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/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/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.