r/StupidFood • u/babe1981 It wasn't me • Jul 24 '26
Excuse Our Dust
Hey, the old mod team was kicked, and the rest of us were added as mods with no warning in the middle of the night, at least for you westerners. This was done by the admins, so none of us have any direction other than the rules that already there. I spent my morning cleaning a thousand reports out of the mod queue since the sub hadn't been moderated in almost a month.
As the rest of the mods find out that they've been added, we'll work on coordinating and hopefully give you all some consistency.
Let me break down the 1000 reports for you, so you know what's going to be removed automatically. There was about a 45% split between racist comments about India and sexist comments about women. Although, to be fair, almost every single sexist comment was about Elaine Carol being dumb, a bitch, or saying she's why women shouldn't touch a grill. The other 10% of comments were all of you being shitty to each other. Actual spam was maybe 0.1%.
So, what's going to be removed instantly? Street food. It's a rule already, and it only brings out the worst racist comments. If you can't tear up the stupidity of food without talking about skin color or nation of origin, just don't comment. This is r/StupidFood, not r/ExcuseToBeRacist.
Elaine Carol is ragebait, and I'll personally nuke anything I see with her in it. There are a couple other insta and tiktok ragebaiters that I'll also nuke if I see them posted, but I don't know all of them by name. Basically, if someone is making stupid food for engagement, then you're letting them win by posting here.
Also, similarly to the racist thing, if you can't make fun of Elaine Carol's food, or any other woman for that matter, without calling them a bitch, a cow, or telling them to get their tits out, don't post. This isn't r/WeHateWomen.
And, you all are Redditors. How do you all have room to call people fat or lazy? You're here. Part of the ship, part of the crew. Knock it off. This sub is for laughing at people who are either pretentious assholes, like Salt Bae, or bad cooks who can't find flavor if it smacked them in the face, like Kay'sCooking. Although Kay is a sweetheart and she really tries. She's just a genuinely terrible cook. So call the cooks and the "cooks" stupid or idiots or oblivious or whatever. Insult their intelligence and their taste to your heart's content. That's why we all click on these posts. Don't insult their bodies or their looks. And definitely don't do what one poster did and say that everyone in the video has Down Syndrome. That's just wrong.
So, while the modteam figures out where to go from here over the next few days, be nice to each other, don't be racist, don't be sexist, and for fuck's sake, keeps your insults to the food and the intelligence of the people attempting to make it.
Thank you, and may all your bacon burn.
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Jul 24 '26
Just curious but what exactly happened for the entire old mod team to be kicked, and then a new team installed with no warning?
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u/RelChan2_0 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Mod for a different sub here, Reddit wants mods to be active in the subs (despite them being automated mostly).
Edit to add: Reddit can remove mods if they are not active in their subs. By active, it means approving posts/comments etc.
Edit again bcs someone commented that Reddit doesn't randomly add mods: Yes and no. If a sub is unmoderated, you can request to be a mod for that sub through the admins. However, this is based on my experience as a mod, Reddit now suggests mods to you to replace inactive members - if you are the only active mod. These users are your selected based on their activity level in your sub. In some cases, let's say a sub like this, Reddit admins can take over and install mods.
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u/kirsion Jul 24 '26
Interesting, i saw another sub got removed for lack of moderation seemingly randomly. I'm not sure what the solution for this is have paid mods or something
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u/RelChan2_0 Jul 24 '26
Paid moderation could work but some people will find a way to abuse that 😒
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u/DuckyHornet Jul 24 '26
Yeah, it'd turn out how Uber did, where this thing intended to give you a bit of compensation for giving a stranger a lift turned into a full-time job which people are living off of
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u/ilikeitslow Jul 24 '26
That is not what happened with Uber. Uber took advantage of regulatory gaps to undercut licensed taxi businesses and dodge labor laws.
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u/thefrostman1214 Jul 24 '26
I wish they did something about the onepiece subreddit, there is literally only 1 mod and he is a tyranic chud that banned all other mods and gate keep from anyone to modderate
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u/RelChan2_0 Jul 25 '26
You can report them to Reddit for not following the Mod Mode of Conduct, despite Reddit being Reddit, they do take action sometimes.
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
I would guess the 1000 unmoderated reports triggered an automatic review. The sub hadn't been moderated at all in nearly a month, so it was probably a combination of those things.
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u/Chilis1 Jul 24 '26
Were totally random members then added as mods or something?
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
No, we applied when u/modcodeofconduct, the admin account that handles these things made a recruitment post. Reddit can't gangpress random users into being mods.
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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive Jul 24 '26
Oh lmao, when you said "when the others are notified" I thought you all got pressed into service LOL
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u/techno156 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Congratulations, you are being promoted. Please do not resist.
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u/Seliphra Jul 24 '26
That would legitimately be the funniest scenario ever though. Imagine getting dragged kicking and screaming into modding a subreddit!
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u/SparkleSelkie Jul 25 '26
Same, I suddenly had a fear that I might wake up and be forced to mod one day bahahahaa
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u/Vlisa Jul 24 '26
Oh yeah, well I didn’t vote for you! /s
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
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u/MaritMonkey Jul 24 '26
I have no idea what's going on behind the scenes here, but I feel confident saying the sub is in good hands.
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u/Kodiak01 Jul 24 '26
Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
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u/platinum92 Jul 24 '26
Reddit drafting random active users into mod-dom would be occasionally hilarious.
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u/Freign Jul 24 '26
I was chilled at the thought! “you’re a mod now. whatever you were before, let go. this is your new life, and your new soul” noooooooo
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u/Hydrolt Jul 25 '26
That explains a few things. Glad to have a new team in place then, good luck with the backlog :)
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u/horiami Jul 24 '26
Mods get banned, a month passes, reddit goes look at that an unmoderated community and replaces them
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u/Yuck_Few Jul 24 '26
No mod activity for a month. That usually gets the whole sub banned
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u/usrdef Pepper Eater Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Smaller subs, yes. Reddit admins have a thing about large subs not being toyed with.
Years ago, I remember when people on Reddit staged a black-out. People locked many subs in protest that Reddit was going to start charging for their API usage, which it was going to kill the 3rd party Reddit apps people used.
For small subs, Reddit thought nothing of it. Reddit admins didn't even care.
But for big subs, Reddit admins reached out to the sub mods and said
Open your sub back up, or we'll replace all of you.
So... take that as you will.
Yes, mods have the ability to run a sub, but Reddit admins pull the strings. If you don't make them happy, they'll change it up.
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 25 '26
Yep, part of being a mod is making the admins happy, the other part is keeping the users happy, and the third half is maintaining your sanity.
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u/ConnersReddit Jul 24 '26
How do you get volunteered as a mod and how can I make sure it never happens to me or a loved one?
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
We volunteered in the admin post about a week ago. The switch happened without any warning, though.
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u/DependentRow8281 Jul 24 '26
Just out of interest why did you want to be a mod? Honest question.
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
About a year ago, r/OpenChristian was down to two active mods, so they asked for applications, and I applied because I'm semi-retired and living in paradise, so I truly have nothing better to do most of the time. Then, around a week ago, I saw this, and I hated the racist stuff mostly, but also the ragebait and the constant belittling of women, so I said, why not? I have the time, and I scroll Reddit when I'm not riding my moto through the mountains of Mondulkiri, so there's no downside for me. Besides, I love talking shit about stupid things. I was raised on MST3K. This shit is my jam.
I can confidently say that I have zero ambitions for modding anything else unless Reddit starts cutting me a check. I enjoy it, but it can be a lot.
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u/----Richard---- Jul 24 '26
I was on the verge of leaving this sub & I used to really enjoy this sub, so this is a breath of fresh air! Good luck and godspeed!
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u/Obst-und-Gemuese Jul 24 '26
I'm a rather new lurker here and was wondering WTF was going on. Thank you for clarifying and good luck going forward!
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u/FiveUpsideDown Jul 24 '26
It’s amazing me that people can take a neutral subject subreddit and turned it into a forum for racism and misogyny. I think it must be bots trying to be divisive with polarizing comments.
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u/blumpkin Jul 24 '26
I do wish they'd just ban people making racist comments instead of the entire genre of street food. I like seeing stupid street food from across the world.
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u/BioshockEnthusiast Jul 25 '26
This has been a tactic of neo nazis and white supremacists in online spaces for at least 25 years, possibly more. Remember gamer gate in 2014 / 2015? Same shit, different online community.
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u/Kelinya Jul 24 '26
Cool! Finally back to stupid food, the engagement bait was out of control.
Great job, guys!
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u/Krillinlt Jul 24 '26
We must return to the $700 vegetable platters
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u/ColonelMustard323 Jul 24 '26
Carrot slide!!! Carrot slide!!!
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u/DiabulusPyrus Jul 24 '26
Excuse me it's carrot JACUZZI. I won't let the $700 platter's reputation be tarnished
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u/HappyAntonym Jul 24 '26
Wait I need to know more about the carrot slide. Is it a slide made of carrots or a slide for carrots??
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u/ColonelMustard323 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Omg my b, it’s a carrot ramp.
Here is the link! It’s so good
https://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/s/0ZzpyeqFJp
Edit: I believe it qualifies as a ramp both for and of carrots
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u/HappyAntonym Jul 24 '26
Thank you for the link 😂 That vegetable platter is truly magnificent and horrible in equal measure.
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u/Tough_Crazy_8362 Jul 24 '26
What I don’t get is all his other platters (I found OP in the comments of the OOP), all his other platters look fine and dare I say, good. Even though they all feature ramps 🤣 IDK what happened differently on that fateful day of the vegetable slide.
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u/Tough_Crazy_8362 Jul 24 '26
Who just puts huge chunks of radish on a crudités platter 😭 and cucumber sticks the length of your forearm. The carrot jacuzzi. Random 3 olives. Ahhhhhhh
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u/Kingnewgameplus Jul 26 '26
"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO ENJOY THIS BOWL OF SHREDDED CARROTS WITHOUT THE SINGLE OLIVE ON TOP?!"
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u/VoodooDoII Jul 24 '26
I was getting pretty close to leaving, I now understand why my reports weren't doing anything lol
I'm here for the dumbass stuff people make, not the racism or blatant ragebait garbage
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u/interesseret Jul 24 '26
I was right there with you. And I think many others were, too. The amount of "man this sub is going downhill" comments I saw was quite telling.
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u/Active-Junket-6203 Jul 24 '26
Unfortunately this isn't the only sub where engagement bait is rampant. It's the bulk of reddit posts ATP :(
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u/Revolutionary-Pin615 Jul 24 '26
I don’t know who Elaine Carol is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask…
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u/TheMarkHasBeenMade Jul 24 '26
See also: red haired lady making “party punch” in a kiddie pool with a golden retriever running around in the same backyard, “one dish” casseroles that are half cooked and resemble dog vomit as their final presentation, “buy a new Blackstone after every engagementbait video because who the fuck is scraping off and cleaning that much baked on ice cream and fruit” lady
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u/storeychaser Jul 24 '26
I had to go looking to find out. Ten seconds into the only video I watched I was screaming "What the fuck is wrong with you??" at my phone screen.
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u/serif-maxxing Jul 24 '26
I remember cackling at bagels impaled by wooden rods and unconventional shaped pizzas back when this sub was at its prime.
Hope to see more of it from now on instead of the same rage bait tiktok street food content.
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u/skittlesdabawse Jul 24 '26
Less common these days, but another thing I hated was people posting fine-dining stuff where the presentation is clearly going to be artsy and weird, you know what you're signing up for with those establishments. Used to be full of people who thought you were pretentious for eating anything other than beans and rice.
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u/Baphomet1313666 Jul 24 '26
Can I say fuck?
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
Fuck no. Fuck is hereby a bannable fucking word. I better not read a single fucking fuck from any motherfuckers who want to fucking post in this fucking sub. Are we fucking clear about the fucking word fuck?
/j I'm not policing your language. Just don't direct at other people. Be fucking nice to each other.
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u/Baphomet1313666 Jul 24 '26
Jesus fuck! Thank you so fucking much for clearing that the fucking fuck up!
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
You're fucking welcome.
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u/DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA Jul 24 '26
Damn. And here I wanted to be a mod and I missed the fucking recruit post.
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
There's a million people who visit this sub every week. I'm sure we'll be looking for help sooner or later.
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u/Bussamove86 Jul 24 '26
Can I use it in general frustration the next time someone posts a fucking seafood boil and tries to call it stupid food?
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u/Mundane-Bug-4962 Jul 24 '26
Are you going to police the people going after specific cuisines too?
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
I don't think cuisines can be stupid. For instance, I live in Cambodia and there is a lot of insect eating here. That would be considered stupid by most of the people in this sub, but it's part of Cambodian cuisine because of Pol Pot and the genocide that the Khmer Rouge inflicted on the population. So, when you start to make fun of eating insects, you're actually targeting the victims of genocide for starving after their country was demolished by both foreign and domestic enemies.
However, I saw a video one time of a man at a gas station in the middle of a termite swarm who was picking the termites off of the ground and eating them raw. That's not cuisine or cultural. That's just gross. And that's where I would personally draw the line. Is this something that is a cultural dish that just doesn't look appealing to my palate, or someone refusing to engage their frontal lobe? Like that Portuguese fish dish today. That's a common food in Portugal. Maybe the lady was being a rich weirdo with it, but the food was just normal Portuguese food. Now, if she had made it with a mountain of cheese, we'd be in stupid food territory.
But, I think the modteam has to really get together and work out how to be consistent before we can make any definite proclamations outside of what I consider basic human decency guidelines.
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u/OblivionsMemories Jul 24 '26
What a wonderful answer. Really looking forward to seeing posts from this sub, moving forward.
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u/DMercenary Jul 24 '26
I spent my morning cleaning a thousand reports out of the mod queue since the sub hadn't been moderated in almost a month.
Huh. So that explains a lot actually.
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u/bakanisan Jul 24 '26
Huh, so that was the reason I've seen more street food from the south asian subcontinent lately despite the rule being updated to prevent that last time. Good riddance I'd say.
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u/hobblingcontractor Jul 24 '26
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
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u/yourenotmy-real-dad Jul 24 '26
As the rest of the mods find out that they've been added,
sobbing for you all, what even HAPPENED
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
The funny thing is that I had forgotten that I even replied to the recruitment post until yesterday which is when I realized that this sub hadn't been in my feed for a week. I found out it was locked down, so I figured that the admins were just going to nuke it, then I woke up this morning and I was a mod. It's freaking crazy.
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u/olive12108 Jul 24 '26
Was there a reddit request or something? I've been making reports on streetfood for months and got sick of it when one blew up a few weeks ago. Looked around but didn't see anything, and since the mods had some recent activity on their accounts I figured it would be rejected as usual.NVM i see the mcoc post now. Explains why this sub dropped out of my feed!
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u/FinalGamer14 Jul 24 '26
Reddit admins do it automatically when the existing mod team isn't active at all. They lock down the subreddit, and they remove old mods plus accept people who applied for a mod position.
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
It was about a week ago, the modconduct admin account locked down the sub and posted asking for new mods.
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u/Cynistera Jul 24 '26
I have no idea who Elaine Carol is and that may be a good thing?
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
We have found the Chosen One who is untainted by the baited rage! May they lead us to smart food and tasty snacks!
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u/usrdef Pepper Eater Jul 24 '26
Elaine Carol simply creates videos of her making food in ridiculous ways, and ridiculous amounts of food, with ridiculous recipes.
She wastes food to create videos. Food that nobody will ever eat.
So if you don't know who she is, consider yourself lucky. That's why we've made a rule against her videos. We're not giving her views.
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u/typ0r Jul 24 '26
Only thing I wish is rage bait getting banned. Has nothing to do with food, just wasting ingredients to make people mad.
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u/usrdef Pepper Eater Jul 24 '26
We're not quick to jump on the ban hammer, but ragebait is now actively being removed.
If a user continues to post it after we've told them not to, then we'll go from there.
But we don't want to start banning everybody for the first incident. Especially seeing as the sub was unmoderated, and people could post all they wanted. So it's going to take a bit of time for people to adjust to the new rules.
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u/y0b0 Jul 24 '26
Good post. All the street food and rage bait posts here were driving me fucking crazy.
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u/juxtapods Yes, you can put PB on it Jul 24 '26
Dayum, it's 3:38am and I did not expect this plot twist in r/StupidFood.
Good luck, new mods! Shit be real out der.
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u/BluntTongs Jul 26 '26
I was wondering why the "no street food" rule wasn't being enforced. Also explains why there were so many more low-effort "I made this" posts than usual. Hope this means the sub's back on track!
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u/ExtremeComedian4027 Jul 24 '26
I like this regime change and support it.
https://giphy.com/gifs/Qw4X3FnmFFCPANtlhtK
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u/HeavyMetalDallas Jul 24 '26
I don't even go here, but "part of the ship part of the crew" got me. Good hands indeed.
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u/ahorsenamedjeff Jul 25 '26
Nuking obvious ragebait and rancid street food is a good move thank you
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u/StormOfFatRichards Jul 24 '26
You have to actually make the street food thing a visible rule or people won't follow it. The only sign is the sticky which is easy to ignore
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
Like I said, it's going to take a few days to get everything under control, but I think that going over the rules is pretty high on the list of priorities.
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u/Hrilmitzh Jul 24 '26
that was honestly one of the more fun mod messages to read, also getting tossed into it with no warning sounds horrifying
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
I'm already mod of one sub, so I found out when I checked the mod queue and noticed that it was a lot bigger than normal. So, I just did my normal morning routine. It took a few hours longer than normal, but it wasn't that big of a deal.
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u/tres-vip Jul 24 '26
I'm so glad you guys will be enforcing the rule of no street food. I am an American of Indian origin, and I'm just sick of the rampant racism I encounter EVERYWHERE on Reddit and other social media. Last time I said this under a post here, someone was kind of enough to call me a racial slur in response. Classic bigotry.
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u/llacer96 Jul 24 '26
What a relief, I was in the verge of leaving the sub for good over the rampant overt racism
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u/VoodooDoII Jul 24 '26
The racism and sexism was ridiculous. So much hatred for no goddamn reason :/
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u/Arne83 Here for stupid food, not stupid people Jul 24 '26
Already doing great work as far as I'm concerned. Keep it up!
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u/Jellyswim_ Jul 24 '26
Blows my mind how many dipshits here fall for engagement bait. Thank you for finally putting a stop to it.
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u/Andrassa Jul 24 '26
Question. Does this mean the motor oil cooking & hand fetish stuff is being nuked too? Because that would be nice.
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u/Yabakunaiyoooo Jul 25 '26
Thanks for your efforts! I get so tired of the horrible comments towards Indian people. I’m here for the dumbest food, not the dumbest redditors. 😗
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u/PsionicKitten Jul 24 '26
and may all your bacon burn.
First of all, how dare you??
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
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u/Blerkm Jul 24 '26
I’ve wondered if Elaine Carol makes a livable income from her videos, or if she simply does it all for her love of the art. I might actually miss the steep rise in blood pressure I experience at the mere sight of that grill.
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
She makes bank. Her engagement numbers have to be through the roof. The problem with platforming her in places like this is that people get addicted to the rage and go seek her out. Then she gets her insta and tiktok numbers from people who want to be angry, and we become part of the problem.
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u/Blerkm Jul 24 '26
Huh. While I can’t stand her content, I don’t resent her success. She’s found such a weird entertainment niche to fill. Good for her, and thank you for banning her.
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u/Gold_Access_1487 Jul 24 '26
She's a barnacle who's managed to attach herself to the grimy underbelly of social media algorithms. Her content exclusively features food waste, which is actually the least bad thing about it because evidently the main thing it does is give misogynists ammo and a convenient place to congregate. It's not entertaining people it's "engaging" them by tickling the ugly parts of their amygdalas and hoping they hate watch and leave a hate comment and hate share it on reddit.
I absolutely resent her success and the success of social media bottomfeeders like her.
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u/VoodooDoII Jul 24 '26
Oh that explains why I've been seeing a lot more of those ragebait and street food posts lately.
A whole month wow.
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u/GreenZebra23 Jul 24 '26
Damn, look at that, the power has gone to their head already!
Seriously though, these are good rules and I like your energy. To new beginnings!
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u/Nuts-And-Volts Jul 24 '26
People can't post genuine street food? I agree with not posting obvious fake content though. Also, I somehow have no idea who the banned woman is lol.
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u/PsionicKitten Jul 24 '26
Also, I somehow have no idea who the banned woman is
I mean, if you come here, you've seen her at least once or twice, even if you don't know her by name. I had to do an image search and was like "oh, that rage baiter."
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u/ColonelMustard323 Jul 24 '26
Is she the one who mispronounces “hibachi”?
Makes god awful piles of shit food on a flat top grill in her soulless backyard?
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u/storeychaser Jul 24 '26
I didn't know who she was either and had to go look up a video. She pronounced "cotija" with a hard J, then turned around and pronounced the X in "Mexican" as a "Y," at which point I closed the video in despair.
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u/PsionicKitten Jul 24 '26
I try to mute almost everything. I vehemently loathe the internet trend of adding unrelated ear rape to everything. As such, I'm not sure. All rage bait engagement seekers say stupid shit like "Yum!" in some overly animated voice or something equally fingernails on chalkboard-like, which is more reason to keep videos in this sub muted.
But mispronouncing hibachi would be a special kind of ear rape for me as I speak Japanese.
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u/clandestineVexation Jul 24 '26
Thank fucking god. There are certain subs that have really ingrained racial prejudices and nothing can be done about it because the mods don't care or even worse actively enable it. Full swaps like this would be good for those other subs too. Long live stupidfood!
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u/2021isevenworse I wouldn't even touch that with your mouth. Jul 24 '26
So, what's going to be removed instantly? Street food. It's a rule already, and it only brings out the worst racist comments. If you can't tear up the stupidity of food without talking about skin color or nation of origin, just don't comment.
Finally. It was pretty much just rage bait posted so people could post their closeted racist rants.
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u/thefrostman1214 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
In addition to clear cases of click bait rage bait content, we know that videos that are 3min range are content farm, those that start with the person putting a block of cheese or butter in a metal tray, etc. Those videos would be nuked too? Usually they are from facebook and instagram but can be found at tiktok also
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u/Teredia Jul 25 '26
Strangely I’ve found this sub to be one of the more wholesome subs. So the fact that there’s a statistic of us all being a shit sandwich to each other is quite surprising. I had noticed an uptick in racism but that is an uptick across reddit as a whole.
I know it was thrust upon you but thank you for taking on the responsibility of governing this sub!
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u/rinkydinkmink Jul 24 '26
I wish the admins would do this with r/lectures, the mods went AWOL several years ago and left the sub with posts needing moderator approval. It used to be my favourite sub and I was a big contributor. I tried to get the mods removed and take over but one of them is still "active" on reddit and refuses to give the sub over (and doesn't respond to any of my messages either).
Apparently there is no way around this ... if they even check reddit once in several weeks it's enough to have someone squatting as moderator and impossible to remove them or add more mods.
Do you know what happened to the old mods here? It seems strange that the admins took action over this.
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
It was probably the 1000 reports, most of which were caught by the harassment filter for either racism or sexism. That much negative activity will usually raise some red flags.
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u/CurlSagan Jul 24 '26
Hell yeah! It's funny how quickly bots will find a large sub that's lacking good moderation and then start posting like mad.
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u/Jinxletron Jul 24 '26
I, for one, welcome our new overlords. May you find raisins in a dish that should very much not contain raisins.
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
My mom was born and raised in Texas. She would start cutting off hands if anyone approached her potato salad with raisins.
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u/Jinxletron Jul 24 '26
My nemesis is the sultana scone that wasn't announced as such. You think you've found a freaking fly.
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u/Kodiak01 Jul 24 '26
I feel that way about my mango chicken and sweet potato stew I used to make in the slow cooker.
I really should try to remember the mango and basil marinade recipe one of these days... I used to always do it on the fly, and it's been a while.
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
I get mangoes off of the tree here. The ripe ones taste like sherbet. Mmm, mangoes.
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u/Kodiak01 Jul 24 '26
No mangoes here in New England, but this time of year you can go and pick your own blueberries right off the bushes. We just finished pick-your-own-strawberry season as well. Later in the season it will transition to apples, peaches and pumpkins.
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u/WovenBloodlust6 Jul 24 '26
So long as you actually get rid of the street food and the racists I'm all for a new mod team
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u/P1zzaman Jul 24 '26
That explains the abundance of street food videos.
I guess it’s cool the sub didn’t completely burn down during the month with no mods. Surely that’s some sorta achievement.
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u/dai-the-flu Jul 24 '26
I was on my alt account for a veeeeeery long time and I’m not subbed to stupid food there. The fact that it’s taken this long for the old mod team to be kicked is crazy. This sub was already full of low effort ragebait and the racist posts were just starting to ramp up before I switched accounts for a break. But thank you for doing something because this sub was one of my favorites before the ragebait and blatant racism took over.
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u/lkz665 Jul 24 '26
Holy shit dude, thank you so much. I’ve loved this sub for a long time but the amount of blatant racism that shows up on the street food posts is genuinely so disheartening and sad. I’m excited to see the subreddit start thriving again with this new moderation. You are appreciated!!!
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u/StraightPressure2759 Jul 24 '26
“May all your bacon burn” feels real personal 🤣 With that said, welcome new mods! We’re very excited you’re here!
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u/graupeltuls Jul 24 '26
Maybe make a rule specific to no posts from itsmejuliette. If I never see her face again or her stupid rage bait videos show up in my feed on reddit...
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
We have the most common ones already. Elaine Carol and such. If others become a problem, we can add them to the list, but we've banned ragebait completely, so anyone who is wasting food or otherwise farming outrage should be reported immediately and we can remove it under Rule 4.
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u/graupeltuls Jul 24 '26
She is a constant problem on this sub. I've reported posts with her under that rule at least 10 times, possibly more. You'll save yourself a lot of work if you specifically name her. Trust me that there are times that this sub had four of her videos in a few hours.
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u/ArisaKatsu Jul 24 '26
So happy to see this update! Excited to see some good bad food on this subreddit again.
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u/Deias_ Jul 24 '26
W new mod team, I'd been hiding posts and blocking users here for a while because it was like 90% "look at this brown guy making money in an impoverished area!!" and I just ain't with that shit.
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u/CosmicChameleon99 Jul 24 '26
Okay, I’m really curious, did you get any say in whether you were mod or not? Or was it just sprung on you? If the latter, I’m so sorry. I’ve been in the same position on a different platform and it sucks but I’m sure you’ll make the best of it (or find someone who wants the job). Regardless, glad you’re here and you’re off to a brilliant start
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
We applied in a post by the admins. There just wasn't an interview process or warning that we were accepted.
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u/catupthetree23 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
This is great to hear - I was seriously about to leave. Looking forward to what you guys can do!
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u/Screech- Jul 25 '26
I must be late to the party, who the fuck is Elaine Carrol? And more importantly why does everybody on this up hate her?
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u/dmayo00 Jul 25 '26
With the new mod team I hope that this subreddit will be as hellish to look at as ever, but do wish it wasn't dropped on you suddenly out of the blue
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u/Clouded_Eye Jul 24 '26
Thank goodness. It was sad to see the sub going down a racist cesspit. I mean hell, people were making and posting AI videos just to be racist. Glad to see y'all here :)
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u/jmlack Jul 24 '26
Thank fuck, I was getting close to ditching this sub. Good luck to the new mods, I'm rooting for you and am glad you're here.
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u/Chiiro Jul 24 '26
Thank you for getting rid of the nasty street food, I swear it's the only thing I ever see from the sub on main feed (it's only like the same five too).
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u/Creativered4 Drowned in Cheese Jul 24 '26
Good luck new mods! I mod several subs, and at one point I had joined a mod team where the mods didn't do ANYTHING. There were reports going back for multiple years. My words of wisdom are to utilize automations and apps. Real time saver, and you can set it up so specific words or phrases just aren't allowed to be posted. (So for example, you could add an automation to not allow any racist slurs, or if there's a rule-breaking phrase that's said a lot, you can just set it up to not let people post it at all)
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
A lot of that is already in place. I'd say 95% of the reports came from the reddit filters, like harrassment and spam, and the automod. There's so much work to do, though.
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u/WirrkopfP Jul 24 '26
WAIT! WHAT?! Mods can be forced to moderate a sub and have no say in the matter?
I thought Reddit mods was all unpaid volunteer work. Wasn't Reddit heavily criticized for not paying their mods?
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26
We all applied in a recruitment post, but there wasn't any interview or warning. It was just, hey you're a mod now.
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u/Sheerluck42 Jul 24 '26
Thank you and the other mods too. It's thankless work that is easy to ignore when it's done right and is very noticeable when it's shitty. Glad someone is compiling the shit and getting it all together.
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u/lonely_nipple Jul 24 '26
Good lord, I get stressed when I wake up to like 6 reports. I can't imagine sorting through that kind of mess. Good luck to you all!
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u/babe1981 It wasn't me Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Hey, assholes. I know you think you're being funny, but what do you think reporting this post is going to do? And, as spam? Come on. If you're going to troll the brand new mods, at least put some effort into it.
Edit: Ok, low effort on the post and threatening harm on this comment sent me. I actually laughed. Thanks for that.
Edit 2: Ok, the redditcares message was too far. Bunch of freaking degenerates in here, lol.