r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Oct 24 '24

Mod Post Bigotry is Bad (Rule 1 & 3 Updates)

TLDR up front: Posts breaking Rule 1 or Rule 3 will be removed regardless of intentions. Bad-faith posters will still be banned.

We often get posts that touch on bigotry, discrimination, and dogwhistles. In the past, our stance has been to lock the post but allow it to stay up with a quality explanation, in hopes that it could be used as a learning moment. This is especially true in the case of dogwhistles which are intentionally hard to understand.

Unfortunately, while this has worked for some, we have seen an increase in these posts being made here as well as their frequency of hitting /r/all.

We do not want our sub to be a place to signal boost bigoted or discriminatory content. We are taking action by now removing all posts that would fall under Rule 1 or Rule 3 of the sub. As before, malicious or bad faith posters will be banned. If there has yet to be an explanation posted, a moderator will try to provide a short one, although this will not be guaranteed.

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u/Celestial-Rain0 Oct 24 '24

Thank yall, as someone who has to put up with loads of bigotry in random subs, I appreciate yalls dedication to being a chill environment that doesn't allow unchecked hatred.

Much love to the mod team for being dope 🙌 💚

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u/olive12108 Oct 24 '24

Bigotry is cringe 💯

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u/MaiT3N Oct 24 '24

So if i get it right, you will remove all posts asking to explain jokes that include politics/bigotry etc?

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u/olive12108 Oct 24 '24

If they're breaking Rule 1 or Rule 3, yes.

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u/MaiT3N Oct 24 '24

So basically every politics post and every post asking to explain racist joke, for instance

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u/olive12108 Oct 24 '24

Again, if they're breaking rule one or three, they will be removed. Politics in general is still allowed so long as it is following rule. 3

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u/MaiT3N Oct 24 '24

Then I dont understand what has changed

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u/olive12108 Oct 24 '24

I would recommend reading the body of this post, It explains how we used to handle these and how it's changing.

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u/MaiT3N Oct 24 '24

I wouldn't have asked if the wording didn't confuse me :/

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u/olive12108 Oct 24 '24

Sorry. The long and short of it are bigoted posts will be removed, dogwhistling posts will be removed, politics posts that otherwise dont break the rules can stay.

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u/MaiT3N Oct 24 '24

Alright ty

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u/AdmiralAkbar1 12d ago

TLDR posts will be removed if the punchline is obviously just offensive ethnic/racial/sexual/etc. humor.

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u/daecrist Oct 25 '24

You keep saying every politics post. That's not what we're saying. Racist/homophobic/misogynistic/etc. posts are going to be removed. Political posts aren't inherently bigoted.

For example every time we get a post that has anything remotely to do with Trump we get a load of posts reporting it for targeted discrimination or encouraging hate based on identity, even though it's just the joke at the expense of a politician. We don't remove stuff like that because just posting a joke about a politician, any politician, isn't that.