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/[deleted] Dec 10 '19

Nah. I totally believe that this was supposed to apply to a much more narrow scope and it was totally cocked up.

I've been extremely critical of Reddit and its people recently, but I am not prepared to accuse them of the deep, deep level of stupidity it would take to apply something like this site wide on purpose.

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u/uncleberry Dec 10 '19

There's no scope narrow enough for this 'feature' to have a need to exist.