Warning users that upvote violent content

Reddit has been dead for a while. There is still a lot of great information hidden along the noise, but it’s very much not a community that you can belong to. Your comments will almost never be taken seriously, or even be noticed. There’s almost no point in taking part in actual discourse on Reddit. People might think this is about politics, but I really don’t discuss politics on Reddit. Instead, any topic on Reddit gets this treatment, even when the topics are mundane. Smaller subreddits do still manage to avoid this, to be fair. But at any moment any small subreddit could get new mods, get banned, or even just see an influx of new users which permanently changes its character.

Looking at the language around "upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning", and comments from the admin, it is quite clear that the definition will remain subjective and can change over time.

I assume this is relates to the posts in recent days suggesting Reddit is now penalising users for interacting with some posts about Luigi Mangione.<p>As we’ve seen previously, Reddit will continue to slowly evolve in a direction that suits its corporate owners, and protests may feel empowering in the short but fail to change anything in the longer term.<p>In the meantime, it would be a shame[0] if this was protested using the John Oliver approach[1] only with pictures of Luigi.<p>[0] not really [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-65949412.amp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-65949412.amp</a>

I recently got selected to take a survey on changes they are rolling out. I took the survey on a lark.<p>They are turning it into Digg. Giant ads after the first result of every content listing page pushing most results far below the fold.<p>Its going to cause a mass exodus.

Did I just read:<p>&gt; &quot;This will begin with [targeting clearly objectionable content], but we may consider expanding this in the future [to opinions we do not like].&quot;<p>And further down:<p>&gt; &quot;It is everyone’s collective responsibility [to ensure no one disagrees with us] ...&quot;<p>I do see the problem of moderation, but don&#x27;t think this in itself is a good solution long-term.

As reddit became more commercialized, somehow it turned into a place where mere opinions resulted in bans. Sometimes directly, but more often what happens is moderators allowed users with sanctioned opinions to relentlessly verbally deride those with unsanctioned opinions and then ban the target as soon as they reflected even one iota of the lashing back.<p>It has gotten to the point where even HN, a place full of progressive coastie techies, looks like a free speech bastion of thought diversity by comparison. I miss the pre ~2015s internet where even though everyone might hate you, you had the right to your opinion.

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