Reddit bans researchers who used AI bots to manipulate commenters
Reddit bans researchers who used AI bots to manipulate commenters Commenters on the popular subreddit r/changemymind found out last weekend that they’ve been majorly duped for months. University of Zurich researchers set out to “investigate the persuasiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) in natural online environments” by unleashing bots pretending to be a trauma counselor, […]
Reddit will let you hide ads
Reddit will let you hide ads Reddit is going rolling out a feature that lets you hide an ad from your feed for “at least a year,” the company says in a post spotted by Ars Technica. When the update is available to you, you’ll be able to see the “Hide” option for “any ads […]
A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content
A Reddit moderation tool is flagging 'Luigi' as potentially violent content A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word “Luigi” as potentially violent — even when the content isn’t. Earlier this week, a moderator from r/popculture saw Reddit’s AutoModerator system flag a post about […]
Reddit will tell you if your post breaks the rules before you publish it
Reddit will tell you if your post breaks the rules before you publish it Reddit is introducing some new features for posts that should make it easier to know if your post meets a subreddit’s rules and if it’s for the appropriate community, according to a blog post. The new Rules Check will flag a […]
Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content
Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday. “This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already […]
Digg is coming back, thanks to its founder — and Reddit’s
Digg is coming back, thanks to its founder — and Reddit's Digg is coming back, thanks to its founder — and Reddit’s The new Digg looks a lot more like 2025 than 2005. | Image: Digg Sometime last fall, Kevin Rose started thinking seriously about Digg again. A smidge over two decades ago, he’d launched […]
Reddit has recovered from another outage
Reddit has recovered from another outage Following some apparent outages on Thursday, Reddit dealt with more issues Friday evening that lasted for around two hours. Initially, when I logged in on my desktop browser during Friday’s outage, Reddit wouldn’t load at all — I would just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the […]
Reddit is experiencing outages again
Reddit is experiencing outages again Following some apparent outages yesterday, Reddit is dealing with more issues Friday evening. When logged in on my desktop browser, Reddit won’t load at all — I just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the site loads, though it seems to load slower than usual. I was also […]
Reddit is reportedly experiencing some outages
Reddit is reportedly experiencing some outages Reddit is experiencing “international outages,” NetBlocks, a global internet monitor, said in a post Thursday evening. The organization notes that the incident is “not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering. There’s also been a big spike of reports on Downdetector, with the site showing a peak of more […]
Reddit vs. Wall Street: the latest in the GameStop saga
Reddit vs. Wall Street: the latest in the GameStop saga Subreddit r/WallStreetBets has been the talk of the Internet this week, as its members have driven GameStop’s stock prices from around $20 to over $300. The community brands itself as “like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal,” and as time has gone on, it’s targeted other […]