Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That
Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That
The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.
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It would be funny if we made one thread of praise for Luigi, and fill it with replies to all get banned at the same time. A huge drop in users all of a sudden, sounds fun.
Just found out half of everything I ever did on the site was shadow banned. Looking into ways to mass delete my history.
Where do I sign up for the exodus post?
There are scripts you can run (there’s a few people have posted on GitHub) that will do one better.
If you mass delete all your posts, Reddit can detect that and just undelete everything. I haven’t seen evidence of that happening, but that’s why people wrote those scripts so maybe there’s something to it.
What those scripts will do is go and edit everything post and comment you’ve ever submitted and replace it with gibberish generated content. That effectively poisons your history in Reddit so the poor AI training runs have a bad time.
How do you know? I'm curious to see how my old accounts might be shadpwbanned. Is there a tool that makes it easy to tell or something?
Thanks.
Holy shit, it's so many. Days apart, so I'd guess like half my comments in the last few months? I stopped scrolling.
Som of them I can assume why. The discussion might be about gendered experiences and I'd use a word like 'sexism', 'rape' or 'bitch' in intellectual discussion. Bots can't know the difference and might think it's harassment (or not ad-friendly).
But so many of them are informative responses to questions in subs like TooAfraidToAsk. Sex, relationships, escaping abuse. Most of them are long comments discussing controversial topics in a nuanced, analytical way. Almost all of them are correcting misinformation, providing empathetic context, or teaching somebody who asked for help.
Shadowbanning comments removes the user's ability to appeal. Jesus, I hope some of these people still managed to get the help they needed.
Literally the only things I still posted there were supposed to answer people's questions and instruct. If I can't warn an 18yr boy that his relationship sounds unhealthy and recommend resources to him, there's no fucking point me being there.
Thanks for the link. I've got stuff to think about.
Sounds exactly like my experience going through the shadowbanned comments. I understood a few of them (like my recent comments suggesting Lemmy). But others were exactly like what you described. They were comments I spent an hour mulling over at times to get them just right with the right nuance and resources. So sorry that this was happening to you too.
Btw, for anyone mistrusting this tool, logging out and viewing things as public or from an incognito browser window should show the shadow banned comments as “removed”. Obviously difficult to do for large scales, but that’s why there’s a tool I guess.
Oh count me in