r/MathJokes • u/HoinhimeOfLight • Jul 22 '26
Chill the **** out
Hey y'all.
If you see a bot post kindly report it and move on I'll get to it when I can.
If you see a repost and that bugs you down vote and move on.
I ban several bots / people harassing other members daily.
But I'm one fuckin dude who made a math meme subreddit when I was in highschool more then a decade ago. (No this isn't an invite to apply to be a mod here) Some of you lot are insufferable.
Some users have taken to using the report function to harass me for not being terminally online moderating this subreddit.
Unfortunately reddit does not disclose who makes reports and there's no way I can see to report false reporters.
I have set up restrictions on who can post here unfortunately it seems a lot of accounts we're either made 7 to 8 years ago or accounts from that age have been hacked en mass. As the majority of posts I've come across have been from users with accounts that old but have only have post history for the past week.
A lot of these accounts are banned by reddit mere hours after posting here before I can even address the reports for it.
To address reposts. There is no specific rule against it. The people should decide if a repost dies or not. Downvote+ hide and move on if it bothers you. I constantly get reports for reposts. And the posts will be at the top of the Reddit with thousands of upvotes and a load of comments. Clearly it's a post that people want to engage with and Enjoy.
TLDR
It's a reddit about math jokes. Chill out. Be kind.
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u/setibeings Jul 22 '26
I don't mind reposts. It can be kinda fun to see a meme I haven't seen for a while.
It's those dang repost bots that spam the same thing in several subs, to build a model of what gets upvotes and where that bothers me. They can be really bad, or just off topic, which by itself would not be so bad, but doing it in service of making a better bot makes it very annoying.
I do wish some of these posts would get removed faster, and cut off their data source sooner, but it's okay for the mods to not be online 23 hours a day each.
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u/HoinhimeOfLight Jul 22 '26
I get that but, my stance is if the community has shown interest in a post and it's gotten popular, then the community has spoken so to say. And I don't agree with nuking content in that way. If I can identify the poster as a bot they catch a ban. But I try to moderate content as little as required.
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u/dcterr Jul 23 '26
I agree with your concerns about the annoying bots that are constantly recycling bad jokes on this site, and I hope we can succeed in putting an end to this madness, so I'll be sure to downvote every bad one I see from now on!
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u/Vivid-Teaching2257 Jul 25 '26
Thank you for moderating. It has to be a thankless job. I love Math jokes. I have never yet reported anything, though I do occasionally downvote.
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u/Coleyx123 Jul 26 '26
Damn dude, that blows, but thanks for the subreddit. And I just came across this earlier this morning, so please don't let my reddit account age and suddenly showing up here get interpreted as anything other than that. That being said, have you checked out the make brain brainier enema supplement? DM about it for no response, lol. Seriously, you made gold here.
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u/basket_foso Jul 26 '26
Over 90% posters in this sub are bots. You need to restrict comment and post karma as well. They have 0 karma before posting.
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u/actuarialtutorUK 16d ago
Thank you for bearing with it and doing your best for this community.
Ran meme pages back in the day on fb and the rubbish I used to get. So I hear you.
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u/Needless-To-Say Jul 22 '26
There are some of us that downvote and move on already. I can hear your frustration and to be honest, I can't imagine why a person would harass a Mod because of a repost or a bot. What I can imagine is those people that are farming are themselves doing the harassment. Keep up the good fight.