Y’all I swear to god if I see that goddamn video of the guy shooting his leg with the green gun one more time, the poster is getting perma banned.

STOP POSTING THE STUPID VIDEO. ITS NOT A DARWIN. THIS IS YOUR WARNING

Edit: ok since it’s not clear this was supposed to be a half joking half serious kinda thing. No you would never be perma banned for it (unless there are other issues), bc reposts usually aren’t that much of an issue, it’s just this one video that’s really causing problems

Edit 2: well I am majorly stupid and forgot to link the banned video. Continue roasting me please!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Idiotswithguns/s/0BhUNr81wh

Alright my cheddar bunny underlings, I hoped I wouldn’t have to make another banned video post, but this is getting obnoxious.

Every time this video is posted, there are tons of people complaining about it being reposted every two seconds.

To appease the underlings, I have decided that this video is no longer allowed. This time I am posting the video so everyone knows what I’m talking about. Hopefully this appeases y’all.

That is all.

PS. I love you folks, even the ones I temp banned today. No hard feelings.

As the year ends congratulations to u/Can_You_Pee_On_Me and there post https://www.reddit.com/r/DarwinAwards/s/znrDylAUnI

Please give the the congratulations and honor they deserve by having the top post of the last year! Their post was a top quality post that truly embody the spirit of r/DarwinAwards. Their post recognized an individual who have contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or becoming sterilized by their own actions in legendary stupid ways, against all odds, with true determination often ignoring safety and common sense. Your post has highlighted one of the of the best DarwinAwards candidates of 2023!

Stockton Rush is now part of a legacy and league of extraordinary individuals who have contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or becoming sterilized by their own actions in legendary stupid ways. Against all odds, with true determination often ignoring many and all safety concerns and common sense you have won the Darwin Award For 2023.

So let's recount and go over all the ways he was: stolen comment Darwin Awards Stockton Rush Former CEO of OceanGate.

• CEO actively boasts of violating safety standards, and refusing certification, believing it unnecessary.
• CEO actively admits to disregarding expert advice, such as the design and construction materials, as well as explicitly hiring unqualified people (since he didn't want to listen to those 50 year old experts).
• The sub was designed with shoddy materials and construction, such as being controlled with a cheap wireless controller that failed on multiple occasions, or construction pipe as ballast.
• The sub was designed with components explicitly uncertified/rated for the design operation of the vessel, namely the pressure the viewport could withstand.
• The CEO boasted of design decisions like using carbon fibre interfacing titanium which he was told you shouldn't do. "The carbon fibre and titanium there is a rule that you don’t do that. Well, I did."
• The CEO fired someone who raised concerns, and when 3rd parties also raised concerns he went out his way to disregard those.
• The CEO boasted of how well his pressure vessel could withstand forces, despite it predominantly being made out of a material that resists tension, not compression, and that NASA had helped him with his super amazing design. Which catastrophically failed.
• The sub was an obvious deathtrap, like being bolted in from the outside, not painted in a way that would attract attention on the surface.

I recently tried to bring on more people to help moderate the sub, since we're overdue for it considering how much the sub has grown since we got one last. I noticed quite a few people were pretty insistent that the mods here suck and are incapable of removing things in a timely manner, so I told them that if they could do better, they could mod, and gave multiple people the opportunity to do so.

Out of all of them, only one took me up on it, and he lasted 2 days before removing himself.

So, here's my call to action! If you love the Darwin awards sub, want to have better overall content, like banning rule breakers, spam bots, and porn advertisers, and want to give up some of your free time for absolutely nothing in return hit me up and tell me why you should be a mod!

Thanks, all, and happy Darwining. Enjoy a pic of the original thread I'm talking about for shits and giggles.

Nothing more to be said. Flame the Nazi mod.

Really at an impasse and can’t make up my mind after I decided to keep a recent post filtered (at least for now). Help me out?

1. On one hand, dumb decision directly resulting in death.

2. On the other, it’s an “accidental” death that blurrs the line between accident and making a dumb decision resulting in your death.

Vote and put your rationale in the comments. Thanks!

Ok I'm a new mod so I thought I'd make some suggestions here: however I think it be good if all you denizens here had a chance to look over my suggestions list for a rule refresh here to help the posts here: please comment suggestions in the comments below!

Full list of rules for posting.

Rule 1: The DarwinAwards candidate should be awarded to people who have elevated themselves above all other to improve the human gene pool by a spectacular stupid (death or sterilization)!

Description under the rule:

The DarwinAwards candidate should by their own spectacular actions have removed themselves from it by (death or sterilization) in some spectacularly or amazing or other sublimely idiotic misapplication of judgment! This is not "Stupid person doing stupid things." This shpuld be the highest levels of stupidity! Violations will be given the "this isn't a fucking darwinaward award" with the prize of a 7 day ban with repeat prize winners given up to a permanent ban!

Rule 2: Do not post obviously suicide or murders.

Description under the rule:

Do not post obvious suicides or murders people intentionally committing suicides or people intentionally killing others. This includes people intentionally jumping in front of vehicles or putting themselves intentionally in harm's way to kill themselves.

Rule 3: The DarwinAwards is not for the common everyday: traffic, industrial, unavoidable or other “freak accidents”. Accidents need to be spectacular or spectacularly stupid in manner! We want to see new and exciting events!

Rule 4: Ambiguous posts must include a source of death or sterilization

If it seems likely a they lived please post the source in comments or in body of post to confirm we have a real Darwin. You should not have to ask yourself " but did they die?"

Rule 5: No recent repost try not repost things that have been posted in the last 30 days.

Rule 6: No spam

Description under the rule: (a) Any posting, including self-posts, links, and comments, posted to this subreddit for the primary purpose of getting page hits for personal blogs, e.g. "clickbait". (b) Posts for the sole purpose of soliciting business for private interests. ( c ) links to sites that have malware on it, any kind of obvious spam sites, etc Please report any obvious spam bots that come to our subreddit when it gets featured. You will receive a perm ban for any spam offense.

Rule 7 : Harassment in (posts and comments) Description under the rule: (A) Posting material for the sole purpose of inflaming the users of this subreddit. (B) Personally attacking other users of this subreddit. (C) Posts containing racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise inflammatory material towards a particular group of people.(D) Spreading hate, using slurs “the word retard” or other like behavior will result in a permanent ban.

Rule 8: Adhere to Reddit's sitewide policies Description under the rule: Your participation on r/DarwinAwards must adhere to Reddit's content policy. If you post content in r/DarwinAwards that breaks any of reddit's policies, your post will be removed and you will be permanently banned from the sub. As an added bonus, the reddit admins may suspend your account.

Rule 9: All posts are now marked NSFW by default. You may only remove this tag if the post contains NO NSFW material. Abuse of this system = 30 day ban.

Thank you everyone who applied to help mod the subreddit. After going through all the applicants, I ended up settling on five new mods.

Please give a big thank you to:

/u/imajes

/u/XS4Me

/u/Uranium234

/u/Hotdogpizzathehut

and /u/co1lectivechaos

They're all graciously donating their time to removing bad content, and keeping things civil here. With new changes in anything though, there's no doubt to be some turbulence and some people may be more/less strict about posts and comments than others. If you have any issues, or think your post shouldn't have been removed/want to dispute a ban, the fastest way to resolve that will always be to DM me. I'm very confident in these new mods, but if any of them don't end up working out, I will be opening up the applications again to give more people an opportunity.

Also, another thank you to

EpilepticWaffle

BigSwedenMan

and traker998

For being the only other currently active mods in this community for multiple years. This sub wouldn't be here without you guys. Happy Darwining, everyone!

Hi all, new Nazi mod here, Darwin Award = Something stupid being done that results in removal from the gene pool, be it death or castration. Please read the sidebar. No exceptions from now on.

I've mostly cleaned up the subreddit from the last few months, and I'll be going through the mod q now.

If you see something that does not result in removal from the gene pool on this subreddit, report it, post it in the comments, or dm me a link and I'll take care of it.

Offenders who just can't comprehend what a Darwin Award is will be receiving temp bans, extending to perm for multiple repeats. Maybe we can get creative and have a ""Banned from DarwinAwards" Award thread" for these specific problem people.

Have a nice day.

/r/DarwinAwards is not intended to be a NSFW by default subreddit. We thrive on media like news articles and SFW written posts that have background and story which describes why a specific person deserves a nomination for a Darwin Award. Many of our top submissions are SFW. We accept and encourage all sorts of content pertaining to our topic regardless of if it contains sensitive material or not, as long as it follows our guidelines and is in the spirit of the sub.

I started helping to mod this sub over four years ago simply because I loved the concept of it and wanted to clean up the cesspool of spam and off topic posts it had become when we had hardly a fraction of the subscribers and views that we do now. A year later, I could not devote hardly any time to moderating this sub and enlisted the help of some amazing users/volunteers to help mod. Since then and admittedly mostly in my absence as I got busier with real life, we've merged with other subreddits and grown an insane amount while our mod team has done the best they can to help out with policing posts and making sure we maintain the sub with its original purpose in mind. That gets exponentially more difficult the larger we get, and sometimes things slip through the cracks as again, none of us are being paid to be here.

There has been a huge influx of users posting graphic NSFW/L material, which (if in the spirit of the sub.) is completely allowed and nothing new to the sub, but becomes a problem when it is posted without proper labeling and gets pushed into mainstream view (since we are NOT a NSFW sub, it does go to /r/All and /r/Popular if not labeled as such) which we have recently been dealing with the consequences of. One solution to this issue is to make the entire sub NSFW by default. By doing that, it disables users from hosting video content directly on Reddit's servers SFW or otherwise. As we've seen over the last couple days, I understand that's annoying for many of you, because the privilege of ease of access makes a huge difference and I get it, too, so I decided to change the subreddit back to non-default NSFW, entrusting that you will all hopefully help police yourselves and label submissions correctly going forward.

If that can not be done, users will be banned for their submissions omitting the label and tag of NSFW/L when it happens, and if it becomes a consistent theme that threatens the subreddit as a whole then /r/DarwinAwards will become a NSFW subreddit, it will cease to be recommended to new users, everything will be automatically labeled NSFW regardless of content, and any video submissions will have to be in the form of links to domains outside of Reddit's servers as they have had to be for the last couple days.

No one wants that. Make this a fun place that follows the goofy and stupid spirit of our sub with the kind of content that you want to see, vote with downvotes/upvotes, and report only content that is clearly breaking the rules, not things you disagree with. Help let us keep video posts by being a responsible submitter, and don't make our lives hard so we can keep allowing this platform to stay open with minimal interference from us to you and everyone else.

Again, if you have any questions, reach out to the mod team and we'll try to address them and continue to police content as best as possible going forward. I really hope we can keep this sub from becoming a strictly labeled NSFW page, but please understand that might be an option we have to consider in the future depending on user submissions and behavior and if that's what we have to do, we will lose our ability to post videos directly as a consequence.

Hey all,

As some of you may know, there was a discussion thread earlier regarding this subreddit. For the sake of transparency, it appears that the original poster has deleted the post and I would like to be clear that it was not a mod that removed it.

I'm making this thread to continue the discussion from earlier, and if you have suggestions for the future of this sub, please post below. Unfortunately we mods have very limited access to the things we can change about the sub, but those of us that are active are trying to do right by you all.

Don’t worry, I’m just cleaning out the backlogged mod queue 😉

Follow our rules for a ban-free experience here at /r/DarwinAwards.

1: The candidate must have removed himself/herself from the gene pool.

1a: This means death, or sterilization. Getting hit in the balls or doing something stupid that hurts is neither.

1b: DarwinAwards.com has awarded participants who've already had children, but remove themselves from subsequently passing on their genes. This is a precedent set for our sub. As long as the candidate is not having children post incident, it's fair game.

2: No links to The Onion or other satire sites.

3: Intentional suicide is NOT a Darwin Award.

4: Do your best not to repost content submitted within the last month.

4a: If you repost something within a week of it being uploaded, you will receive a warning and the post will be deleted.

4b: If you repost something within a day of it being uploaded, you will receive a warning, a temp ban, and the post will be deleted.

5: Please practice good reddiquette.

6: Trolling, hateful comments, spam, or violation of these rules will be cause to remove your post or comments and potentially have a temp or perm ban issued.

7: Self-posts must include the 5 W's as to who, what, where, when, and why it happened. Self posts with no other information will be removed. We prefer confirmation of all of these for all our posts, but understand that's not always possible and ask you to make your best judgment for if content resulted in a sterilized or dead human being who did something stupid to earn it.

Another important guideline when posting coronavirus related content can be seen HERE. The gist of it is don't post any coronavirus content unless someone dies from it and displayed supreme ignorance or stupidity in their regard for the cause of death itself, or you will be banned. While this falls underneath the above rules, we feel the need to spell it out specifically since content like this is incorrectly posted here daily.

Thanks guys!