The operator of those alleged scams went on to sue the moderator of r/Screenwriting for pinning and commenting on the posts, thus prioritizing that content. In 2019, in the subreddit r/Screenwriting, users started discussing screenwriting competitions they thought might be scams. Lee points to a case in Reddit’s recent history. “Are enough for us to suddenly become liable for something?” An “existential threat” to smaller platforms “Can we be dragged into a lawsuit, even a well-meaning lawsuit, just because we put a two-star review for a restaurant, just because like we clicked downvote or upvote on that one post, just because we decided to help volunteer for our community and start taking out posts or adding in posts?” Lee asks. As a result, a change to community moderation would likely drastically change how the site works. Though it does employ recommendation algorithms to help new users find discussions they might be interested in, much of its content recommendation system relies on these community-powered votes. Reddit currently has 50 million active daily users, according to its amicus brief, and the site sorts its content according to whether users upvote or downvote posts and comments in a discussion thread. At what point are we ourselves, because of what we did, recommending that content?” “We’re seeing other people’s content, and then we’re interacting with it. Reddit is questioning where user preferences fit, either directly or indirectly, into the interpretation of “recommendation.” “The danger is that you and I, when we use the internet, we do a lot of things that are short of actually creating the content,” says Ben Lee, Reddit’s general counsel.
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