Reddit claims the auomated process was to stop doxxing - in other words reddit seems to be claiming they have a bot which scans the content of posts for an employees name.
By way of a really dumb algorithm with really dumb governance.
It surprises me how much bad stuff is allowed to run without oversight.
It’s perfectly cool to experiment with code and try new things to see if it works. It’s stupid to do that with real things like the “Article Banner” or whatever Reddit has.
I’m sure there’s lots of complexity but I suspect there’s a decision being made to let things run and they haven’t set up the right checks and balances to see if it’s working.
If an established account has a submission flagged and blocked that should be really rare and either require a human to check it out, or to allow it and flag it for review.
Reddit gets tons of spam, I’m certain, but it’s probably not from real accounts or from sources that have a long history of their content being submitted without flags.
If a newspaper’s article is blocked automatically because the rule is too stupid, that’s too high impact of a failure condition.
My suspicion is that because Aimee is transgender, they expected anti-transgender comments about her and were thus more eager with "anti-doxxing" filters.
You still get auto banned for mentioning the name of a reddit admin, someone who not only works at reddit but was involved in political parties so you would assume they are considered a political figure. Some default subreddits have opted to go private in protest. They are seeing it as blatant censorship.
