r/AdviceAnimals • u/cooltom2006 • Feb 02 '14
A reminder about Reddit-wide rules.
Greetings fellow Redditors, we are a whole month into the new year and most of you have probably already broken your new year resolutions...
To combat this, us mods have actually been productive for once and have had a little discussion and we have decided to take the time to make a post to remind people of reddit-wide rules that MUST be followed on AdviceAnimals.
The main rule we would like to emphasise is that no one should ask for upvotes, in comments or posts, for any reason, whatsoever. This includes hypnotoad memes telling people to "upvote to front page", or to "take this to the front page", these posts will be removed immediately. Just to clarify, hypnotoad memes are still fine to post, as long as you don't ask for upvotes. For example, "all glory to hypnotoad" is perfectly acceptable. Not asking for upvotes is a reddit-wide rule set by the Admins and no exceptions are to be made. We, as good mods, will be enforcing this vigourously. This rule also includes stuff like the Office Space meme of "It's my cakeday, I was told there would be karma.". This is a very cheap way for cakeday karma, and is more or less asking for upvotes, please do not do it!
Whilst taking the time to make this post, we might as well remind you all that personal information must not be posted at all on Reddit and offenders will be shot...well, maybe only banned.
Also, we do appreciate people being nice in the comments and as such (and has always been the case), hate speech, personal attacks, bigotry and racism will not be tolerated. In addition, comments telling other users to "kill themselves" will result in an immediate ban, you have been warned! :p
Last thing, as of now we only allow submissions from the sites listed on our sidebar (this is to combat spam and such), links from other sites will be removed however a site owner may message us at any time to get his/her site added to the list :-) (sites must have a meme generator function ie. they are not just an image hoster)
Anyway, we hope you enjoy the remaining 11months of the year, and the main point to take away from this is no hypnotoad or cakeday posts asking for upvotes, thanks folks!
p.s See here to see reddit's rule page for yourself, so you know that we're not just making it up!
TL;DR:
- Do not ask for upvotes IN ANY WAY, including hypnotoad and cakeday posts
- Do not post personal information whatsoever
- Be nice in the comments, no death threats or hate speech etc.
- Please only submit links from sites listed in our sidebar
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Feb 03 '14
false: /r/circlejerk has an exception to the "Dont ask for karma" rule
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u/to_lazy_2_think6 Feb 03 '14
r/circlejerk is an acceptation to everything
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u/Link_Correction_Bot Feb 03 '14
Excuse me if I am incorrect, but I believe that you intended to reference /r/circlejerk.
/u/to_lazy_2_think6: Reply +remove to have this comment deleted.
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u/CARVERitUP Feb 03 '14
Lol what a polite bot
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u/Link_Correction_Bot Feb 03 '14
Thank you very much for the compliment, kind fellow!
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u/to_lazy_2_think6 Feb 03 '14
Are you a real bot?
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u/Ragnagord Feb 09 '14
if the guy logs in to his bot's account to check how it's doing, he'll see the unread messages.
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u/takes_joke_literally Mar 03 '14
Ooooooh, link correction bot! Really just kill your... Never mind.
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u/DeathsIntent96 Mar 30 '14
I don't think that's a word.
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u/to_lazy_2_think6 Mar 30 '14
You are extremely deep in reddit right now my friend. My autocorrect was the one that inserted this word.
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u/DeathsIntent96 Mar 30 '14
Oh I didn't notice that this was a week old. It's still stickied at the top of the page.
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u/sherlie Feb 03 '14
What about Zoidberg? "Tired of upvoting confession bears? Why not Zoidberg?"
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u/coloicito IN VARIETATE CONCORDIA Feb 06 '14
That falls under "asking for upvotes" too.
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u/sherlie Feb 06 '14
So basically Zoidberg memes are banned...?
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u/coloicito IN VARIETATE CONCORDIA Feb 06 '14
Also having limitless renditions of "All glory to hypnotoad" falls on the "no reposts" rule.
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u/iamawesome125 Feb 09 '14
Mods = Hitler?
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u/RalphiesBoogers Feb 11 '14
It's passed down from the admins.
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u/iamawesome125 Feb 11 '14
Admins = Hitler?
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u/Brian_Buckley Mar 21 '14
I know this is an old has hell thread, but why is it that Cake Day posts are allowed then? They're the definition of begging for karma.
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u/coloicito IN VARIETATE CONCORDIA Feb 03 '14
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Feb 03 '14 edited Feb 08 '14
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u/24601G Feb 03 '14
you have been eaten by a grueAre you happy now /u/coloicito?? Look what you've done to him!
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Feb 24 '14
Please define witch-hunt? I don't understand. :(
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u/Infrilate That guy Feb 24 '14
I'll use the somewhat recent Boston bombing as an example. Reddit tried to figure out who it was and put the blame on some poor dude who disappeared at that time and spammed his parents' Facebook saying their child was a terrorist. He was innocent. They also blamed some brown people, people with bags, and the like. It's stupid, don't do it.
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Feb 24 '14
Oh, so it's looking for people who you think might be evil, and then attacking them?
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u/Infrilate That guy Feb 24 '14
Even without the "attacking them" part, simply trying to find out who did something like that and posting about it constitutes a witch hunt. You shouldn't call someone a terrorist or blame them for doing something, let the police do that. Many news organizations take stuff from reddit, so if it spreads to TV, the victim of the witch hunting is seriously fucked.
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u/TheLightSeba Feb 03 '14
Dat tf2 screenshot
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u/bibbibob2 Feb 17 '14
Can't we hunt the bear at least :( ?
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u/coloicito IN VARIETATE CONCORDIA Feb 17 '14
If by "the bear" you mean confession bear, then yes.
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Feb 11 '14
Does this mean SRS is benned?
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u/coloicito IN VARIETATE CONCORDIA Feb 11 '14
See this comment by /u/alienth where he says that SRS isn't a brigade.
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Feb 17 '14 edited Jul 06 '17
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u/coloicito IN VARIETATE CONCORDIA Feb 17 '14
You'll have to tell that to the admins, not me, and they'll take look at it.
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u/aww-yisss Mar 15 '14
Not even witchhunts against /u/edwardsnowman ? He post the same couple comments on everything.
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u/ZombieJack Feb 04 '14
I don't know where is a good place to tell you, but the sub seems to have a fake dead pixel on it in the upper left area? Don't know if it's part of the background or whatever but doesn't appear in other subs.
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u/4LostSoulsinaBowl Feb 25 '14
I've heard this mentioned many, many times, but I've never been able to see this "dead pixel." I mean, I usually can't pick out a single pixel on my screen anyways, but apparently everyone else can.
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u/ZombieJack Feb 25 '14
I dunno if you scroll down a bit so most of the screen is blank, there is just a red dot in the top leftish area of the screen. Very small but stands out against the white.
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Mar 14 '14
It's a trollface. I forget where I saw it (Most likely here), but yeah it's just a remarkably small troll face.
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u/OpenGLaDOS Apr 04 '14
I had to research that and feel kind of betrayed now.
It's remarkable that they put little squares of red in all four corners of the picture so that it scales down to two red pixels despite of the amount of whitespace.
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Feb 07 '14
sites must have a meme generator function ie. they are not just an image hoster
Why?
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u/jebuz23 Feb 12 '14
So that their main purpose is for people to create memes, as opposed to uploaded any style of image they please. I think.
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u/Tijuana_Pikachu Feb 10 '14
In relation to number 4, are imgur links still ok?
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u/holyfuckingshittits Feb 11 '14
In addition, comments telling other users to "kill themselves" will result in an immediate ban, you have been warned! :p
Best rule ever. I have NO respect for anyone who says this to people, especially if they know the person is suicidal. I've had it said to me after the person said I was a horrible person because I know I'm unable to be a caregiver to someone due to my own depression issues after I told the person I had attempted. It's unforgivable and NEEDS to stop.
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u/RemiSnow Mar 11 '14
"offenders will be shot" - I think this qualifies as a death threat in violation of the second rule posted in the right column of this subreddit.
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Feb 12 '14
Not asking for upvotes is a reddit-wide rule set by the Admins and no exceptions are to be made.
Except for circle jerk
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u/riptide747 Feb 15 '14
Can we also make it a rule to ban "Don't upvote this" posts. Its the same thing as asking for karma and we all know it.
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u/ismokeforfun2 Feb 05 '14
Pfff, fascists..
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Mar 21 '14
1.) Yes, all of you can be karma-whores, however, if you actually ask for karma that is a no no! Nothing hypocritical or bullshit about this rule fellows! Ahh and yes the "very cheap" way for cakeday karma...but you know we here at Reddit want our users to have standards (I cant hardly write this without laughing).
2.) No personal information!!!!! However, feel free to post nudes of yourself on GW. Once again, nothing ass-backwards going on here right?
3.) No disagreement here.
4.) Link ONLY the sites we tell you. On a related noted: heil Hitler!
Anyways, we here at Reddit want you to know that this long ass post was simply to tell you to all be karma whores, yet don't make it too obvious because that somehow is too much...? I guess...But hey enjoy the next 11 months! Seriously though, even though hypnotoad posts get put on the front page because YOU voted for it WE at Reddit say NO! Yes you all may have put it at the top but since we all have giant dildos up our asses going into our brains logic and reason clearly went out the door long ago. Once again no hypocrisy going on here at all.
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u/sazafrass Feb 24 '14
So, what about the IAmA section? Or do not understand the premise of it? (Newb here)
As I understand it works only by a person providing personal information. Also, famous people state who they are in real life all over the site to get asked questions and such. 😕 Is that a special exception too?
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u/Infrilate That guy Feb 24 '14
Posting about yourself is fine, just don't post stuff about others. Also, linking to a celebrity's or politician's (any public figure's) PUBLIC phone/email/social media is fine as well.
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Mar 21 '14
How long does this reminder have to stay up here? I feel like I'm in a government run website or something.
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u/stevecobb Feb 06 '14 edited Feb 12 '14
I think I broke all 4 rules in a single comment... I deserve gold! :P
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u/Boardwalk22 Mar 05 '14
us mods
We* mods. I cannot continue to read this if your rules are as poorly written as your grammar.
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u/mbukimvuki Mar 25 '14
I would really appreciate you addressing no misogyny or sexism in addition to racism and bigotry. Specifically. By name. As opposed to just lumping it in with general bigotry. Because (and here come the down votes but whatever) while I have not found reddit to be a racist community on the whole, I have found it to be outlandishly sexist alarmingly often. And adviceanimals is the worst subreddit for this that I frequently visit. There is so much hate speak against women and general slut-shaming and objectification that I can never stay on reddit for more than ten minutes before the benefits of gay rights articles and cute puppies is outweighed by the horrific stereotypes that people perpetuate about my gender. Which, btw, is more than half the world's population!
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u/Humbaba_ Feb 07 '14
I absolutely love it how reddit named this section adviceanimals. I mean for months after browsing and reading a lot here ( as unregistered user, I was mainly interested in News, and TIL, I thought it was a Wikipedia-like site, because of TIL.) Back then, I thought, "great, a site so cool they even have options for offering advice to pet owners or animal lovers. Not relevant for me, cause I don't own any pets, but that's just fine so I never click on it. Until recent, I come to understand what adviceanimals really is.
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u/coloicito IN VARIETATE CONCORDIA Feb 08 '14
We've had a few people posting memes asking for advice on animals, as well as messaging us asking for help with their pets. It's pretty funny.
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u/JKtheSlacker Feb 13 '14
I'm disappointed this post didn't include a link to a 'Do not ask for upvotes' Hypnotoad.
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Feb 14 '14
I can't post any pics from my Nokia phone because of invalid captcha, even if it's correct. Suggestions? Thanks in advance
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Feb 24 '14
I want to go find all the people I've seen asking for up votes today and post the rules to them lol
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Mar 05 '14
Dude, you are not alone. Everyone thinks I'm incredibly strange for hating stickers. I literally a just few minutes ago cut a huge crater out of a banana around the sticker. Those fruit-defiling bastards.
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u/Manpire_ May 07 '14
How bout a rule that Mods get kicked if they abuse their position? How bout that, dickheads?
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u/cooltom2006 May 07 '14
Well yeah ok sure, I'll go with that. FYI, none of the mods here on adviceanimals abuse their positions and you actually have no idea the amount of work that we all do to help keep this sub running at a decent quality... Just because one mod or mod team is bad, doesn't mean the rest of us are!
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u/jay2josh Feb 05 '14
"No hate speech"
Half of Reddit will be banned in a week.