Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content - Hypertext
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Upvoting violent content in "a certain timeframe" will now earn Reddit users a warning, and possibly worse in future.
  • Reddit has begun issuing warnings to users to regularly upvote violent content with a view to taking harsher action in future.
  • The company says that it will consider expanding this action to other forms of content in future.
  • Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.
    • dumblederp@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      I reckon it’s more that they need to be ‘seen’ to be doing something about it, but will nonetheless take the engagement as long as it doesn’t cause a stir. I mean they had jailbait and watchpeopledie as large subreddits for ages… until they started getting flack for it.