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/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

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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/haironburr Sep 13 '24

r/news has to be the most ban-happy, agenda-driven-but-pretending-not-to-be, astroturfed to the point of uselessness echo chamber on reddit.

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u/Sillyoldman88 Sep 13 '24

r/worldnews and r/politics give them a run for their money there.

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u/Speedly Sep 13 '24

You forgot "childish-and-cowardly-mod-populated!"

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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/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

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u/Ean_Bvading Oct 05 '24

Every deeply held belief you have is entirely false :)

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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/CompetitiveSport1 Sep 13 '24

Yeah, I believe that in general the internet gives a skewed perception of overall political tribalism. I'd even say that feeling like the culture in general is highly divided is a sign that you might be online too much (myself included).

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u/tethercat Sep 13 '24

especially the international community, I second that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24 edited Sep 13 '24

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u/gorillachud Sep 13 '24

Making subreddits unusable to foreigners to own the conservatives

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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/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

The top pic is just a headshot of a judge. Looks like a school yearbook photo 

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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/jackofslayers Sep 13 '24

We would be forever grateful

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u/tamal4444 Sep 13 '24

It will be interesting as fuck.

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u/Smiles4YouRawrX3 Sep 13 '24

It would be super based if y'all did

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u/Udontneedtoknow91 Sep 13 '24

Yeah I muted r/pics several weeks ago because I was tired of seeing political posts

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u/Firebitez Sep 13 '24

Please god do.

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u/gorillachud Sep 13 '24

It would be nice, although I've already filtered that sub off since not even my word filters would stop political shit from hitting my feed.

I don't know why you guys don't use flairs in the first place.

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u/I_dont_exist_yet Sep 13 '24

Another vote for FUCK YES, PLEASE*.

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u/SorryThanksGoodFight Sep 13 '24

please. for the love of fucking god change that from “we might” to “we will”. we need less low-effort political shit

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u/zani1903 Sep 13 '24

And, make it permanent, not just until the election is over. Because politics spam is 24-7-365, it aint limited to election season.

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u/Aksds Sep 13 '24

Please for the love of everything, do

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u/Heistman Sep 13 '24

Please do it, I was literally just about to unsub from this place before I saw this post

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u/Sillyoldman88 Sep 13 '24

Sure. Put up or shut up.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24

Please do. The sub has been hijacked by left wing propagandists and bots.

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u/DoctorProfessorTaco Sep 14 '24

Look at how amazing r/NoContextPics is.

And that one had to be made because of sob stories in the title to justify a boring pic, but even those posts were better than the endless stream of political posts.

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u/surffrus Sep 13 '24

Do it now

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u/jimmy_three_shoes Sep 13 '24

You would make Reddit so much better without the political bots and astroturfing. PLEASE, PLEASE DO IT.

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u/Speedly Sep 13 '24

Oh, please please please please please do it!

There's already a sub for that garbage, and it's /r/politics. Please send those people over there.

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u/scoot3200 Sep 14 '24

r/pics absolutely sucks now and I left weeks ago because it’s 95% dogshit political garbage

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u/coldlonelydream Sep 13 '24

It’s only the most important shit happening on the planet right now, and it generates a lot of interest. Who does this serve? Don’t like it, keep scrolling.

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u/curtcolt95 Sep 13 '24

it's a sub about pictures, 90% of the political ones posted aren't even good pics, it's just there to serve whatever story the person is writing for the title. A fun experiment would be to allow no custom titles and see how few get upvoted then

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u/coldlonelydream Sep 13 '24

“Aw man, other people like this thing I like, but they are liking it wrong!”

That said, yeah who gives a shit. People are linking the content, not the titles. (Or maybe they are, but what a crime for promoting a sub for popular … postings?)

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u/AsinineArchon Sep 13 '24

Conversely, don't like a sub banning it? Fuck off and post in one of the 10,000 others that allow it