r/help 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/Xaloros Oct 07 '24

Be lucky you weren’t me. My other account got banned for three days for making a post defending the death penalty, flagged for inciting violence. Thank god there was an appeal. But yeah it’s crazy.