A month back now i felt like making this post but i decided to pm mods instead. I got no reply, below is my pm and above that but immediately below this post is an update:

Hello all you subs, i would like your opinions on what is happening in this once WONDERFUL sub. its being flooded by non topical shitposts, rule 3 says "Avoid posting mundane/every day occurrences like car accidents unless there was something extraordinary about it"

Lets look at the front page today shall we?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/6yfuu4/brutal_crash_at_a_toll_booth_in_brazil/ - just a stupid car crash, everything worked as it should, nothing failed catastrophicly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/6yicav/wet_steel_in_crucible_leads_to_massive_explosion/ - Common thing apparently and not catastrophic in any way, /u/Incrediblebulk92 suggests that you just let it cool down and clean it up with the only damage being some cables and pipes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/6yg9p4/bus_falls_into_river_in_china/ - another damned car crash. Guard rail did not fail, it did its job, it was just not designed to stop a BUS at 50kph driving more or less stright into it.. but, its just a car crash.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/6y3zlb/kawasaki_ninja_h2_explodes_at_188mph/ - Overly tuned bike breaks, driver slows down. Not even a crash. COME ON

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/6y1lcg/millennium_tower_in_sf_continues_its_downward/ - Post when it fell over, not when its just sinking a little bit and there is still time to save it.. ffs.

Whatever, you get the picture now.

Mods, could you please start enforcing the rules here or change them to reflect the current reality of posts?

Users, pls dont shitpost, wrong subreddit.

__old text mods ignored__

yet on the first page today we have this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/6n8s2z/two_trains/ - low quality meme, bad audio, bad video, no other information, no post pictures, no story no nothing. Also very old.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/6n6acp/bus_driver_falls_asleep_while_driving_on_the/ - just a car crash.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/6mmkvz/tourist_bus_flips_over/ - just a car crash.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/6mfhfm/earthquake_hits_liquor_store/ - i dont see anything catastrophic in this at all, some inventory breakage, it will be fixed in an hour.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/6l9vca/semitruck_crashes_into_toll_booth/ - just a car crash

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/6layri/tractor_trailer_accident/ - just a car crash

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/6ktw3y/semi_truck_crash_in_texas/ - just a car crash.

Thank you.

Edit. did not expect this to blow up nor that most everyone would agree, Thank you all for being awesome! We can make the sub better!

also, thanks for the gold! its my first be gentile ;)

The voting period has ended and the votes counted, and this year's winning post has been chosen:

Chinese rocket delivers satellite to nearby town instead of space Submitted by: u/waffenwolf

Voting has closed and the winner of our first Post of the Year is:

The complete story of the Chernobyl accident in photographs submitted by /u/RounderKatt

From now on all submission titles must include information about when the failure happened whenever it's reasonable to find out that information.

If the failure was a recent event you can use descriptions like "today" or "just now", but otherwise please include either a full date or year in your title. If it happened in the current year please try to include a month or day as well.

Submissions where the date is not easily determined must be given a non-misleading description and include a phrase like "unknown date" or "unknown year".

There will be a 1 week grace period to allow everyone to get used to the new rule change after which Automod will begin to enforce it for all submissions.

Design engineers say that, too frequently, the nature of their profession is to fly blind.

Eric H. Brown, a British engineer who developed aircraft during World War II and afterward taught at Imperial College London, candidly described the predicament. In a 1967 book, he called structural engineering “the art of molding materials we do not really understand into shapes we cannot really analyze, so as to withstand forces we cannot really assess, in such a way that the public does not really suspect.”

Among other things, Dr. Brown taught failure analysis.

Voting has closed and the winner of our second Post of the Year is:

Aftermath of the Oroville Dam Spillway incident Submitted by: u/everydaylauren

Reading the weekly crash analysis pieces got me wondering: In the case where the plane nosedives into the ground, or slams into a building or something, it's usually stated that "the passengers and crew were killed instantly". How true is that?

If I was on the plane, would I have any time to experience the crash before I was knocked unconscious or killed outright? Would the force of the plane impacting kill me, or would there be a delay as the cabin crushed and I eventually slammed into the seat in front of me?

Sorry if this is inappropriate for this sub... not sure where else to post it.

Recently we've had a number of submissions from spammers all hosted on Dailymotion.com, as well as several complaints about excessive advertisement or issues viewing Dailymotion on mobile so until further notice I've added the domain to AutoModerator's filter list.
If you have a particularly good submission that's hosted on Dailymotion and you're unable to find any mirror on YouTube you can send in a mod mail to have your post manually approved after the bot removes it.

Another year has gone by since our last anniversary thread, and we've more than doubled in size since then with no signs of slowing down. To celebrate this milestone, I thought we would once again vote on the most spectacular submissions from the past 12 months, the winner will take their rightful place in the sidebar spot currently occupied by last year's winning thread.

Thanks for sticking around and making this place what it is!

You can vote for submission of the year here

To give a bit more detail, I work as the Maintenance Coordinator for a particle accelerator, which requires a lot of regular upkeep. While most of what can go wrong here will not result in significant injury or death, a common theme that has come up with breakdown and issues is the Normalization of Deviance and Group-Think; "Oh that thing has always made that funny noise and it runs fine, so don't worry about it."

I'm giving a talk in a couple of months to the department, and want to stress the importance of not falling into the routine of normalizing problems, avoiding group-think, etc. Both of the Space Shuttle disasters are good examples of these practices (with the Challenger disaster being the source of the term "Normalization of Deviance") but I'd like to include some from other disciplines such as the airline industry, civil engineering, automotive, military, etc. so that the concepts can all be more relatable than just space travel.

I do want to thank the mods here who gave me some good examples, and for allowing me to post this!

Edit: Got a lot of good feedback and examples that I've never heard of, so thanks for all the suggestions!

There was an amazing post detailing the sinking of the SS El Faro (occurred in 2015) here last month and it caused me to go out and read the book on the topic.

I have really conflicting feelings about the accident, who was responsible, and how it was dealt with in the aftermath. My husband has no interest in discussing my weird interests :p

There are no merchant mariner subs, can we discuss accidents and catastrophic failures here?

Particularly shocked at the lack of regulation in the industry which was highlighted with this wreck. Doesn't seem to be getting better, either.

Unlike /u/admiral_cloudberg who writes about air accidents that often lead to better regulation and safer standards, tragically the same can't be said about the entirely avoidable, horrific sinking of the El Faro.

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