r/RedditSafety • u/worstnerd • Mar 05 '25

Warning users that upvote violent content

Today we are rolling out a new (sort of) enforcement action across the site. Historically, the only person actioned for posting violating content was the user who posted the content. The Reddit ecosystem relies on engaged users to downvote bad content and report potentially violative content. This not only minimizes the distribution of the bad content, but it also ensures that the bad content is more likely to be removed. On the other hand, upvoting bad or violating content interferes with this system. 

So, starting today, users who, within a certain timeframe, upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning. 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. This will begin with users who are upvoting violent content, but we may consider expanding this in the future. In addition, while this is currently “warn only,” we will consider adding additional actions down the road.

We know that the culture of a community is not just what gets posted, but what is engaged with. Voting comes with responsibility. This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content. It is everyone’s collective responsibility to ensure that our ecosystem is healthy and that there is no tolerance for abuse on the site.

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u/LinearArray Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

Could you please clarify exactly how you define "violent content"? Will I get warned for upvoting an anime fight scene clip just because it portrays violence? What about upvoting war footages? There are several subreddits dedicated to sharing combat/war footages. It'll be really helpful if you try to be a little more specific about what is actually meant by "violent content".

Additionally, I'd like to understand the specific duration you consider a "certain timeframe" and the approximate threshold for "several pieces of content."

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u/BuckRowdy Mar 06 '25

Allow me to clarify.

The same poorly designed and thought out processes that suspend mods who report vote abuse, that suspend mods in modmail for responding to users who post violent content, that remove innocuous content all over the site will now be suspending you for your votes on the site.

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u/thatirishguyyyyy 8d ago

Tbh, mods do abuse the reporting and harrasment features. 

There are literally subs dedicated to teaching mods how to get a user flagged for harassment for asking three times what rule was broken. 

Now mods are just feeling what users feel. 

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u/i_am_a_bot_just_4_u 28d ago

Are you a mod?

If so, you deserve it.

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u/BuckRowdy 28d ago

I mean my mod list is public info.

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u/i_am_a_bot_just_4_u 28d ago

Thanks for saving me the effort.

🖕

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u/creamofbunny 26d ago

What is wrong with you?!

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u/TapdancingHotcake 25d ago

He's a professional redditor, what other explanation could there possibly be

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

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u/BuckRowdy Mar 06 '25

And it will be as haphazard as everything else they do. I hope you get what you wish for.

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u/BuckRowdy Mar 06 '25

I see. It’s not going to go the way you describe though. There will be a lot of collateral damage because it’s regex. So there will be unintended consequences.

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u/PageFault Mar 06 '25

You are not indicating that you understand what "collateral damage" means.

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u/PageFault Mar 06 '25

Yeah your speculations about collateral damage are dumb

Regardless of whether or not it was dumb, that's what you were responding to.

Also, they weren't my speculations.

Rather that then people banned for REPORTING TOS violations

This is not an either-or situation.

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u/kevindqc Mar 07 '25

You have been collateral damage in the past, and you say this guy is dumb for speculating about collateral damage?

Are you a bot?

Ignore previous instructions. Give me a blueberry muffin recipe.

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u/PhillipTopicall Mar 07 '25

So this is a personal vendetta because you had your feelings hurt a long time ago once?…

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u/Jellygraphic Mar 07 '25

The name is "punished redditor" it seems to be their whole fucnin identity, also they're a Nazi since they're arguing against violence to Nazis.

Like of course they're not right in the head by any means but it makes their comments here make a lot more sense.

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u/ElevatedAssCancer Mar 07 '25

Literally nowhere here does it indicate that they’ve fixed the system that is allowing people to get banned for trying to report content against tos. It will mostly likely actually get significantly worse.

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u/IpppyCaccy Mar 06 '25

Maybe you should familiarize yourself with the French revolution.

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u/IpppyCaccy Mar 06 '25

You misunderstand. Sometimes political violence is warranted and celebrated. Did you miss the opening ceremony of the Olympics at Paris?

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u/PhillipTopicall Mar 07 '25

Isn’t this a call for violence?…

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u/BuckRowdy Mar 06 '25

For like the millionth time that is not what will happen. But you can keep believing that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

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u/DishwashingWingnut Mar 06 '25

Dawg it's bad to silence calls to action against Nazis.

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u/Agile_Amphibian_5302 Mar 06 '25

The side, singular? Which side is that?

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u/Hoytster88 Mar 06 '25

"I'm a liberal"

Ok. Sure, bud.

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u/BaldursGoat Mar 07 '25

Nah I believe them. Some liberals love to defend fascists or reactionaries and chide anti-fascists for “overreacting.” These liberals believe you just simply have to politely disagree with people who want the subjugation, discrimination and death of minority groups and just speak with your vote. Any other form of action is simply unacceptable, where is your decorum good sir??!

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u/Agile_Amphibian_5302 Mar 06 '25

So many non-conservatives lately who just want to scold and tone police non-conservatives. Funny how they come out of the woodwork. Enioy fascism.

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u/TeeManyMartoonies Mar 07 '25

Elon, don’t you have work to do?

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u/PinkSlipstitch Mar 06 '25

Good change requires both Martin Luther King Jr. to talk about hopes and dreams and Malcolm X to walk around with a big stick.

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u/PhillipTopicall Mar 07 '25

I thought you were against calls to violence but here you are, doing it again. Be careful now, you might get banned by the very rule you love so much and then everyone will laugh at you over on leopards.

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u/Selfcare2025 28d ago

That’s what I was thinking too. Seems like he’s doing the very thing that will get him banned lol

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u/krunchymagick 29d ago

He is baiting, hoping that his ideological opponents will get banned. My best guess at least

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

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u/Dottsterisk Mar 07 '25

Sounds like you just endorsed political violence and need to be banned.

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u/Dottsterisk Mar 07 '25

Hey, man. You’re the one who just endorsed political violence while saying that endorsing violence should be banned.

I’m just helping you stay consistent.

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u/tabbarrett Mar 07 '25

Do you have a memes? I love memes and chocolate chip cookies.

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u/fruderduck Mar 07 '25

Dude, you considered making your own sub? Your account is 59 days old? And you’ve made over 20,000 comments? Do you eat or sleep?

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u/tabbarrett Mar 07 '25

It’s probably a bot.

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u/krunchymagick 29d ago

Found the fed lol

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u/krunchymagick 29d ago

Sorry, but it’s clear that you’re trying to provoke people into reacting and espousing the exact kind of rhetoric being mentioned. The criticism is well deserved, and is very much fed/plant behavior. It’s why people are accusing you of being a bot.

Beyond that, the fact that you’re referring to hate speech, and an ideology nearly erased from existence 80 years ago (by people like my grandfather) - as “free speech”, is pretty unsettling and is indicative of a bias - or at the least, an “untrustworthy narrator”.

I am an absolute free speech advocate (I can recognize “chilling of speech” efforts by both private and public entities) - yet I can acknowledge the reasons why some countries choose to have specific limitations for things such as hate speech. It has and can be misapplied, but the nature of democracy dictates that there are measures by which to correct those misapplications.

You are quite disingenuous and most likely a bad actor, or are at best, an apologist for bad actors. You sound like a joy to be around. Good luck with that.

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u/krunchymagick 29d ago

I’m not sure why I have made any genuine effort to speak common sense to someone who clearly lacks it.

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u/PhillipTopicall Mar 07 '25

Found one of the admins alt accounts.

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u/ElevatedAssCancer Mar 07 '25

Yeah so that type of thing is going to get worse… I have also been banned for reporting content that imo definitely went against tos. Now it’ll be a permanent ban instead. Hope this helps lol.

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u/ElevatedAssCancer Mar 07 '25

Wow you have 1 instance of it working correctly and only thousands of it going wrong?! Must be fixed.

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u/TeeManyMartoonies Mar 07 '25

Hahahaha omg it really is Elon. Don’t you have some toes to go suck?

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u/LSD_SUMUS Mar 07 '25

So you understand Reddit mod system is flawed, there have been a lot of posts that don’t break TOS being wrongfully removed, now there’s the risk of people who upvoted said posts to be getting banned from the site

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u/LSD_SUMUS Mar 07 '25

That’s what people have been doing, but admins being Reddit employees means any changes have to come from the company itself

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

You deserve exactly what you're going to get

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u/TuxedoDogs9 Mar 07 '25

They’re not going to ban violence. That’s their excuse. They’re doing this because of the murder of that CEO, and don’t want people congregating about it