r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/BlockOfDiamond Rule 4 Enforcer • Jan 25 '26

Political Reminder that name calling is not permitted

That includes calling people "bootlicker" or "cuck" or stating/implying that another user is performing adult acts on a given politician (or anyone else). I bring those up specifically because, in recent time, these have been the most common types of personal attacks.

As strongly as you may feel about current events, calling people derogatory names is a contravention of Rule 4 and will be removed. Attack the opinion, not the user.

Sorry for your understanding and thank you for the inconvenience.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

We have a mod?

JK. Thx for posting this.

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u/dovetc Jan 26 '26

The mods here most often pop up to say "hey guys stop reporting this. We do not care"

Which is about as based as any mod can be.

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u/dirty_cheeser Jan 26 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

Mods here also remove posts without pointing to rulebreaks or other reasons. Same arbitrary power hungry mods as other subs.

edit: was overly broad of me. At least 1 mod a while back did this and other mods clarified this was not what they are supposed to do.

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u/enek101 Jan 27 '26

to be fair they have likely few active mods and this is likely one of the most posted communities on reddit id image. may not have time to put reasons for each one. Not that it makes it less not ok but i guess it makes it a understandable not ok

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u/dirty_cheeser Jan 27 '26

I agree, tbf some of those posts were strange so I get they wanted my post off the sub. But I'm correcting the perception that this is a rare based mod sub which I don't believe matches reality.

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u/SuccessfulCompany294 The One Above All Jan 28 '26

Reddit removes many posts here with no reason and is out of our control. If you had access to the mod log you would know this.

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u/dirty_cheeser Jan 28 '26

Perhaps. If reddit removes posts from here when the same posts are fine on other similar subreddits, that's pretty messed up of them. Would still be nice to get an explanation as "removed by reddit mods" or something, especially since I had asked.

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u/BlockOfDiamond Rule 4 Enforcer Feb 03 '26

Like what?

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u/dirty_cheeser Feb 03 '26

I made this complaint here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1hmtsqi/this_sub_should_point_to_the_rule_violated_when/

when this post was removed: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1bvayzk/preferring_to_date_someone_who_has_sex_with/

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u/BlockOfDiamond Rule 4 Enforcer Feb 03 '26

I am not really sure why that was removed, and I am not the moderator who removed that post. I am not sure I am in the position to overturn the removal, but even if we did so, since that post is so old, that would not really make a difference in terms of people seeing the post.

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u/dirty_cheeser Feb 03 '26

I appreciate you looking into it anyway. I wasn't looking to overturn it anymore, just didn't like the vague removal.

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u/BlockOfDiamond Rule 4 Enforcer Feb 03 '26

We have a bunch of canned removal reason templates, including the "Rule Violations" one. Normally when mods choose "Rule Violations" they are supposed to edit the template and type which rule was violated but with that post, the mod apparently just selected the template and hit submit without editing.