r/nothingeverhappens • u/MaximusDoot • 4d ago

Can we just ban all posts from r/untrustworthypoptarts?

The subreddit is not for posts OP thinks are fake, the subreddit is for acknowledging that a post and the provided picture could easily be faked. It's low hanging fruit at this point.

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u/CriticalHit_20 3d ago

But there are screenshots posted here constantly of people using the other sub Correctly. The screenshot will say something like "you could have just put a Sweedish fish in your hand" with no other text in the screenshot, and it will be posted here.
It's lazy, circlejerky, and worst: uninteresting.

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u/Chaos-Corvid 3d ago

Hey so I actually went and checked, this isn't even true, the rules of the sub make the intention pretty clear.

This sounds like a plausible deniability thing from fans of a sub that don't like being made fun of.

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u/CriticalHit_20 3d ago

Sure you did, buddy.

Rule 1 on that sub:

It should make you say, "How do we know you just didn't put that there?"

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE DEFINITIVELY FAKED. So long as it's untrustworthy, it fits.

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u/Chaos-Corvid 3d ago

Correct, it doesn't have to be proven fake, it just has to seem fake.

That's how pretty much any subreddit of that nature works.

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u/CriticalHit_20 3d ago

The pinned post on that sub speaks directly to this. Reread the last paragraph as well:

This sub is for stuff that's UNTRUSTWORTHY. It doesn't matter whether the pic you submit is real or not, only that it seems untrustworthy.

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We don't care whether a pic is real or not. We're not r/karmaconspiracy. We're not interested in reaching a conclusion on a post's veracity.

And we are not r/thathappened, either. We're not saying the image was definitely staged. Only that it looks fishy AF.

If you end up crossposting us on r/ nothingeverhappens, you're missing the point of this sub. No one is saying that OOP is lying or making stuff up for karma, only that they can't be trusted

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u/Chaos-Corvid 2d ago edited 2d ago

"Only that it looks fishy"

That absolutely fits with this sub, since it's about being skeptical of reasonable things. I think it's you guys missing the point of this sub.

Be reasonable, everything you've said can also apply to "that happened", they don't require proof that it's false, they don't care, they just say it seems fake.

And here, people poke fun at that, because a lot of the time what's being called fishy just isn't.

I actually like both kinds of subs for what it's worth, but yours is pretending to have some extra nuance when it's just an unspoken quality of the entire genre, seems entirely to be because of some weird anger at subs like this existing. I know this is Reddit and that's how people act, but come on now.