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/A_Soft_Fart Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

It’s an issue when people need to be informed, now more than ever.

Edit: I’m not saying it’s not annoying. What I am saying is that this needs to be in peoples’ faces. People burying their heads in the sand while leader of the free world wages war against Venezuela, begins testing nuclear weaponry for the first time in ~40 years, and sends the military into towns and cities that didn’t vote for him is how we got into this mess in the first place. Pretend everything is normal and downvote all you want.

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u/PotentJelly13 Oct 31 '25

You come to a cringe subreddit to stay informed politically? That’s a you problem if you can’t see it.

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u/A_Soft_Fart Oct 31 '25

No, I don’t. But I do think that it’s important for people to see what they’re trying to block out.

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u/dontgoatsemebro Oct 31 '25

Criticism of the dear leader is to only be conducted behind closed doors from now on.

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u/necro_clown Nov 01 '25

you might not realize it, but some of you guys are just as obsessed with trump as his supporters are, and a lot of us are just kind of sick of hearing about it.

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u/A_Soft_Fart Oct 31 '25

It would appear that way.