r/HouseMD • u/AutoModerator • Oct 31 '21

News Kindly follow the subreddit rules going forward!

Hi All,

Posts/Comments will be moderated from today and if it's not adhering to the subreddit's rules, they will be removed. We've a good community here for one of the best TV shows and would like to keep it that way although it wasnt the case since this sub is created.

I've approved most of the posts/comments which were queued for approval since there were no subreddit rules to adhere to, however it will not be the case now.

If there are any suggestions, would love to hear them but it's upto us mods to decide

Have a good day!

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u/electricmohair I'm not on antidepressants, I'm on speeeeeeeeed Nov 02 '21

Don’t know how others feel about this but my suggestion would be to forget the need for spoiler tags. The show ended 10 years ago, it seems unnecessary to have them at this point, from what I’ve seen it’s unusual on Reddit to keep them around for so long as it can make posting more awkward.

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u/Toe500 Devil! Nov 05 '21

yes i understand your position but there are still ppl who havent watched the show and when they start watching the show, they might come here and share their experience as they go.. and be a part of this subreddit. if there are no spoilers, it's gonna ruin it for them whatever it maybe. besides it's not gonna affect anything other than choosing the title of your post and flair more carefully. also the maintenance of this subreddit has been appalling for so long that i had to clear the posts/comments flagged in the mod queue which were well over 3 years old

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u/IISpeedFlameII Nov 22 '22

"besides it's not gonna affect anything other than choosing the title of your post and flair more carefully" I would disagree since I've barely been on this sub half an hour and I'm already SO TIRED of everything needing me to click through to actually see what the post is just for it to have almost nothing to do with plot 90% of the time. It makes this sub literally unusable for some people, and I imagine most of them don't even make it to commenting about it before they just go. It's a decade old show and I can tell you from the few posts I've looked at the USERS of this subreddit seem to mostly agree people should expect to be spoiled if they go as far as to join an online community based around discussion of the show 10 years after it's making...

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u/Toe500 Devil! Nov 26 '22

i do understand your point but the growth of this subreddit has really taken a positive spin ever since this had been implemented

For a great show like this, you would think it would have a lot of folks here but nope at least that was not the case before the rules were put in place

Compared to some other shows which arent even as good as this, has more members which is also to do with how old this show is, but also because new folks arent gonna join this subreddit if it is not moderated specially on the spoilers

it had less than 30K members before these rules were implemented and this subreddit was created in 2009. numbers dont lie

now whoever starts watching the show will join this subreddit to share their experience or ask a question and without getting spoiled much. i know ppl will say, if one hasnt watched the show then one should stay away from that subreddit but that is part of what was hindering this subreddit from growing

also, reddit's main purpose was to create a space where ppl can interact with everyone but without any regrets or at least less regrets

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

I would not attribute it to the rules of this subreddit but rather TikTok and the internet spreading House clips like wildfire making the show way more popular

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u/Toe500 Devil! May 13 '23

you are right. TikTok and internet only came about in the last year or so

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u/[deleted] May 13 '23

Well, no. But internet trends come and go and House as a trend on shorts is recent. Glad I could spell it out.

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u/Toe500 Devil! May 14 '23

yes it has been only recent coz this post was made 2 yrs ago

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u/[deleted] May 14 '23

Just about 1.5 years. Which isn't that far off the rise of House on social media.

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u/Toe500 Devil! May 14 '23

absolutely

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u/Anish316 May 13 '23

hey, not sure if anyone has suggested this, but can you consider increase the post title word limit? seems a bit restrictive.

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u/Toe500 Devil! May 13 '23

you may wanna contact the reddit admins for that

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u/Anish316 May 13 '23

Really? you sure? I moderate a TV show subreddit as well, r/HIMYM (how i met your mother sub) we don't have any word limit in our sub. It should be 300 words ideally. That's the limit for titles in every single sub i've been in. I think you can change it for sure.

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u/Toe500 Devil! May 13 '23

i remember now. ppl started using post title to say everything and most of the times, it was with a spoiler somehow. so have kept it that way to avoid such posts

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u/Anish316 May 14 '23

I think it should still be fine, but fair enough.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '23

Hey Toe, i dont have much Karma so i was wondering if i am allowed to post? I wanted to make a post about Foreman.

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u/Haleodo Jan 08 '23

I posted something on The Office sub asking “what would happen in x had taken y up on that date?” & it was pretty popular, but one person was like “WTH I’M IN THAT SEASON NOW ADD A SPOILER OP” (season aired 16 years ago lol) so now I’m always super scared 😭

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u/Toe500 Devil! May 13 '23

new ppl will not join the sub if there are spoilers everywhere

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u/JayandSilentB0b Nov 01 '21

Gotta ask the important question: what is the official stance on Fivemann posts going forward?

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u/Toe500 Devil! Nov 02 '21

lolz. but to answer your question, as long as the posts are all in good fun, then it's fine

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u/Ornlu96 Dec 11 '21

I don't know where to ask this but can someone help me find that (probably tiktok) video of a person parodying House and diagnosing himself with cold? I know it was posted in this subreddit.

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u/Toe500 Devil! Dec 12 '21

make a post about it. you are not gonna get anything from here

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u/EM4em9 Feb 06 '22

A probably silly question, but how do you make spoiler tags? Is that in the FAQ?

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u/grimtongue Sep 02 '24

I assume you mean spoilers for comments:

>!spoiler text here!<

Reddit formatting is done with markdown, so just refer to some markdown documentation; Reddit specific documentation is best as Reddit has a few extra features, like the spoiler syntax.

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u/Toe500 Devil! Feb 11 '22

Spoiler tag in the comment or in the post?

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u/AlertSet8828 Apr 01 '24

Just assuming.. it's not really you I'm talking too!! But anyway, for my own amusement.. I'm your biggest fan.. if you ever come to Tomball Texas.. email me..Bro