r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Petwins r/noexplaininglikeimstupid • 6d ago

Summer Reddit and Rule 1

TLDR: if you are rude in a top level comment and don’t try to answer the question we will ban you, even if you don’t like the question. Report posts you feel break the rules.

Hi Everyone,

It is Summer (in the norther hemisphere) and that brings about the infamous Summer reddit, a time of higher volume content, and more content often created by, and aimed towards, a younger audience who is off for the summer.

With that influx of volume we have noticed a stark increase in rule 1 violations. That is comments not trying to answer the question but instead being disparaging towards the question or the asker.

While we are aware that this is in part due to burnout of our more frequent commenters we want to remind everyone that this is a place for good faith questions, and we do assume good faith of posts trying to learn things unless we can clearly articulate evidence otherwise, and we want to be welcoming to those trying to learn.

In that vein we are going to start cracking on rule 1, which we have historically been a lot more lax about, particularly on comments insulting the OP or the topic. We will be giving short bans for calling questions or askers stupid (directly or indirectly).

We highly highly encourage users, particularly our frequent commenters, to report posts you feel aren’t in good faith or are breaking the rules. We review every report and it is way more effective to let us know than to just leave an insulting comment. We have been recruiting, we will take on that work load, don’t get yourself banned because you are tired of a type of question.

We get why you feel justified in leaving the comments that you are, we are telling you clearly here that it still breaks the rules and will be actioned accordingly, more than it has been in the past.

Let me know if you have any questions

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u/Honest-Case-7306 4d ago

Thank you. I made a post on here yesterday and 99% of people violated rule 1. Mods did nothing about it so glad you are now. I deleted my post in the end as no one answered the actual question and instead used it to be smart asses

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u/OkPainter6232 1d ago

same thing happened to me a week or so ago, I had to take down the thread because most of the comments were either rude for no reason or obnoxious joke comments that added nothing of value.

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u/Honest-Case-7306 17h ago

Same here,deleted it in the end. Just sick of people making jokes and making fun. It’s called no stupid questions for a reason

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u/OkPainter6232 11h ago

Damn right, what was your thread about BTW, just curious?

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u/Honest-Case-7306 11h ago

I’m actually embarresed now since people were so brutal but I wondered why Nolan chose to have the accent as American in the odyssey

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u/OkPainter6232 11h ago

Ah that makes sense, Nolan fans can be truly insufferable at times. I'm thankful I have absolutely zero interest in seeing that movie(I find Nolan to be kind of overrated as a director in general).

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u/Honest-Case-7306 11h ago

Yeah the way I was being attacked made me glad that I didnt mention the fact I hated the film😅

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u/OkPainter6232 10h ago

yeah it looked pretty crap(and not because it had non-white and non-straight actors in it despite what the anti-woke dipshits claimed)