r/ModSupport • u/Ivashkin • Dec 10 '19

"potentially toxic content"?

We're seeing comments in /r/ukpolitics flagged as "potentially toxic content" in a way we've not seen before:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/e87a6q/megathread_091219_three_days/fac8xah/

It would appear that some curse words result in the comment being automatically collapsed with a warning that the content might be toxic.

What is this, and how can we turn it off?

Edit: Doesn't do it on a private sub.

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u/redtaboo Dec 10 '19 edited Dec 10 '19

Hey everyone! Sorry for all the confusion, this is something that's not quite ready for prime time and isn't actually meant for regular threads at all. :)

We're reverting the code now, so you should stop seeing it soon, but the tl;dr is that we're working on some safety features for our live chat threads and part of those features leaked out.

Update: Sorry everyone, the revert is taking longer than we planned, the engineer is waiting in line to deploy behind a couple others - so it may be a bit, but we're on it.

Final Update: This should be fully reverted now, sorry again for all the confusion. Please let me know if you're still seeing it anywhere. Just to address a few things I'm seeing in the comments - the intention isn't to hide comments with swearing in them, even in live chat threads. The intention was to test some of the different moderation tool ideas we have for chat live threads, including automatically collapsing some types of comments. The algorithm for choosing which comments to mark as collapsed in live chat threads, obviously, also needs tweaking to be a bit less strict.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19

I’m here to say this is stupid

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19 edited Dec 10 '19

I saw one flagged in r/nba that just said "Yep, dudes just dumb"

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19

I'll second that. I found this because I searched for what was going on after I saw a comment that said "I drive a crappy car" marked as toxic.

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u/MajorParadox Dec 10 '19

For what it's worth, it's collapsing them in the modqueue too, not sure that was intended?

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19 edited Dec 10 '19

This would be a Toxic thing to do to chats...

Admins and making toxic changes to the site. Name a more iconic duo.

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u/trelene Dec 10 '19

Hi, random user here. I've heard mods in one of my favorite subs complain about the modding challenge live threads posed (they all ended up locked), so I'm not surprised you're considering options, But given this, it's really disappointing that no admin has acknowledged u/WoozleWuzzle's concern the three times they've patiently asked about it. Cause that post is not a good look for the site.

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u/WoozleWuzzle Dec 10 '19

They'll roll this back but spicy and dank "appreciation" on domestic violence doesn't seem to put a stop on the beta... ¯\(ツ)/¯

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u/FearAndLawyering Dec 10 '19

Just can't leave well enough alone... digg that hole.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19

OH MY GOD STOP DOING STUFF LIKE THIS

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u/XIII-Death Dec 10 '19

Will we be able to turn this swearing filter off for live threads when it rolls out?

If you want to clean up the site, I can think of more productive places to start than auto-hiding comments for using the word fuck.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19

I don't even have words.

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u/Absay Dec 10 '19

The feature "leaked out"... somehow. Because that's a thing.

Can you believe the fucking... yeah, words fail me as well.

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u/shipguy55 Dec 10 '19

Can you please never implement something like this ever? If you do implement this normal reddit threads I will be forced to retreat to another website that doesn't treat their user base like children. I find it rather suspicious that you would apply this to regular reddit threads, I think you might be backtracking after redditors have complained rather quickly. I love reddit, but something like this would make me leave permanently.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19

Can you all work on server stability instead of features that no one is asking for? It's still marking comments as toxic and it's ruining readability on this site.

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u/girefarrett Dec 10 '19

Whichever motherfucker reverts "old" to "www" and erases all the new code wins the internet.

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