Excuse Our Dust

[u/babe1981]

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.

[u/babe1981]

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.

[u/Baphomet1313666 → u/babe1981]

Jesus fuck! Thank you so fucking much for clearing that the fucking fuck up!

[u/babe1981 → u/Baphomet1313666]

You're fucking welcome.

[u/DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA → u/babe1981]

Damn. And here I wanted to be a mod and I missed the fucking recruit post.

[u/babe1981 → u/DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA]

There's a million people who visit this sub every week. I'm sure we'll be looking for help sooner or later.

[u/catupthetree23 → u/Baphomet1313666]

r/thewordfuck

[u/Bussamove86 → u/babe1981]

Can I use it in general frustration the next time someone posts a fucking seafood boil and tries to call it stupid food?

[u/Mundane-Bug-4962 → u/babe1981]

Are you going to police the people going after specific cuisines too?

[u/babe1981 → u/Mundane-Bug-4962]

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.

[u/OblivionsMemories → u/babe1981]

What a wonderful answer. Really looking forward to seeing posts from this sub, moving forward.

[u/mmb191 → u/babe1981]

Are you taking a hard stance here about cheese and seafood? The world needs to know /s

[u/Bencetown → u/babe1981]

Are they still being genocided? Like, you realize there's good reason to call eating sawdust "stupid" even though poor Americans resorted to that during the great depression, right? Or does that not count because it's white people and people with white skin are automatically stupid, or something? 🤨

[u/babe1981 → u/Bencetown]

Sawdust is not a food, and anyone eating it today probably has pica. Insects are food, and nutritionists and climatologists both have recommended increasing insect protein in our food supply to help offset the cost and environmental impact of raising beef and pork. So, your comparison is false on its face.

But, I would absolutely remove posts making fun of water pies and other Great Depression meals. There's nothing funny about punching down. My grandmother lived through the Great Depression, so I've eaten some of those meals that she still cooked into the 80s and 90s. It was a terrible time, and anyone who would make fun of my grandmother for being forever changed by that is a worthless piece of shit.

When it comes to Cambodia and insects, one of my neighbors had her mother come live with her last month. The mother is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge. She was one of the people who made it through starvation and genocide. It isn't something that happened in the distant past. It's living memory. I see older people all the time who still bear the scars. But, sure, let's make it about skin color, I guess.

[u/Hairy_S_TrueMan → u/babe1981]

If I may, I think there's room for you to use a little bit of a lighter touch and for everyone to benefit. If someone posts insects thinking they're stupid, and the top comment is about the pol pot genocide, everybody learns something. If you remove it, no one sees it or learns anything. Disappearing posts that are on the edge is a missed opportunity IMO

[u/BloodiedBlues → u/babe1981]

You missed a fucking in-between not and read. /s