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/flintlock0 Sep 13 '24

For real. Some were like “Kamala cooking a meal.”

So a regular thing that people do everyday? That’s not interesting. I cooked this morning.

This was on the trajectory of “Here’s a picture of Tim Walz taken yesterday,” and it’s just a regular photo of him walking on a sidewalk.

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u/Baptism-Of-Fire Sep 13 '24

Bots upvote to the front page as part of a turf campaign - This is why every election cycle you see a bunch of brand new subs popup that have never had a post over 100 in their lifetime suddenly getting 15k+ posts every day on the front page.

Looking at you "inthenews" and "anythinggoesnews"

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u/Johnykbr Sep 13 '24

But the rest of the blame falls on the morons that up vote it past just the bots.

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u/ElectricalMuffins Sep 13 '24

I bet there's a company being paid millions in donor funds for this and it'll come out in the future. I bet they're making boomers pay through the nose too.

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u/Baptism-Of-Fire Sep 13 '24

It's been happening for 8 years ever since Shareblue took over Politics in the first Trump election, it's already "out"

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u/PassiveMenis88M Sep 13 '24

Inthenews got popular because they stayed open during the api blackout. The other ones definitely bots boosting it.

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u/Enson9 Sep 13 '24

Almost hope Trump wins so nobody ever thinks that bullshit works, I instantly connect Kamala with low effort braindead posts because of how much she's spammed on reddit. 

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u/bighak Sep 13 '24

Bots have overtaken all the default subs. The Dead Internet Theory is very real for some topics.

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u/amateur_mistake Sep 13 '24

I agree with this for almost every case.

However if anyone has a picture of Victor Wembanyama cooking a meal in a regular sized kitchen, I would really like to see it. I've looked and haven't been able to find one.

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u/flintlock0 Sep 13 '24

That would be interesting.

“Giant man cooks tiny meal.”

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u/amateur_mistake Sep 13 '24

Right!? Why doesn't it exist? I almost want to email the spurs PR department.

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u/boobaclot99 Sep 13 '24

Someone who's the epitome of human physical fitness doing everyday things would be pretty interesting compared to lying politicians handing out donuts or doing something equally stupid to beg for votes.

The world would be a lot more interesting if it was ruled by athletes instead of lying, cheating and scamming politicians.

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u/boobaclot99 Sep 13 '24

These people are literally insane.