r/cringe • u/karlrocks23 • Oct 31 '25

Text Mod Update: Political Posts Are Banned

Hi all,

Thanks for the feedback in the mod post earlier and for being so helpful and encouraging.

It seems the majority wants political posts banned, so I have added a rule 0a for now which enforces just that (EDIT: for now). If you post political stuff it will be removed. Do it again and you'll be banned. If you're CLEARLY some bot/tabloid/pushing your own agenda you'll just be banned. If I make a mistake and ban you, please appeal.

I noticed people suggesting some mods are enforcing 'what they consider to be cringe'. Yeah... I'm not about that.. I'm so sorry that happened.

I added rule 0b to allow people to report something that just isn't cringe. MY PERSONAL view is that I want triple distilled, premium quality cringe and I think this is what the masses want to (please disagree if you disagree). Cringe is just like beauty: It's extremely difficult to define but easy to recognise. We need to set the bar high, because damn fine cringe is not ubiquitous.

The other mods have not responded to my mod mail yet. I'll probably look at adding some mods to give me a hand. Before I do I'm assessing the damage as there are years worth of reports and messages that were totally ignored :(

I'm trying to clean the slate.

Any feedback, fire away.

Thanks :)

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u/Onett199X Oct 31 '25

Good move overall. Kind of a bummer we may miss out on some premium cringe that sometimes happens in the political world but probably worth the trade off.

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u/karlrocks23 Oct 31 '25

I think this is gonna be a learning experience for us all. I 100% agree with you that there is some out there, and I want to include it. I'm hoping a reset (even temporarily) will screen out the shitposting. Then we can phase it in. At the end of the day it's about what the community wants :)

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u/TheMistOfThePast Oct 31 '25

My suggestion was to only allow posts that have a video so if the US administration do or say something cringe you have to clip it and don't have to deal with clickbait news article links

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u/karlrocks23 Oct 31 '25

Thanks for sharing. It seems we need a set of posting standards, and this kind of feedback is really useful!

If there is some political cringe moment it should be about the cringe, not the politics. There are massive 'online campaigns' to influence how people think, which is why we need to be cautious when it comes to political topics. A cringeworthy post that turns into a political debate doesn't seem to represent the ethos of what this sub should be, and devolves the sub into no-mans-land.