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r/AskReddit•
karmanaut

Attention AskReddit: Do not submit "Does Anyone Else" style posts in this subreddit

Please direct them to the appropriate subreddit, here. That is the purpose of having it, just like IAmA, which spun out of Askreddit.

Similar wording like "Am I the only one that does X" or "Who else likes X?" will also be subject to the same rules. If you're looking for affirmation of something you do or think, then go to DoesAnybodyElse. That way, we avoid loaded questions and let users speak for themselves instead of just agreeing or disagreeing.

Edit: Downvoting this only ensures that people won't know the policy. It will just have to be posted again.

Posted Jun 4, 2010, 12:17 PM UTC · edited

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Yserbius•

TIL that you shouldn't post DAE in AskReddit, AMA.

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Wyrm•

How do you know when to stop wiping?

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Yserbius•

Listen, if you don't believe me, just downvote and move on.

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[deleted]•

Wait, you don't wipe?

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[deleted]•

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ElDiablo666•

When the drive is clean. This is basic stuff.

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anonymous1•

Just make sure you drag the magnet in the same direction:

> > > > > >

not

> < > < > <
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Die-Bold•

But no jokes or stories, just advice.

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CarpoolTunnel69•

When it starts to hurt.

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[deleted]•

And should you crumple the paper into a wad or fold it neatly before you do?

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2oonhed•

When your finger breaks through the paper?

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atheist_creationist•

Did you catch on fire?

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itsnotlupus•

OMG u dont even now how2use teh 3 shells WTF

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[deleted]•

When you see blood.

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dontmakeavillage•

You do not that is why yellow in the front, brown in the back, always follow directions.

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Bender1012•

Don't be fooled guys, this person is a troll.

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Yserbius•

I PM'd the mods, should be getting my gold star shortly.

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[deleted]•

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[deleted]•

does anyone else hate you?

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hobbified•

I was hoping for "Everybody Poops".

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karmaval•

Reddit is a troll factory.

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[deleted]•

WHAT?!?!?

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Troll_Troll•

Troll troll troll troll troll!!!!!! EVERYTHING FUCKING TROLL!!!!!!

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karmaval•

Ah, there we go, yet another one has spawned.

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[deleted]•

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[deleted]•

Yea, but the hierarchy runs more like a monarchy than a business.

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Calvin_the_Bold•

You gotta pay the troll toll to get into this boy's hole.

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get_rhythm•

Nah, Reddit is a troll refinery.

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druid_king9884•

Ran by BP.

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centipeed•

DEA know that you shouldn't post DAEs in AskReddit?

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Yserbius•

DEA know that you shouldn't post DAEs in AskReddit?

Wow, that's actually the first I've heard of it! Thanks for the info!

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skt2k4•

I feel like ever since Circlejerk was made, this kind of post has become ubiquitous.

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dmightx•

What does TIL mean?

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kevmus•

My sarcasm detector is offline, so if you are serious:

"Today I learned"

So you could post "TIL what TIL means", etc.

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dmightx•

I wasn't being sarcastic. Thanks for letting me know.

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kevmus•

No problem, I just didn't want to fall for a troll or anything.

I might be getting slightly paranoid around reddit nowadays...

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bdelgado•

I'm not even sure that wasn't sarcastic.

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pdinc•

"Today I learned"

Theres an entire reddit for it.

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Die-Bold•

Don't post shit you learned yesterday there though.

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ThePatrickSays•

your shadow was my first mmo.

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Yserbius•

My Shadow makes Eyakfjordjksjhkashf look like a puny molehill in downtown Austin.

Ironically, I never played it.

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NitsujTPU•

DAE think that this is a crappy rule that should be overturned?

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[deleted]•

Is there a hyphen in "anal retentive"?

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Neebat•

How long have you been on Reddit?

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Yserbius•

How long have you been on Reddit?

You know, a lot of people ask me that question. I'm not sure what to tell them usually. Sometimes I say that it seems like forever, sometimes it's just last week. Either way, I was probably just a simple n00b while you were raking in your 6000 comment karma point. I have a few stories, but I can't really remember them. If I think of something funny, I'll tell it.

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earynspieir•

that comment sounds too 4chan...for the love of god, reddit, don't go "newfag, newfag"

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Neebat•

Gah! All the downvotes, for asking the obvious question? The dig-ness of it all!

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beccaonice•

I'm actually really curious why you asked that question.

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chemicalcloud•

redditor for 9 months

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borez•

DAE post DAE posts in Askreddit?

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Soylent_Veal•

I was terribly tempted to make a topic in this vein right after reading Karmanaut's title. Glad to see I'm not the only one

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karmanautOPMOD•

Some did. It was banned.

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Yserbius•

###BREAKING NEWS!!! KARMANAUT ABUSING HIS MOD POWERS!!

Citizens! To me! Grab your pitchforks and torches!

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daggity•

**HALP HALP I'M BEING OPPRESSED! **

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LocutusOfReddit•

We must go to the castle of Dr Fra ... Karmanaut, and burn him out!!!!

Rabble rouse, rabble rouse...

The crowd is getting ugly. ... A task that is easier for some than others.

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Soylent_Veal•

Glad i decided it was too softball then. What about making the rule a little bit more prominent in the right-hand guide? Might cut down on it a little bit if there's a big bold "do not post DAE topics here" type of statement staring them in the face.

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[deleted]•

I see a problem.

The subreddit mods seem to think that each subreddit is their own little dominion, and that every single user of reddit understands that they are expected to navigate to r/fellateme, read the little panel on the right, ask a mod if they have any questions, then finally post a link if they feel it is appropriate.

But I suspect what most people do is:

www.reddit.com
Click "Submit"
Fill in the title & linky
Pick a subreddit that seems appropriate based on its title
Click "Submit"

Subreddit mods are like university administrators who will do anything to get people to walk on the sidewalks, completely ignoring the well-worn path directly across the quad. "We'll replant the path, put fences up, post a guard, and fine anyone who walks on the grass."

"Or, we could just pave the trail."

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Etab•

You should distinguish this post so you'd be karmanaut and the FSM.

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Yserbius•

Only to you. karmanaut ain't no friend of mine.

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karmanautOP•

Done.

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SantiagoRamon•

I see him as SMF...what a let down

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[deleted]•

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

Maybe it's because I watched Pulp Fiction the other night, but my mind immediately shot to this when I read that.

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chemicalcloud•

AMC?

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VulturE•

Could you update the "GUIDE" part on the right side of the subreddit to include this new rule? Just simply saying "hey dont do this" and not including it in the rules would go unnoticed by newcomers.

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[deleted]•

Hardcore.

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Die-Bold•

Weak.

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razzark666•

Yea I checked first to make sure a mod made this message... Otherwise I was going to post "DAE hate it when people tell them what to do?"

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stringer4•

DAE hate when bad/annoying things happen to them?

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Neebat•

If so, they just waste the moderators time with all the banning.

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LocutusOfReddit•

DAE not give a flying ...

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wildncrazyguy•

Yo dawg, I heard you like DAE, so I put DAE in a subreddit DAE so you could DAE in the /DAE !!!~!

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ThisBelongsIn•

Dammit, Karmanaut, you're going to put me out of a job.

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[deleted]•

wtf alt text? Do an AMA

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christopheles•

[Reddit.com] (http://reddit.com "What's new online.")

Syntax mystery solved

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[deleted]•

BUT THEN HOW DID YOU WRITE THAT?!

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christopheles•

My keyboard.

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011235•

There is a space between the [] and ()). Try copying and pasting:
[Reddit.com] (http://reddit.com "What's new online.")

Here's the true mystery:
[Reddit.com](http://reddit.com "What's new online.")

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pdinc•

escape all the characters with a \

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13374L•

HE WAS PHONE

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Iguanaforhire•

I would assume that the knowledge comes from here.

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redwall_hp•

It's WITCHCRAFT!

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elleare•

Karmawhore

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ShadyJane•

This is AskReddit and you did not submit your thread in the form of a question.

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BritishEnglishPolice•

There's always one smartass who posts this whenever we post a mod post. How about:

"Attention AskReddit: Do not submit "Does Anyone Else" style posts in this subreddit. You understand?"

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TheEllimist•

MY FAVORITE IS "A WITTY SAYING PROVES NOTHING." VOLTAIRE SAID THAT! DO YOU GET IT? IT'S SO CLEVER.

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JewboiTellem•

I was under the impression it was Mark Twain.

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KaylaS•

My favourite is "Love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down." Captian Reynolds said that at the end of Serenity! Isn't it BEAUTIFUL?! he is so sensitive...

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[deleted]•

I'll allow it.

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[deleted]•

English, motherfucker. Do you speak it?

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workroom•

I knew he was studying law, but now he's getting into laying it down too!

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krues8dr•

Your mother, Trebek!

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Bornhuetter•

To be honest, most of the time they belong here

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Bornhuetter•

I could try to say something witty about the re-post being a subtle, intentional reference to circlejerk and trolling; but I won't. I forgot to ctrl-f.

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[deleted]•

Another guy obsessed with circle-jerks! Only on Reddit...

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davidreiss666•

I would have gone with /dev/null. But maybe that's just me.

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washer•

"If you're looking for affirmation of something you do or think..."

THANK YOU.

I find myself saying a few times a day things like, "I wonder if anyone else is worried that when they put their ice trays in the fridge, that if they stack one on top of the other the bottom of the one will dirty the water in the other." Then I realize how insanely mundane that notion is and disregard it. No DAE on my frontpage, no sir.

Thanks for keeping this subreddit for intriguing, insightful questions.

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stonemite•

one will dirty the water in the other

It's always nice to know I'm not alone. I just do 1 tray at a time now to avoid this irrationality that my brain refuses to let go of.

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TJ11240•

Stack them diagonally

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karmanautOP•

Thanks for trying to keep this subreddit for intriguing, insightful questions

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barkbarkbark•

Almost as insightful as yesterdays "SO WHAT IS REDDIT'S FAVORITE COLOR?"

I'm not angry, I swear.

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copasetic•

That one was ridiculous.

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rivalius13•

Obviously the answer is Orangered.

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viborg•

One more like this one and I'm done with AskReddit: "If gingers have no soul...is it due to the lack of pigment? And is that why black people have so much soul?"

Which led of course to this incredibly insightful comment (one of the top rated):

Ginger is an anagram of 'Nigger'
think about it.

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[deleted]•

Is it untrue?

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[deleted]•

Hey, so what's the difference between two dicks and a joke?

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davidreiss666•

Well, when you're correct you are correct. Reddit has been undergoing more than a bit of a down-hill slide for a while.

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barkbarkbark•

A while? Try about three years. Ever since I started coming here. I was/am the reason.

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Psychomedic•

I posted that yesterday and got downvoted too! Highfive!

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[deleted]•

You're so bloody serious in this thread. It's a subreddit, not your job, relax.

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dschneider•

Does anyone else get annoyed by Reddit posts about Reddit posts?

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[deleted]•

Yo dawg...

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Pilate•

Now just post this twice a week to make sure everybody sees it and voila!

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Literati•

Or make the link to DAE more prominent in the sidebar.

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Itkovan•

And.... at most 4 hours after your post, it is!

Thanks to whomever did that.

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LinuxFreeOrDie•

It's been there the whole time...that was kind of the joke, but one ever looks over there I guess.

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Duodecim•

Now it's bold.

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sadz79•

what's this sidebar you speak of?

edit: /f <--- my facetious tag

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Introvert•

The stuff on your right.

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keyboardsmash•

You have the world's most useless scrollbar on your comment. Though it does make your text dance.

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Rosco7•

If you're looking for affirmation of something you do or think

...

That way, we avoid loaded questions and let users speak for themselves instead of just agreeing or disagreeing.

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Thanks for trying to keep this subreddit for intriguing, insightful questions

What about posts that, while containing some variation of "Does anyone else" in the title, are more than just "loaded questions" seeking affirmation? Right now on AskReddit, I see "Has anyone else stopped following the news because its just so depressing?" which opens the floor for an interesting discussion of media sensationalism and links to other news sources. Is this okay, or should the poster have been required to rephrase his post to something like, "I have stopped watching the news because it's so depressing. How do others deal with this?"

It seems that you're saying that if your post contains the taboo words "Does anyone else", then it should be banished to a less-popular subreddit, regardless of the quality of the question.

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[deleted]•

You're assuming that the Has anyone else stopped following the news because its just so depressing? post was interesting enough to warrant a discussion that hadn't already been had two hundred times for a hundred years or more.

My first thought to answer to that question was: "Yeah, Wordsworth, Twain, Vonnegut, and a lot of other people." The news is depressing because it's about people, and most things of note that people do are depressing. This isn't new, surprising, or really even that interesting.

Your suggestion is actually a much better question, because it provides for a real answer. It could be shorter: "What are some unbiased news sources?" Good question begets a good answer.

Half of the original question just got r/circlejerk responses of "Yeah, news sucks."

(Basically I just elaborated on what ngroot said.)

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ngroot•

It seems that you're saying that if your post contains the taboo words "Does anyone else", then it should be banished to a less-popular subreddit, regardless of the quality of the question.

I am a-OK with that. If you have an interesting question and you're phrasing it as a DAE, you're not highlighting the interesting part anyway and should be phrasing the question better.

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cppcpp•

Please submit to r/bitchy/.

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KaylaS•

But... but... you can't talk to karmanaut that way!

Can you?

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[deleted]•

So if there's a subreddit for every different kind of question, what the hell do we need this subreddit for?

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ngroot•

Non-poll questions. DAE and circlejerk are for polling and wankery.

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Reductive•

Look at the sidebar. Do you have a question that doesn't fit better in the other reddits listed in the sidebar? If so, that question goes in askreddit. It's not very difficult.

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Die-Bold•

This man asks the question that begs to be asked.

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[deleted]•

Subreddit Nazi.

I feel the current subreddit system is one of the weak points of Reddit. It has become so fine grained in divisions that it is difficult to get post seen, or find stuff you want to see without being an expert in the layout. We need a more defined hierarchy, where top post of very specific subreddits are rolled up into the more general subreddits which are then roled up into the front page. I am getting tried of subreddits all of sudden losing post I like only to find that another new subreddit was created. It is becoming more a chore to check reddit than it should.

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KevinMcCallister•

This is a great idea. I think it would help reddit a lot, make it much easier for users to navigate posts, especially casual users and newcomers.

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Munkcy•

You're proposing a full-blown taxonomy and hierarchical tree. I don't know if Reddit/Condé Nast have the manpower or desire to build out something like that.

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gigaquack•

You're saying Reddit should become more like Digg?

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happyscrappy•

This isn't the right subreddit for bitching about subreddits... BANNED

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TheMarshma•

I think the problem occurs because people think that they won't get as much views in the DAE subreddit, so they post in the general reddit. The humorous part of that is if these people don't find the DAE reddit interesting enough, they won't find your post interesting either. So you can only stand to win by posting to the audience that will be most receptive to your post.

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p3on•

clearly

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SensationalistTitles•

Karmanazi Ruins AskReddit! Thousands -Frontpage

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beardybaldy•

I think the proper way to fear monger would be to call him "Karmanazi"

I'm really glad I went to the Glenn Beck fearmongering seminar.

DAE want to buy gold?

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fallenangel42•

I prefer to think of him as 'Karmanaughty' - emphasise the cheeky side of his nature.

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karmanaughty•

Agreed

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yiddish_policeman•

The internet = SERIOUS BUSINESS

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really_bad_news•

The appropriate subreddit for most posts would be r/circlejerk.

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[deleted]•

Another guy obsessed with circle-jerks! Only on Reddit...

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YouWillDownvote•

Shut your fucking mouth karmanaut.

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Mr_Clownn•

I can't believe this bullshit is on the top of my front page right now. Fucking unreal.

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[deleted]•

Downvoting this only ensures that people won't know the policy. It will just have to be posted again

I'm kind of new around here, but I've been told that complaining about your downvotes is bad form.

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antifolkhero•

Attention AskReddit: whiny posts tsk-tsking people on reddit are annoying and useless.

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