r/help • u/scaramangaf • Oct 06 '24

Reddit automated punishment?

Contributing member of the Reddit community here.

I have received "Your account has been given a warning" for "threatened violence and physical harm".

This is absolute nonsense and I am waiting to hear back on an "apeal".

But the part that is troublesome is that the punishment was automated:

At the bottom of the message:

“Note: This content was flagged by Reddit's automated systems. This decision was made using automation.”

So I am being punished with a warning by an automated system??

How does this make any sense?

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u/A-D808 Oct 07 '24

Reddit is literally moderated/controlled discussion. I got banned from r/inflation because I mentioned they changed the way they calculate unemployment within the last few years. I have no more faith in reddit even tho I still enjoy it more than twitter.

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u/scaramangaf Oct 07 '24

To punish the people who are generating content on your platform has got to be one of the dumbest things you can do. Sure, it won't register initially but over time, it will corrode the place the same as termites in a house.