Reddit has introduced a new warning system for users who upvote multiple items of banned content, particularly violent material. The initiative aims to minimize the exposure to harmful content on the platform. The company reassures that most users already report or downvote this type of content, and they aim to monitor the situation to avoid causing paranoia among users. Previous successes with similar measures in quarantined communities have led to the trial of this approach sitewide, with potential for future expansions of the warning system.
This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content.
We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide.
This would be an unacceptable side effect, which is why we want to monitor this closely and ramp it up thoughtfully.
Reddit may consider expanding the warnings in the future to cover repeated upvotes of other kinds of actions.
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