• plutopos@lemmy.zip
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    8 days ago

    The other day I got a notification that Reddit removed my comment for hate speech. I was scared. Had I said something hateful?

    I went to check. It was a comment under a “Homophobic Gaster” meme in the Deltarune community. My comment was:

    IT IS I

    GASTER DELTARUNE

    AND I AM VERY,

    VERY

    HOMOPHOBIC.

    Reddit moderation has no human input whatsoever

    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      About the time that I knew that I was going to be leaving Reddit was when I got a similar notification, for threatening violence against another.

      It turns out in the post I was mocking a fictional character. That’s literally it.

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        8 days ago

        Fuck Erebus subreddit got banned for harassment and harm towards others. A completely made up character specifically designed by writers to be one of the most hated individual. No reference or links to anyone in real life.

        That subreddit got banned just before i did.

        So hating a fictional character is enough to trigger R1

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            7 days ago

            Yeah, and yes it was just stupid random sub dedicated to one of the most hated character of Warhammer 40k universe.

            It did got banned oddly just before i started to get warnings and temp bans in rather rapid succession, for pretty much the same behavior iv had been already doing for years.

            I assume they launched some new form of detection algorithm in the first half of this year.