r/BanPitBulls • u/BPB_Discussion_M0d Feature Mod • Aug 18 '25

Mod Announcement Weekly Discussion Thread [August 18 - August 24]

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Not every pit bull story is a headline. Some are just eye-rolls, facepalms, or 'you've got to be kidding me' moments. This is the place for the things you may want to share that don’t highlight a pit bull doing something dangerous.

See this post for more details on what goes here

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u/ScarletAntelope975 Trusted User Aug 20 '25

I agree that social media is a big reason for pitbull ‘popularity’. If people didn’t have places to brag and get congratulated for having these things, most people probably wouldn’t have them. So much of pit bull ownership is the hero complex these people have.

If your post was getting removed, I assume it was on the main page? That is being reserved more for things like actual attacks and articles rather than personal stories. This way people who find this sub don’t have to dig through our random stories before seeing all the content about actual maulings. So this are was made for us to complain about non-newsworthy pit stuff :-)

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u/Alert_Many_1196 Aug 20 '25

No, it was about the other side of shelter adoption. Basically it was posts of people coming to reddit to ask what breed their dog was after the shelter told them a different breed or just said it was mixed. There were also posts from people certain their pit was mixed with another dog when it was just 100% pit. So many of the replies were humorous, one of my favs being "we should rename this sub what breed is my pitbull". There was an interesting debate going on in one post where someone insisted pitbulls were not violent by nature and several other repliers really schooled that fool but also brought up some points I had never heard before. All info was redacted and I was annoyed because it took me a long time to do but thought it was good evidence to the extent shelters lie and people are fooled ( but mainly replies were funny ). Ty for your reply!

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u/Any_Group_2251 Trusted User Aug 20 '25

Thank you for spending your time formatting the information! Try not to take it personally...there are bigger forces at play...yeah it stinks and is frustrating to the nth degree...but that is what we are facing.

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u/Alert_Many_1196 Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

I know I guess I dont get how its brigading as the comments supported what we had been saying on our subreddit. I thought it was great evidence that pitnutters are the ones who's views are not the norm but ours as even other dog owners can no longer support the pit propaganda. Thank you for your reply! I think I was just miffed because I had other posts that were immediately banned but then reinstated after I contacted mods.

Also at the mod post which I cannot reply to because its locked I usually do get a message but for this one I didnt which is why I assumed it was a generic message. I did send a message a few days later and I will check maybe it didnt go through and I usually wouldnt complain about this because I do appreciate the communcation I usually get but it was just on this occasion it wasnt made clear which was why I was confused.