subreddits

With doxxing being the threat it is, I kind of get why a mod wouldn't be comfortable with that. The absolute last thing any mod acting in good faith wants is for someone to track down and hurt in real life a member of their community. Telling people you will punch them for upvoting violent content could be seen as the first step to doxxing someone. It's a bit over sensitive but we've all heard true horror stories about people getting doxxed.
- i guess if viewed from an overly protective POV and maybe in a sensitive subreddit in subject matter, but in the more generic subs that make it to Popular regularly, quality shit posting needs to be considered and applauded as being such. Like if it was a subreddit for survivors of being punched by redditors, i would not make such a comment, very poor taste.
Ever since Spez took over, Reddit have been incredibly heavy-handed when it comes to enforcing their rules against inciting or glorifying violence, even if such a comment is directed towards people that are objectively hated, like nazis, pedophiles and child murderers. To that I'm not even remotely surprised that you got banned.

Even posting that Nazis deserve to be punched in the face can get you a permanent ban from Reddit... You know... the people who over 80 years ago were responsible for gassing 6 million Jews, 6 million Russian POWs and thousands of homosexuals and political dissidents.
- You now also get penalized for even upvoting content they find objectionable. (for example, comments containing the name Luigi)

Hey look, the cancer is dying of itself..

It just shows how scared the elites are of all the people they screwed over.

They can't like stop looting, for them it is is easier to run propaganda and censorship regime so they can keep fucking us.

This is what a class war looks like in practice, and most people still denial about it.

We’re in the world of wrongthink now

I'm definitely getting more and more hesitant to exercise free speech, due to rapidly increasing government monitoring and corruption.
- I've been ramping up my de-googling for this exact reason, I wish I had done it years ago but complacency is a removed

Get Brianthompson'd, Reddit.

People saying Luigi is a hero but then defend the Democrats. Truly astonishing. Luigi’s actions are a call to systemic revolution. He is a god damn hero, and will probably go down as a martyr if the federal government gets their way.

He is not a hero, but he is the first crack in the floodgates. Whoever he is, he is a first sign of people losing temper. And his ongoing defence in court is a vehicle to make important problems relevant. Not everyone can stand behind shooting a CEO, but his act introduced the long-silenced topic that is a common ground with MAGA people too, and that's why corpo fuckers want to put it down.
- Luigi didn’t shoot a ceo.
- Not everyone can, but most do
Democrats aren't perfect but we'd be in 92% better shape with one in the Whitehouse right now.
- We? Who is we? The working class would still be exploited. We’d just have a President who is “nicer” about it. We need a revolution, because reform is damn near impossible now.

It’s getting harder not to hate these people

Innocent until proven guilty.

Does it flag "Notmario"?

The more I see the less I want to go back.

fucking bowser at it again.

This is the time for Nintendo to whip out a lawsuit

I was going to say, “For what?” But then I remember that Nintendo just blasts lawsuits at anyone who remotely mentions something related to one of their IPs.

I’m surprised they haven’t sued Italy over their name since that is where Mario is from.
- They recently sued a tiny convenience store in Costa Rica because it was called "Super Mario", because in Costa Rica, any moderately large store is a "Super", and the owner happened to be named "Mario" so.. You can figure it out.
  
  Anyways, Nintendo lost that lawsuit

Why stop there? If I where reddit and we go with these kinds of decisions, I'd propose the use of LLMs to ban anything that consititutes negative statement including disagreements.

Luigi spez

The guy stomps on innocent, unsuspecting little turtles and occasionally burns them alive. Of course it should be flagged.

And what's with those legs on SMB2? He's clearly on some kind of drugs.

"All I said was 'that piece of halibut was good enough for luigi'"

"BLASPHEMY"

"Luigi, luigi, luigi"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5YU_spBw0