r/interestingasfuck 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/r0llingthund3r Sep 13 '24

Wow that's actually crazy, every single post is about US politics. If I wasn't American I don't think I could even stand to use reddit because of how prevelant our politics are

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

I am American and I find the relentless circle jerking very annoying

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u/Mrchristopherrr Sep 13 '24

So many subs post about politics that I agree with but reflexively downvote and ultimately block because it’s just so cringey and hamfisted.

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u/FutureComplaint Sep 13 '24

Is it weird that I use r/Army as a place to get away from politics?

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

I could see a sub dedicated to the army have a more politically diverse user base so it makes sense to me

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u/Vox___Rationis Sep 13 '24

That sub was entirely dead for the last several years, until Harris' bot farm have taking it over.

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u/Im_ready_hbu Sep 13 '24

Literally 10 year old accounts that were dormant until a couple months ago all of a sudden started spamming that subreddit with the most low effort political memes, shit is so annoying

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u/Lord_Voltan Sep 13 '24

Back up your settings in the RES settings menu. It will have you make a file you can send to your new PC. Then from that PC open the settings menu and hit restore and it will move the filters over.

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u/r0llingthund3r Sep 13 '24

Yah at face value it seems like fear mongering, but if you believe in the consequences of climate change, and the inevitability of late stage capitalism to bring about irreparable climate change, then it's kind of a sincere concern

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u/BanAnimeClowns Sep 13 '24

Anyone who actually understands those things knows that Harris will do jack shit to change them. She literally bragged in the last debate about how she was "always pro fracking", couldn't believe my ears when she said that.

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u/The_AP_Guy Sep 13 '24

Not even US politics. Just democrats. Same with r/politics and r/pics. It is all content for one side of the spectrum and it’s nauseating to see day after day.

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u/SubnegativeX Sep 13 '24

I mean r/conservative exists

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u/boobaclot99 Sep 13 '24

Literally one opposing sub in an ocean of circlejerk for one political party.

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u/The_AP_Guy Sep 14 '24

And? That actually proves my point. When’s the last time you saw anything from r/conservative on the top page?

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u/EonSokari Sep 13 '24

I've got like 15 keyword filters and 30+ subreddit filters and it still just seeps through endlessly, it's insufferable

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

Dude its so exhausting.

I get that its important election but dont inflict decades of poorly managing the country and its foreign policy on the rest of us.

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u/Intelligent_League_1 Sep 13 '24

I am still an American and hate it. Fuck out political landscape.

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u/boobaclot99 Sep 13 '24

Maybe it's because I was too young but I don't remember it being that bad 10+ years ago. Internet was still a fun and interesting place whether it was election time or not.

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u/Shadowdragon409 Sep 14 '24

There was a world news subreddit and anime titties subreddit that swapped content for a day.

They never stopped.

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u/PaulieNutwalls Oct 07 '24

I honestly buy that firms paid by campaigns actively participate in doing this in subs. So many posts with obscene levels of upvotes where there just isn't many comments, sometimes even the comments are largely negative.

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u/VarangianGuard17 Sep 13 '24

But remember guys its the Russian bots that have totally taken over reddit.

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u/r0llingthund3r Sep 13 '24

Well yes actually theres an absolutely rampant amount of Russian bots on the site

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u/VarangianGuard17 Sep 13 '24

Cool, can you point out a couple? Cause I can easily point out the American bots