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[–] Resurectra@lemm.ee 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Got my first warning from upvoting Luigi.

I will keep upvoting him :)

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I got banned for posting an animated gif of Luigi.

[–] nestle@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

Back in 2017(?) I got whale whaled for telling a racist to commit seppuku. Would've worded it differently but I don't wholly regret it

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Context:

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.

“This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content,” a Reddit employee says in the announcement post. In comments on the post, a user expressed concern that the new policy could make people “paranoid about voting,” but the employee says that “this would be an unacceptable side effect, which is why we want to monitor this closely and ramp it up thoughtfully.”

If it violates policies, remove it and move on. This is weird.

“We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide,” according to the main post. Reddit “may consider” expanding the warnings in the future to cover repeated upvotes of other kinds of actions as well as taking other types of actions in addition to warnings.

Now that there is Thoughtcrime territory.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

“Hey investors look away from the huge pile of porn we’re hosting and look at these cool content filters we’re adding”.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago

Porn, you say? 🧐

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This reminds me lots of when Facebook started applying warnings/bans/etc retroactively to content without any context. I remember getting several wrist slaps in the same month for content I had shared a decade prior that really wasn't all that bad. But Facebook decided it was a problem and made me question what I was allowed to post in the future. It didn't take long after that for me to stop using Facebook completely.

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

The exact wording seems to be "banned content", which includes a lot more than just violence (is violence banned in the first place, considering subs like r/PublicFreakout?).

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[–] toxiczombie@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Ok. I'm new here. What's a tankie

Edit: tysm everyone for the answers

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People that Stan authoritarian countries. The term comes from when the USSR crushed liberation movements with tanks in the Republics and many western communists approved of the crushing. People who love China, Russia, Assad’s Syria, etc are tankies.

[–] toxiczombie@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Makes sense. Tyvm

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

People who are obsessed with tanks

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

Panzer IV my beloved

[–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No you’re thinking of Acoustic people

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Sounds right

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Freshwater or salt?

[–] toxiczombie@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Ah that's me

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[–] CabbageRelish@midwest.social 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

It’s actually old hat. Users on r/cth (where hexbear came from) were catching admin bans for upvoting the “wrong” posts years ago.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

And fuck nazis

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (15 children)
[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Since we're counting to ten:

Classic tankies are the authoritarian leaning communists, that is communists willing to use (military) power to accomplish their goals and will voice those more aggressive sounding opinions.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Ah, thank you!

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[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The nationalists hanging around in leftist spaces

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[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To me seems to be people that think that the evil imperialist actions of countries that claim(ed) to be Communist are excused by the evil imperialist actions of the USA.

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[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Radical centrists who want a form of socialism where everyone is oppressed by the state, thereby combining the ideas of the left and the right.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] formulaBonk@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Just another way to allow hateful right wing content to stay up while punishing users who aren’t retarded for upvoting Luigi memes and saying trump is a fascist etc

What else is new on Reddit? They should just pull the trigger and make an official bigots only policy like twitter

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

In case you're wondering what's considered "violent content" on Reddit and how far they'll push this definition, calling the top 10 breakdown of healthcare CEOs "Luigi's List" counts.

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