As I'm sure most of you are aware, Reddit is now censoring Luigi's name entirely and have been giving out warnings and bans as they are considering it to be promoting violence.

I just got my first Luigi-upvote warning this morning. The best part is the bots don't tell you specifically which post or comment you upvoted to get you auto-flagged, so you have no idea how to navigate the minefield of their automated autoban system, they don't even take the posts down.. they leave them up as some sort of honeypot to flag as many people as possible to ban.

Oh no, I am sure reddit totally won't just say something like Plumber or Green instead of Luigi, making it impossible to keep auto-censoring.

On reddit Mario Bros will never be the same

Are they censoring ''player two'' ''green Mario'' ''Waluigi'' or xXBIGLOUIEXx ?

Reddit is going heavy on censoring the thought of protest. For example, I suggested throwing rotten fruit, eggs, and using a megaphone to bother JD Vance at his residence. Because, bluntly, 'polite' protest misses the whole bloody point of protest. It is all about making the people in power feel uncomfortable, and to warn them if they keep it up, people will open the 4th box.

I got banned, which will end in three days. But more importantly, it has convinced me: Reddit is controlled by those who don't understand nor value the 1st Amendment, and why it is crucial for preventing the 2nd Amendment from being exercised.

While it sucks to harass people, the alternative if things progress further is much worse.

Twitter: Gone, Reddit: Gone, Facebook: You are NEXT!

All that it’s doing is creating the Streisand effect. Heh.

I got the warning that I’m one move away from being banned from Reddit after they made these rules. It’s definitely gotten very sketchy feeling over there.

Well bye bye Reddit. It was nice to know ya.

Here comes another wave of lemmings!

Imo, this is proof of how scared the corpos are of letting him become a figurehead of the fight against them. I love it.

Oh you mean Mario’s brother‽

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

Luigi is a hero

Who's that Luigi Mangione?

Have you heard about my best pal Louis Bigeater?

Just stop using reddit to talk about chads like Luigi.

That's weird because Luigi didn't kill anyone. He's innocent.

If I wanted to promote violence, I'd praise the still unidentified murderer of Brian Thompson.

I’m here because Reddit has turned to shit. They post a rule about upvoting violence will get you banned, so upvoting a comment that says FREE LUIGI will get you banned but upvoting a video of someone getting stabbed to death or a human being turned into red paste will just be another day at the office. Let’s be real here, they only want to silence specific people without saying out loud who they want to silence.

Lu*gi

Look just because I'm in the middle of a LM/Waluigi slashfic doesn't necessarily mean I'm inciting violence. There's violence in it (Wario is an insurance exec, Luigi gets a power star, runs over Wario who explodes into coins) but I can hardly call that inciting violence. Where could someone get a power star in this day and age.

Fuck Spez.

I found an article here for anyone else looking for a source that's not just a clickbait image.

This kind of thing has been a long time coming, it's why I started looking into decentralized social media in the first place. It actually feels less dangerous today than it did before the plague of GPT bots that make everyone wary of whether they're reading something written by a human or not.

I left facebook for diaspora in the early 2010s because I felt like an algorithm could influence my opinions too easily. If I see a bunch of my friends voicing one opinion, but all of my friends who voice the opposite opinion don't make it onto my feed, that will influence my own opinions regardless of how mindful I try to be about that. I was kind of addicted and it took strength to delete my account.

I started looking for reddit alternatives a couple years later for similar reasons. I'm really glad lemmy has finally taken off but things had to get a lot worse for that to happen.

But what about Green Mario, who allegedly unalived a healthlord in Minecraft?

Exodus!

The next names to be banned are Washington and Grant. Both used violence.

Luigi is becoming more powerful as a folk hero figure by the minute.

They are banning people for up voting Luigi, even.

Is it on certain communities? Posted on prequel memes and got no such warning? Maybe the ban van is coming for me?

Pussies

I bet other platforms are likely doing something similar behind the scenes, likely pushed by the White House. When I was still working in IT Cybersecurity in 2023, we (large government defense contractors) were having to remove TikTok from all company devices at the orders of the White House/DoD, long before the larger talks of bans last year. I could see them pushing for this too, and logging the results.

Bye reddit! Glad we have this place instead. I never felt quite safe with posting there.

It feels good to cut the ties. Should have done it earlier but the second best time to do something is always now. Not worth sticking around any more after this.

Shocked to be swept up in this when I never even posted or commented on the account that was banned. It's strange because now I can't even delete the account either.

I've been referring to him as Player 2.

Its nothing new on reddit. Censorship, suspension & ban.

They should have trophies for getting flagged for breaking their rules without getting banned...

People will just use Mario's bro or whatever instead. They going to ban everything Mario related then? And if they do they'll just use Nintendo's green bro. They going to ban Nintendo from reddit then?

Pattern matching “Luigi” is the laziest form of moderation. Reddit works with a firm and has the scale that should be able to contextualize the term if needed in their content models for Violence.

Mama mia

Practically Voldemort.

Up vs. down in full swing

As far as I know, the word Luigi isn't outright banned, but it does get flagged for review.

Does it autodelete or does it flag for review?

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