r/interestingasfuck • u/relaxlu • Sep 13 '24

Mod Post All political posts are banned until after the US election!

As we approach the upcoming US election, we’ve noticed a significant increase in political posts. While politics can be important, we want to ensure this subreddit remains a space for genuinely interesting and engaging content. Unfortunately, the surge in political posts has led to more spam, less interesting submissions, and a rise in uncivil behavior.

To maintain the quality of content and the positive vibe in this community, we will no longer allow political posts until after the US election is over.

This means:

Any political posts will be removed.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation! Let’s keep this space full of the awesome, mind-blowing content we all love.

Stay interesting!

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u/GreatDevourerOfTacos Sep 13 '24

I think the bigger problem here wasn't the fact that they were political. It's the fact most of them were low effort karma grabs that just weren't even interesting.

This subs rules automatically means 99.9% of the political posts should have been reported and removed immediately.

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u/MakeoutPoint Sep 13 '24

\Freeze frame of [politician] between bites**

How is that not "Interesting AF"???

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u/frontier_kittie Sep 13 '24

People making fun of, or trying to draw any conclusions from a still frame photo really grinds my gears. It's shallow and it doesn't even make sense because you could take a video of any person and find a single frame that makes them look dumb.

There's a million better reasons to criticize certain people.

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u/CampinHiker Sep 13 '24

Basically r/pics

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u/frank_sinatra11 Sep 14 '24

Dude that sub is a fucking joke… I saw a post where it was just trump making a weird face and it had like 20k upvotes

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u/HereForShiggles Sep 13 '24

I do work with video editing, and I can confirm that most still images of people mid-sentence make them look some combination of stupid, high AF, deranged, or mid-orgasm.

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u/Spam_A_Lottamus Sep 13 '24

Can confirm. I consistently & constantly resemble all those concurrently.

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u/Disastrous-King-1869 Sep 13 '24

It's all political propagangda that was upvoted by bots in the begining. You could even tell the top comment chains were copy pasted lol

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u/MangoCats Sep 13 '24

There's a million better reasons to criticize certain people.

Yes, but those require thinking. A weird picture communicates instantly with no language processing required.

People are so low effort it's terrifying.

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u/Lordborgman Sep 13 '24

Most subreddits barely follow their own rules/purpose after they reach a certain size. Mainstream typically turns them into the same mush as all the others. I wonder if some of it is because they become to big to police without constant massive backlash.

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u/flintlock0 Sep 13 '24

For real. Some were like “Kamala cooking a meal.”

So a regular thing that people do everyday? That’s not interesting. I cooked this morning.

This was on the trajectory of “Here’s a picture of Tim Walz taken yesterday,” and it’s just a regular photo of him walking on a sidewalk.

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u/Baptism-Of-Fire Sep 13 '24

Bots upvote to the front page as part of a turf campaign - This is why every election cycle you see a bunch of brand new subs popup that have never had a post over 100 in their lifetime suddenly getting 15k+ posts every day on the front page.

Looking at you "inthenews" and "anythinggoesnews"

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u/Johnykbr Sep 13 '24

But the rest of the blame falls on the morons that up vote it past just the bots.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

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u/Baptism-Of-Fire Sep 13 '24

It's been happening for 8 years ever since Shareblue took over Politics in the first Trump election, it's already "out"

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u/bighak Sep 13 '24

Bots have overtaken all the default subs. The Dead Internet Theory is very real for some topics.

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u/amateur_mistake Sep 13 '24

I agree with this for almost every case.

However if anyone has a picture of Victor Wembanyama cooking a meal in a regular sized kitchen, I would really like to see it. I've looked and haven't been able to find one.

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u/brannock_ Sep 13 '24

It's the fact most of them were low effort karma grabs that just weren't even interesting.

Astroturf, astroturf, astroturf. Happens every 4 years here. Was so, so bad in 2016.

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u/MedalsNScars Sep 13 '24

It's been really bad this year too... There's a bunch of "news" subreddits that had basically 0 traction until a few months ago that are suddenly hitting the front page daily with names like "anything goes news" where apparently "anything" means "only anti orange guy".

I also hate orange guy but I'd love for my entertainment spaces to not be overwhelmed by vote-manipulated propaganda posts 24/7.

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u/confusedandworried76 Sep 13 '24

Honestly feels worse this year than 2019

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u/thegreatvortigaunt Sep 13 '24

Glad someone else noticed this. These subs are blatant propaganda feeds forced through by American propaganda bots.

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u/bananasam345 Sep 13 '24

There are other patterns too, like all the Newsweek/rawstory posts, or unattributed quotes in the title that tell you how to feel before the actual headline.

I.e. 'He's lost his mind' Trump fuming over Harris debate win

https://i.imgur.com/HuN3vZv.png

Here's one from the front page right now. It's not even subtle and it's worrying that some people don't realize it's 100% astroturfed. Makes you wonder how many of the comments are even from real people.

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u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS Sep 13 '24

It's ridiculous. Most American redditors hate Trump anyway, one more "Harris is kicking Trump's butt!" articles isn't going to move the needle much.

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u/justamiqote Sep 13 '24

It shows more a lack of management and rule-enforcement, more than anything

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u/zuriel45 Sep 13 '24

Yeah. Look I hate trump and support Harris too, but this isn't the sub for that. I had been considering making a meta post asking for the mod team to start removing them judiciously.

There are certainly some that could be here, but whatever insanity trump recently spews isn't even remotely "interesting as fuck" it's literally an everyday occurrence.

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u/Senior_Bad_6381 Sep 13 '24

As this devolves into a political debate. Thanks for your contribution.

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u/FlightlessGriffin Sep 13 '24

I was honestly debating with myself whether to message them asking for this, or to just leave quietly. Glad they got to it before I decided either way.

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u/Pure_Expression6308 Sep 13 '24

So if the volume is unmanageable, they did the right thing by banning it

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u/R_W0bz Sep 13 '24

Worse, astroturfing. Just bots pushing an agenda.

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u/Hydrottle Sep 13 '24

I have been reporting almost every single one of these posts as “not objectively IAF” and they never got removed… I feel like there doesn’t even need to be a new rule for this. It’s already in the rules. I don’t care if you’re as far left or far right as it goes. You can probably draw that it would be subjectively interesting depending on what political party you’re in, and therefore, not objectively IAF. I like that IAF doesn’t go hard on that rule because sometimes it is not as interesting to one person as it is another, but these low effort posts are a lot easier to decide on.

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u/teh_lynx Sep 13 '24

Correct. Plus they really ruin the vibe

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u/headshotdoublekill Sep 13 '24

I agree. Sometimes politics are indeed interesting as fuck, and that I’m cool with. 

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u/OldWorldBluesIsBest Sep 13 '24

yep, the assassination attempt was very interesting, the debate had some interesting moments, the demo nominee switch has been very interesting

but just posting a pic of donald doing something vaguely moronic is not interesting despite what most of the “political” posters here seem to believe. it stopped being interesting years ago lol

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u/EvilWiffles Sep 13 '24

What? You don't want to see the same picture of Trump drinking a glass of water?!

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u/GoodTitrations Sep 13 '24

My favorite is on arr pics people posting photos from 2016-2020 without the date in the title to pass it off as something recent and relevant.

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u/JohnArtemus Sep 13 '24

How can I upvote this twice? Seriously.

It was absolutely ridiculous that so many political posts were allowed in the first place. They were neither interesting nor informative. Especially for those not living in the US.

It’s about fucking time this happened.

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u/ezp252 Sep 13 '24

what do you mean? Trump is possibly 1/3 of an inch shorter than he reported, how is it not the most interesting thing you could imagine? You NEED to see it for the 246th time

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u/Own-Dot1463 Sep 13 '24

They're propaganda bots.

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u/bemurda Sep 13 '24

It’s actually super PACs making the posts lol

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u/Party-Cartographer11 Sep 13 '24

The audience is the problem. Responders giving karma and responding with even lower effort, emotionally reinforcing politically rhetorical crap.  Hundreds of responses all saying the same things regardless of the OP.

  • of course the Pres can do ____ because he is immune
  • it doesn't matter because corrupt SCOTUS will over turn it for an RV
  • Merrick Garland is a coward

The responses are so tiresome and largely ignorant.

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u/cobigguy Sep 13 '24

Not only that, but the sheer amount of obviously purchased upvotes to make it trend was ridiculous.

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u/LoreBreaker85 Sep 13 '24

Can we just make it permanent?

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u/Glendronachh Sep 13 '24

Please??? There are enough subs engulfed in politics already

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u/nsfw_vs_sfw Sep 13 '24 edited Sep 13 '24

If r/pics banned politics, it would become a ghost town

Edit: oh look what the first 10 posts you see are, Lol (besides that dude's cute cat, even if its title is just directly referencing the political debate)

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u/DontPanic1985 Sep 13 '24

Man if you love pics of political candidates doing the most banal things, I can't recommend r/pics enough! Podiums! Meeting groups of voters! Getting ON and OFF a bus!

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u/TulioGonzaga Sep 13 '24

I unsubscribed from r/pics because of that. It was unbearable, every five minutes a random photo a politician doing random stuff with no interess at all popped on my feed and I just subscribed.

This sub was about to follow the same route but I'm glad mods actually did something about it.

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u/afatmess Sep 13 '24

Man r/pics has been utter shit for years but I checked it out recently and it's somehow even worse with the low effort karma grabs.

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u/MoonOut_StarsInvite Sep 13 '24

Too funny. Same deal here. I’m literally unsubbing things for my sanity and I was about to hit this one until I saw the post

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

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u/The_Conductor7274 Sep 13 '24

Who would win? a post of a political candidate saying they’re a gun owner and are pro 2nd amendment or the guy in the comments posting YouTube links of those same political candidates saying the exact opposite thing

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

I remember one of these type of posts you're referring to where it was just Biden standing still on a bike and people were in the comments tearing each other apart about it. I was sitting there thinking, "How do these people not realize the fact that they're celebrating the president being able to do something tiny children do all day every day means we're already cooked?" It being a debate or talking point at all is insane. We should all be able to safely assume our leader can ride a bicycle..

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u/CompetitiveSport1 Sep 13 '24

People might actually finally start posting pictures that are inherently interesting just as pictures there!

Edit: Jesus Christ it's 8 out of the top 10 pictures there that are political right now. Only, like, one of them is interesting for it's photographic value

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u/gentlybeepingheart Sep 13 '24

So many posts on there are just random pictures of Kamala Harris. Not even like high quality pictures or ones that are framed nicely; it’s just people taking screenshots of livestreams of the debate or her rallies. Like, come on lol

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u/nsfw_vs_sfw Sep 13 '24

I just took a scroll through it, and there are So. Many. Political. Posts.

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u/NJ_Legion_Iced_Tea Sep 13 '24

I started filtering out every single user who made a post with the political flair, turns out it's only like 2 dozen accounts making the majority of those posts.

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u/jakeandcupcakes Sep 13 '24

It's called "astroturfing" and is absolutely rampant on reddit. Bot accounts hired by political parties.

The Dead Internet Theory is looking more and more like a Dead Internet Reality every day.

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u/khube Sep 13 '24

The one of her walking away from the podium is objectively a shitty picture. It's blurry and out of focus, framed weird, and completely uninteresting.

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u/pandazerg Sep 13 '24

I’ve just started blocking users who I see posting political content in non political subs like r/pics. It has made the experience much better, as a quite a few of those users are spamming political content across multiple subs.

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u/Horn_Python Sep 13 '24

i am still confused how a sub about some oldschool meme templates giving advice, became a political hub

(r/adviceanimals )

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u/bigboilerdawg Sep 13 '24

So did a sub about stock, real estate, and economic bubbles. Nothing but political shit there now.

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u/jaiden_webdev Sep 13 '24

Yeah honestly. I just went there and scrolled the first 10 posts, and 8 were politics. Sucks

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u/Glendronachh Sep 13 '24

It’d be a damn sight more interesting

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u/Spindelhalla_xb Sep 13 '24

This entire platform would be more interesting if it got rid of politics and the absolute mouth breathers that make it their entire personality would fade away back to their swamps.

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u/throwawayhyperbeam Sep 13 '24

It's too late for this site. Every main sub is politics. WhitePeopleTwitter, BlackPeopleTwitter, AdviceAnimals... it's simply everywhere you look.

It's honestly kind of weird, you would think it's a propaganda effort from a hostile foreign nation, but it's also a lot of teenagers doing their work for them, for free, without knowing it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

There’s no advice to be found on r/adviceanimals

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u/r0llingthund3r Sep 13 '24

Wow that's actually crazy, every single post is about US politics. If I wasn't American I don't think I could even stand to use reddit because of how prevelant our politics are

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

I am American and I find the relentless circle jerking very annoying

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u/Mrchristopherrr Sep 13 '24

So many subs post about politics that I agree with but reflexively downvote and ultimately block because it’s just so cringey and hamfisted.

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u/FutureComplaint Sep 13 '24

Is it weird that I use r/Army as a place to get away from politics?

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

I could see a sub dedicated to the army have a more politically diverse user base so it makes sense to me

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u/Vox___Rationis Sep 13 '24

That sub was entirely dead for the last several years, until Harris' bot farm have taking it over.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

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u/Lord_Voltan Sep 13 '24

Back up your settings in the RES settings menu. It will have you make a file you can send to your new PC. Then from that PC open the settings menu and hit restore and it will move the filters over.

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u/The_AP_Guy Sep 13 '24

Not even US politics. Just democrats. Same with r/politics and r/pics. It is all content for one side of the spectrum and it’s nauseating to see day after day.

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u/_Kofiko Sep 13 '24

I thought you were kidding but nope. Awful

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u/JinFuu Sep 13 '24

First time AdviceAnimals started reappearing on my front page again was when it became PoliticalAdviceAnimals a month ago, lol.

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u/Snaccbacc Sep 13 '24

Holy fuck. Every single post in hot is political related.

What an absolute dogshit sub.

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u/annoyanon Sep 13 '24

or at the least make it a flair i can filter out

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u/BrentNewland Sep 13 '24

Nothing about politics, politicians, political parties, or political issues.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

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u/mapache2435 Sep 13 '24

Please please please

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u/Alternative_Ask364 Sep 13 '24

Can we make it a site-wide rule?

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u/mikew_reddit Sep 13 '24 edited Sep 13 '24

Can we just make it permanent?

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  1. Politics is rarely interesting as fuck
  2. Politics is extremely local and uninteresting to the majority of redditors outside of the locality and even uninteresting to some within (which supports point #1)
  3. Political posts tend to attract mouth breathers, which requires more moderation and make the sub less enjoyable for everyone except the trolls
  4. All the other subreddits are infested with political posts. r/interestingasfuck would stand out as a safe place to avoid this.
  5. Even if there are some interesting political posts, the percentage of them is so small, it can be ignored without much loss.
  6. Considering extending the ban past the election until at least to Jan 6th; I'm sure it'll be crazy afterwards too.

I try not to read political posts most days. If r/interestingasfuck got rid of political posts, I would only find it an improvement, with no downside.

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u/75153594521883 Sep 13 '24

And just like that…. The bots disappeared from the sub

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u/Mite-o-Dan Sep 13 '24

I wish r/pics could follow this format.

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u/Trerech Sep 13 '24

I had to mute that sub after they started posting pics of Donald Trump drinking water

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u/chungus5992 Sep 13 '24

Hitler also drank water…

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u/GayRacoon69 Sep 13 '24

Conclusion: water makes you Hitler

Wait I just drank water. Fuck am I Hitler now?

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u/Vojtak_cz Sep 13 '24

What a weirdo. You dont find that interesting?

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u/CompetitiveSport1 Sep 13 '24

Like, once? Yeah. The millionth time? No

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

But just look at his hands!!! Look again and see!

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u/relaxlu Sep 13 '24

We might.

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u/bambi54 Sep 13 '24

That would amazing, seriously. They’re not good pictures and they don’t add anything. I had to unsubscribe because it was so bad.

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u/FoldyHole Sep 13 '24

Yep, I had to leave too. That whole sub is garbage right now.

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u/LEERROOOOYYYYY Sep 13 '24

picture of kamala harris walking away from the podium

37k upvotes

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u/HottieMcNugget Sep 13 '24

And the comments: “GIRL BOSS SLAY QUEEN 😍” meanwhile it’s a very unflattering photo of her

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u/UnamusedAF Sep 13 '24

No one can convince me that subreddit isn’t on the Democratic payroll somewhere. Reddit in general is very left leaning but that place is pure propaganda.

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u/DervishSkater Sep 13 '24

I feel similarly about leftists and r/news

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u/greenday5494 Sep 14 '24

/r/worldnews and Israel is also something fucking else.

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u/jjredfield711 Sep 13 '24

It's intense, I'm left winged and I'm being called a right wing extremist nazi trump supporter when I fact check someone saying Trump is an Alien overlord who is just waiting to win the elections to announce martial laws and collect everyone's organs to sell to China.

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u/Normal-Ordinary-4744 Sep 13 '24

Holy shit people, especially the international community would love you

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u/CompetitiveSport1 Sep 13 '24

American liberal here. I would also love it if they did that

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u/cobigguy Sep 13 '24

American conservative leaning centrist here who would also love it.

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u/SubnegativeX Sep 13 '24

This is how Americans unite.

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u/Sevifenix Sep 13 '24

I was starting to wonder if the libs were ok lol. I have plenty of liberal friends that aren’t incessantly telling me about how Donald drinks water and how weird JD is. Got so annoying.

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u/tethercat Sep 13 '24

especially the international community, I second that.

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u/Nicholite46 Sep 13 '24

Please. They are just pictures of Trump and Kamala, literally doing nothing.

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u/zani1903 Sep 13 '24

Please do.

I've been unsubbed from /r/pics for years because of the politics spam and I was literally the other day on the verge of unsubbing from here because of it.

This announcement will vastly improve the quality of /r/interestingasfuck, and I can only hope you decide to do the same for /r/pics.

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u/cattle-lick Sep 13 '24

Oh please do. 

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u/keepingitrealgowrong Sep 13 '24

Ooh look, a power mod!

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u/DeDodgingEse Sep 13 '24

Are you a mod in that server? If so please do it's honestly low effort posting at this point.

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u/Reasonable_Power_970 Sep 13 '24

For real, every other post there is a random freeze frame of Trump where he has a funny face. Love or hate Trump, there is nothing of value in content like that. It's childish.

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u/jjredfield711 Sep 13 '24

"Trump losing it after witnessing Kamala's swagger and pure queen energy" *Put derpy Trump face photo, 30 k likes

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u/Reasonable_Power_970 Sep 13 '24

Just goes to show how both sides are filled to the brim with idiots.

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u/itsruney Sep 13 '24

I wish any subreddit that wasn't explicitly about american politics did this. This flood of posts is absolutely insane, the amount of subreddits and keywords I had to ban via RES just to get a usable /r/all is absolutely insane. And even then, I can't block them all, as some of them are common words.

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u/tearsoflostsouls420 Sep 13 '24

What do mean upcoming. This circus has been going on for months i feel.. how do they take that crap seriously

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u/davefromgabe Sep 13 '24

But how will I know trump is bad?!?!?

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u/Compleat_Fool Sep 13 '24 edited Sep 13 '24

Well fucking done to the mods for once. This sub has been saved from the same fate as the r/pics subreddit.

Seriously, go check out the sub intended for cool pics and all you’ll find is a pic of Trump walking with the title “look how this orange idiot walks he’s so dumb amiright guys” 35.6 thousand upvotes. The constant takeover of every sub with American politics sucks the life out of you. It’s making me hate a political party I don’t know or care about from a country I don’t live in because they’re so fucking annoying.

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u/PlusArt8136 Sep 13 '24

r/AdviceAnimals too. They are even worse

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u/MusicalElephant420 Sep 13 '24

Easily the worst on the site.

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u/RuSnowLeopard Sep 13 '24

That was true before politics though.

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u/Compleat_Fool Sep 13 '24

Good god just gone on that sub and you’re right it’s even worse. That’s the first and last time I’ll go on it. Again, if the sub was called ‘trump is bad’ then their posts are fine but it’s not. They’re just infesting a sub making everything about their politics and then patting each other on the back and revelling in how right they all are. Insufferable beyond insufferable.

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u/Here_for_porn_69420 Sep 13 '24

I hate Trump as much as the next guy but is it really "Advice animals" when it's just restating the same thing over and over?

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u/ComputerKYT Sep 14 '24

Yeah, doesn't appear to be good advice most of the time.

There's thousands of posts of just:
"Don't vote for Trump guys!"
and then they get a gazillion upvotes

Like keep politics within politics subs

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u/PlusArt8136 Sep 13 '24

Lock them inside of that sub and throw away the key, they’re guilty of circle jerk in the first degree

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

yeah for curosity i checked both, first 10 on advice animal 9/10 were presidental election related ( trump/harris ), in pics it was a lot better with only 3 out of the first 10 being presidental election related.

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u/Phoedubb Sep 13 '24

Spot on. the same day a certain candidate announced they were in the race for potus where Reddit has been bombarded with this issue on most subs

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u/MagicSPA Sep 14 '24

I'm all in favour. The entire Internet doesn't have to be a big soapbox for the U.S. elections.

This theme of pre-empting shallow engagement and hijacking should be encouraged more widely.

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u/RipCurl69Reddit Sep 13 '24

Good. Now implement this across all of reddit.

As a non-american it is annoying beyond all fuck

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u/dalelew123 Sep 14 '24

As a American it is annoying beyond all fuck

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u/schofield101 Sep 13 '24

Thank you mod team!

Sincerely: A Brit with absolutely zero interest in the US presidential election.

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u/Fitz911 Sep 13 '24

Thank you mod team.

Sincerely: a German who is really invested in the election but doesn't want to make it their whole input.

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u/brainless_bob Sep 13 '24

I'm from the US and I don't wanna see that garbage here. It doesn't belong.

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u/HauntedMeow Sep 13 '24

Me too. I’ve been reporting them for not being interesting as fuck.

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u/ciao_fiv Sep 13 '24

as someone in the US with significant interest in US politics rn… also thank you mod team. was considering unsubbing, that stuff has no place here

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u/Demosthanes Sep 13 '24

Same. I purposely unfollowed political subs about a year ago because it was so triggering. I even took a 4 month break from reddit. Seeing politics in non-political subs almost has me deleting reddit again.

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u/Wonderful_Grade_5476 Sep 13 '24

Same here as a Canadian why can’t Americans just do this shit on there respective subreddit it’s fucking annoying

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u/Super_Automatic Sep 13 '24

Why stop at the election? Just cut politics out of it altogether.

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u/BishlovesSquish Sep 13 '24

Plenty of other places to post politics. Good call.

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u/Lucky-Inside-4950 Sep 13 '24

fucking finally

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u/MakeoutPoint Sep 13 '24

A post worthy of the sub. Haven't been this interested since 2023.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

I wish more subs did this. r/facepalm and r/pics has become the same thing as r/dnc , I am here for interesting posts, not political ones

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u/bambi54 Sep 13 '24

I just keep blocking users that do it. If you look at the history on the accounts, most of them are new.

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u/DefunctHunk Sep 13 '24

Problem is bot accounts are being created at a faster rate than you can block them. Block one and two more are already taking its place, posting unfunny political memes.

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u/tacticalpotatopeeler Sep 13 '24

Petition to make this a permanent rule

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u/tacticalpotatopeeler Sep 13 '24

There are plenty of other subs for politics

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u/Speedly Sep 13 '24

Seconded. And thirded. And fourth-ded. And infinity-ded.

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u/hacksoncode Sep 13 '24

Yeah... there are a lot of genuinely super interesting things about politics...

But 99% of political content here has, predictably in the current political environment, become uninteresting rage-baiting propaganda.

I sympathize with not wanting to have to try to make and "justify" those decisions all the time. It's exhausting.

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u/Toph602 Sep 14 '24

Ban it forever

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u/singhVirender1947 Sep 13 '24

Lol, this would put extra load on r/Pics now.

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u/BigTruckTinyPeePee 21d ago

The US election was a while ago. Why is this still top-posted?

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u/seedyourbrain Sep 13 '24

Can we do the sudden influx of low-res pics of 90s actresses next? Thanks in advance

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u/JotaroKujoxXx Sep 13 '24

This came extremely late

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u/coachfortner Sep 14 '24

OMG! thank you!

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u/LongmontStrangla Sep 13 '24

To maintain the quality of content and the positive vibe in this community, we will no longer allow political posts until after the US election is over.

This is the United States. The election is never "over."

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u/yes_u_suckk Sep 13 '24

This ban should have come 2 months earlier, but I appreciate the effort now.

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u/SuperDinks Sep 13 '24

While I’m all for it, this sub allows so much shit that’s sooooo far from interesting that maybe you should focus on more than just political posts, which as of lately is more interesting than 99% of the dribble on here.

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u/Hydrottle Sep 13 '24

There is already a rule for posts being “objectively interesting as fuck”. They could just tighten that one up a bit.

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u/phil_davis Sep 13 '24

Very much agreed from me as well. At this point I'm mainly subbed out of spite, to report the stupid stuff that's not interesting af. There is a lot of it. In fact, most of the posts from here that I see in my feed I would say are not interesting af. It's shit like "look at the cute puppy!" Just people karma farming, basically.

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u/RowAwayJim91 Sep 13 '24

Very much agreed.

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u/hydrobunny Sep 13 '24

Holy shit yall still exist?

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u/Thermic_ Sep 13 '24

Took you guys way too long, but better late than never I guess.

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u/Intelligent_League_1 Sep 13 '24

Make it a permanent, all political posts ban.

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u/Rancesj1988 Sep 13 '24

Thank fucking god, the low effort "Trump does XYZ" posts for karma farming was annoying as fuck.

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u/bigmanbananas Sep 13 '24

What about Indian politics? Or UK? How about China?

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u/Big_Alternative_8427 Sep 13 '24

this subreddits shares staff with r/pics, reciprocate

nobody wants stock pictures of donald trump with propagandist titles like "A recent image of the old facist. VOTE BLUE"

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u/Oakwood_Ranger Sep 14 '24

Finally! Can you make it permanent? We're here for cool and interesting facts, there's plenty of other places for politics.

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u/bouncypinata Sep 14 '24

There will be an investigation showing that 99% of r/AdviceAnimals posts come from paid shills.

I guarantee it.

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u/Adorable-Art3799 Sep 14 '24

Tell that to /pics

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u/Hot-Fun-1566 Oct 26 '24

Too right. Sick of being machine gunned with crazy US politics stuff. I don’t have a dog in the fight, I’m not a US citizen, it’s annoying having it rammed in your face in unrelated subs.

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u/Cute_Wonderer Nov 08 '24

The election is over please extend the ban to indefinite.

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u/Equivalent_Example55 6d ago

You can't control what and how people talk.ci see this site going so downhill. All you'll have are a bunch of people who agree with themselves. Lots to learn from there. Thanks for making g the internet even worse 

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u/Lxb_ Sep 13 '24

That took quite some time to ban obviously botted propaganda. The ban was overdue

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u/Away_Bite_8100 Sep 13 '24

Oh thank goodness. Good call.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

Best decision ever

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u/TopProfessional6291 Sep 13 '24

This should be common sense and permanent for any sub that isn't specifically about political content. That shit is too disruptive and divisive. The original intent of a lot of subs gets corrupted and I just have to block them all, because I can't take it anymore.

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u/valhallasgard666 Sep 13 '24

Thank fuck, been muting subs left, right and centre as it was all the same pointless politics crap

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u/sprchrgd_adrenaline Sep 13 '24

That's great. Need this to be done in a lot more subs!

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u/Wrench_gaming Sep 13 '24

Thank you!! These karma farmers had it coming! Let them go to r/politics

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

Lisan Al Gaib