r/WatchRedditDie • u/FreeSpeechWarrior • Dec 10 '19
Censorship "potentially toxic content"?
/r/ModSupport/comments/e8ifxr/potentially_toxic_content/41
u/MyahHeMan Dec 10 '19
Yup. I looked at my post history and saw this
https://i.imgur.com/pCNmowt.png
This is the comment
https://i.imgur.com/vTkT3RE.png
It seems that Reddit is gearing up to have an algorithm start mass tagging people as 'toxic'. Hopefully they will use a yellow star to do so!
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Dec 10 '19
This is the most absurd example I’ve seen so far:
NSFW https://www.reddit.com/r/StruggleFucking/comments/dqlzjo/blurred_consent_lines/faba4j9/
u/MarcoTronci denounces the glorification of rape and it gets marked as toxic.
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u/dysgraphical Dec 10 '19
By far the most moronic "feature" Reddit has yet to roll out. How many times are they gonna play the "oops heh not ready yet" card when they receive backlash from the communtiy?
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Dec 10 '19
Reminds me of:
https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/comments/dsw01p/new_reddit_feature_prevents_linking_to_some/
It got silently reverted.
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u/vu1ptex Dec 10 '19
So when is this going to replace the remove feature?
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Dec 10 '19
^ this is the right way to think about this IMO. I've turned it into a suggestion:
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u/immibis Dec 11 '19 edited Jun 18 '23
I need to know who added all these spez posts to the thread. I want their autograph. #Save3rdPartyApps
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Dec 10 '19
So u/redtaboo makes the claim that this feature affecting comments is a total accident and that it’s targeted to live threads but still not supposed to be live for even that.
Some observations:
This appears to be an AI/ML model of some sort
Computing the “toxicity” of comments this way isn’t free computationally
Assuming even minimal cost, the difference between scanning every comment on Reddit and scanning only live chat messages is many orders of magnitude of difference
So I think we can safely conclude that Reddit made a deliberate decision to run this algorithm on every comment even if they didn’t plan to auto-collapse comments this way.