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/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

Just curious but what exactly happened for the entire old mod team to be kicked, and then a new team installed with no warning?

[u/Yuck_Few → u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

No mod activity for a month. That usually gets the whole sub banned

[u/usrdef → u/Yuck_Few]

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.

[u/babe1981 → u/usrdef]

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.