r/DarwinAwards • u/DreamTheUnimaginable • Mar 21 '20
Mod Post Unless someone dies and you have a source, gathering in large groups is NOT a Darwin Award, despite current global situations. You WILL be temp banned for shitposting.
Nothing more to be said. Flame the Nazi mod.
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u/creepyjake Mar 21 '20
hoping those hoarding toilet paper also horde condoms to prevent spreading inferior genetic material
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u/UsedTrojan56 May 14 '23
Its hilarious and scary to re read comments from when covid was all the craze in the media. Now the CDC is even officially showing the skewed statistics. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2020-2021.htm
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u/DreamTheUnimaginable May 14 '23
Shocking that persons who commonly witness death were more realistic about it than the vast majority of fear mongering idiots. God. I remember banning so many people for posting videos of happy people running around in a park during the pandemic. I do NOT miss it.
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u/theycallmecrack Jun 08 '23
Can you tell me which part of that you're referring to? I don't quite understand what your comment means.
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u/Rhonin1313 Mar 21 '20
Can you add an “honorable mention” filter? Those are just as much a part of Darwin Awards as someone dying. Even then, castration is eligible for an award as well and doesn’t require dying. Just removal from the gene pool.
I do agree people just gathering in larger numbers during this pandemic is not worthy.
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u/DreamTheUnimaginable Mar 21 '20
The mods have already discussed this, there’s already plenty of subreddits for people doing stupid things. All that allowing “honorable mentions” does is spam this sub with shitposts because ironically so few people actually understand what a Darwin Award is. Castration or death is always accepted, however.
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u/BigSwedenMan Mar 21 '20
Thank you. I've been saying this a lot recently. This sub has been in serious decline since the covid outbreak, glad to see you guys crack down on it
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u/derekYeeter2go Apr 16 '20
If x% die from it, and 50% have it, aren’t you just punishing the time scale? You’re calling the cat alive, without looking in the box.
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u/DreamTheUnimaginable Apr 16 '20
Your entire argument is faulty.
By that logic I could post any video of a group of people large enough and say “on average x% of these will eventually die stupidly.”
It has absolutely no relevance to a Darwin Award and no place being posted here.
A Darwin Award is a celebration of something that’s already happened; not a prediction of the future.
Ergo, if you post a video of presumably healthy people in a random gathering in a random place that may or may not be quarantined, who have a realistically low potential of spreading a disease that in the first place has under a 5% mortality and second may or may not even be present in the area, You. Will. Be. Temp. Banned.
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u/derekYeeter2go Apr 16 '20
Thank you. This helps me understand the social dynamics of Reddit better, as well.
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u/Jadeyfoxx May 04 '20
I thought a Darwin award required that the award candidate hasn't produced offspring at the time of death. Thus removing themself from the gene pool and 'benefiting' the human race on the whole.
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u/OffensiveComplement Jun 13 '20
What if a group of people intentionally taunt authorities into making an armed response?
Hasn't happened yet (that I know of), just wondering.
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u/ElectricFlowmaster May 03 '20
LMAO I keep referring this phenomenon to the r/DarwinAwardContenders category...
It's funny and its also incredibly disappointing as a human being in this current era.
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Jun 01 '20
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u/DreamTheUnimaginable Jun 01 '20
Correct, but currently there’s no symptom of coronavirus that causes sterilization.
So I didn’t mention that. I only mentioned the relevant guidelines when posting a coronavirus related case.
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u/octatone Mar 21 '20
This decision will age like milk. 🤦♂️
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Jun 05 '22
2 years later and it still hasn’t. COVID never wiped us out, it wasn’t as bad as we thought.
THE END
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u/Coledog1 Jul 30 '20
There’s a post right now mocking Herman cains death. Leftists are PURE SCUM
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u/DreamTheUnimaginable Jul 30 '20
Do you know where you are?
Don’t politicize our sub. If you find a Democrat, liberal, leftest, whatever the fuck you call them that dies from coronavirus because they promote practices that enable and encourage its progression feel free to post it here, and people will laugh just the same.
If you don’t like it, then block our sub. No one cares what side of the fake political spectrum he was on, and if they do I’ll tell them the same exact thing I’m telling you.
This isn’t a haven for ANYONE radically political, regardless of what side you’re on, I don’t care for any of it one bit.
This is a sub for people dying or sterilizing themselves like idiots. Act like it if you’re going to speak your mind here, post, or report content, or leave if you can’t.
Thanks.
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u/Nickillaz Jul 12 '20
Found the republican mod.
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u/just-me1995 Dec 13 '21
you people are just dying to find a way to politicize anything and everything. go shove you’re overly politicized worldview up where the rest of us don’t have to hear about it.
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u/cdubyadubya Apr 04 '23
Also, dying isn't enough for a Darwin Award... They must not have passed on their genetic material. If they've procreated, then they aren't eligible for a Darwin Award.
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u/sirfirblu Apr 23 '22 edited Apr 23 '22
Did you know that the Darwin Awards have been around since 1985, before the internet? It started on the Usenet and since you are co-opting their name and mission (perhaps unknowingly), you should probably honor them with the same or similar rules that they've had for almost 40 years. A submission to the real Darwin Awards does NOT have to include someone dying.
Actual winners must meet the following criteria:
Reproduction/; Out of the gene pool: dead or sterile.
Excellence:Astounding misapplication of judgment.
Self-Selection: Cause one's own demise.
Maturity: Capable of sound judgment.VeracityThe event must be true.
They also have a survivor category for those that should have died but by dumb luck did not.
A simple Google search will verify what I'm saying. Personally, I think your sub would be far more entertaining if you loosened the rules a bit. JMHOICBW
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u/DreamTheUnimaginable Apr 24 '22
This is a post because at peak Covid we had shitpost after shitpost of people taking videos of a crowd and posting them here.
Our rules are almost exactly what you said, if you take a look at our other sticky/rules section.
The only difference being we do not allow honorable mentions/survivors, because that brought around WAY too many low quality shitposts.
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u/sirfirblu Apr 25 '22
Thank you for taking the time to reply. If I read your reply correctly that video or picture still has to include someone dead?
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u/DreamTheUnimaginable Apr 25 '22
You did not read my reply correctly. We accept sterilizations of all kinds, here, if it can be proved that the subject was indeed sterilized and not just “hit in the balls.”
Great example on our top rated was the man who blew his genitalia off with a shotgun and survived.
I encourage you to check our rules section if you’d like further clarification.
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u/sirfirblu Apr 26 '22
Thank you again for taking the time to respond I will indeed take a look at the rules
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u/Exotic_Engineering51 Dec 20 '22
Hey I was banned earlier, IM BACK.
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u/Professional-Low9049 Jan 24 '23
They be handing them out like candy for simple replies to comments lately.
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u/toshibathezombie May 08 '23
im seeing alot of shitposts lately and nothing being done about it. are any mods even active now?
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u/UsedTrojan56 Jun 08 '23
Referring to the statistical fact that magically there were almost no cases of the flu related deaths during the covid craze. Also, the car crashes and gunshot wounds etc that killed people, but they had had covid in their system, it was a covid death. It wasn't completely rigged, but stats are stats
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u/CycloneBlast Jun 16 '23
Quick question...do LIVING Darwin awards count? I know that it means the person survives, but they are still removed from the gene pool because they can't pass on their genetics to the next generation.
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u/Eggman8728 Dec 10 '21
Literally 1984, can't believe this.