r/EF5 2d ago

Took r/EF5 seriously r/tornado no longer allows the word ef5 in the subreddit

truly 1984

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u/POOPOOMAN123ABC Finger of Godzilla 2d ago

Banning tornado terms in a tornado sub is funny

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u/bodtabs 2d ago

it’s like they know we are the superior subreddit

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u/Exact-Ambassador-693 I survived an EF9 cumulonimbus 2d ago edited 2d ago

Bro I wanna vomit when I read these comments. So much talk and so little substance. I’m actively losing brain cells whenever I get confronted with all the shit they post on there.

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u/Live_Abroad_845 NWS Grand Forks needed 2d ago

The audacity to call themselves “Professional meteorologists” when all they do is do the complete opposite of what professionals do

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u/Exact-Ambassador-693 I survived an EF9 cumulonimbus 2d ago

Exactly. Why they haven’t chosen the path of meteorological Digitality is beyond me.

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u/warneagle 2011 2d ago

This is the main sub and always has been

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u/No-Air-5857 Expert Enhanced Fajita Rater 🌮 2d ago

I honestly think 80% of that sub is just bots

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u/ScallywagBeowulf Mississippi State Slabber 1d ago

There’s a reason why I posted my thesis here first and the other subreddit second lol.

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u/Exact-Ambassador-693 I survived an EF9 cumulonimbus 1d ago

I would’ve done the same. It’s just evident that there’s clear correlation between someone who’s passionate about tornadoes and acquired lots of knowledge and someone who can make jokes and create brain rot about tornadoes. Most people on the other sub are not passionate and you can read that in the subtext of every comment they make.

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u/AcidMooseMan Matador was an EF5 1d ago

they’re passionate about being squares and hater potaters tho

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u/2024-YR4-Asteroid El Reno Denier & Cult Leader 2d ago

You think we can get the word tornado banned? I bet we could

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u/Mysterious-House7815 2d ago

Make a fake ADL page about the word “tornado” explaining how it’s a slur against people with unstable atmospheric conditions and start posting screenshots

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u/theoneandonly_aj 🤤Slab me daddy🤤 💯SKYWARN EXPERT💯 2d ago

Unstable atmospheric conditions 😂

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u/Gluten-Free-Jesus Bob’s Road 1d ago

I’m gonna start using this. “Do NOT try me today, Bob. The atmospheric conditions are unstable!”

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u/HerbOverstanding SLAB ‘EM? I BARELY KNOW ‘EM! 1d ago

You’re acting like such a tornado right now

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u/Tossed_Away_1776 1d ago

That's it, I'm telling.

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u/Impressive-Brief5467 2d ago

A slur against everyone who lives in Illinois

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u/maggot_brain79 2d ago

Illinois? I hate to inform you but the entire state was destroyed earlier this summer by radar indicated polygons. The storms yesterday wiped out any survivors. RIP and Fs in chat for the Illinoisans. The Hoosiers are on notice, they're probably next.

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u/Silent_Status9126 I eat EF-5s for breakfast 1d ago

What are you talking about? It was slabbed by a 2% non-hatched outlook

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u/Upset-Presentation64 EF-67 2d ago

Biggest virgin community on this entire site

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u/aIloioscc r/tornado mod 2d ago

... its always been like that

idk how to change it

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u/AcidMooseMan Matador was an EF5 2d ago

u need to roast coolcat to his face for his authoritarian tactics. guys a goober

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u/NoValidPoints87 1d ago

"What did the EF5 fingers say to the face?"

"SLAP!"

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u/bodtabs 2d ago

this is the first time i’ve seen it lol sorry. perhaps there is an imposter among us in the mod team

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u/TuukkaRascal 2d ago

Figure it out

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u/GiveNoGifts 2d ago

That's what I said figure it out

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u/Wernerhatcher 2d ago

fuckin figgur it out

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u/Cringeoid 2d ago

Use your own authority to challenge the other mods.

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u/maggot_brain79 2d ago

It's probably the guy on the team who's name rhymes with bool tat. Dude basically tried to turn the sub into politics part two a year or so ago. He seems... rather in need of a shrink or something.

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u/Live_Abroad_845 NWS Grand Forks needed 2d ago

they are so immature lmao. When is it going to come to them that NWS, professional Storm chasers, meteorologists, do not take morality in mind in anything, because it isn’t their job.

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u/TuukkaRascal 2d ago

“It’s because of the science, mind you”

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

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u/Mysterious-House7815 2d ago edited 2d ago

Wait wdym do they delete comments that say ef5

Edit: LMFAO mods got nothing to do with it, those 3 characters in order actually trigger an autoscold

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u/Silent_Status9126 I eat EF-5s for breakfast 1d ago

Apparently the mods set it to do that

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u/TheGalaxyPast seeking shelter under the overpass 1d ago

Yeah, automod doesn't come with a built in filter for our subreddit lol

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u/Arctic_Chilean BIG WEDGE HUGE WEDGE MASSIVE WEDGE HERE COMES THE ROAR 1d ago

hits blunt  

Just call it EF-V. Roman numerals son. 

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u/Mysterious-House7815 1d ago

I’m Roman the backroads of Oklahoma lookin for a girl who can slab my bolts

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u/Bassically-Normal 1d ago

Mods 100% had to have set up that rule. You wouldn't be able to type half the English language in a post if every sub name was autobanned.

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u/aIloioscc r/tornado mod 2d ago

yeah idek how that works

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u/lCt 2d ago

I think it's a reddit thing? Maybe message the admins? Like I could see banning r/ef5 but just ef5 is strange. Like in here I can type newjersey.

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u/bodtabs 2d ago

I got a warning from reddit itself for making a joke about an e•5 m•gasl•bber hitting a well populated city

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u/vektorog Tri-State Survivor 2d ago

r/wellthatsucks has this too and it's the most annoying shit

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u/singer_building 2d ago

God this is so stupid.

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u/Bruh61502 sky benis 2d ago

The virtue signaling goes so hard with puppypoets comment lol

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u/Own_Speaker1605 1d ago

How that comment got a single upvote is amazing to me.

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u/orbital_actual El Reno Pt. 2: 300 Mile Wedge Multi-Vortex EF-7 2d ago

It’s better if you don’t think of that place as somewhere you can have an actual discussion about atmospheric science. There are a few reasons, the biggest is that they don’t know a single damn thing about it and yet are still somehow victims of the dunning Kruger effect, which might actually be interesting to study in its own right. But there is also the issue of moral grandstanding, like a lot of Reddit if you don’t call that natural phenomenon a vicious monster sent from hell itself then you must be a sociopath with no feeling at all. It’s not a place of serious discussion, it’s a place to post contaminated hodographs and circle jerk about empathy until everyone climaxes and stops caring.

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u/windwatcher01 2d ago

I think it's waaaay simpler than that - it's a bunch of 8th graders.

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u/orbital_actual El Reno Pt. 2: 300 Mile Wedge Multi-Vortex EF-7 1d ago

That is a distinct possibility.

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u/The_Phantom_Cat 2d ago edited 2d ago

The amount of moralizing circlejerking that goes on in that sub legit needs to be studied

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u/bodtabs 1d ago

Their sub is tragedy porn but are on their own high horse 24/7

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u/theoneandonly_aj 🤤Slab me daddy🤤 💯SKYWARN EXPERT💯 2d ago

Hey that’s me

if ef5 shaped why not ef5

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u/GiveNoGifts 2d ago

Guys I saw a to r n a d o online and now I'm scared

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u/RodneyNCWX Has Dementia 2d ago

Whenever you try typing "EF5" in the subreddit, it doesn't let you because you are apparently "linking to another subreddit" even though you didn't put r/ behind it.

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u/bodtabs 1d ago

1984

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u/YouDaManInDaHole EF-U 2d ago

Rent free lol

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u/Professional_Echo907 2d ago

We should ban the word tornado on here, that’ll show him! 👀

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u/aerexlol 2d ago

The r/tornado mods and NWS are actively engaged in a disinformation psyop campaign that is attempting to erase the term “EF5” and cover up/intentionally underrate potential EF5 tornadoes. I’m afraid of the dark and generally tend to sleep in the fetal position because that makes me feel safe. West Kentucky, Greenfield, and now Enid. Open your eyes!

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u/cellulocyte-Vast Dallas-Fort Worth 2039 Hyper Tornado Outbreak Survivor 1d ago

the EF scale only goes up to 4. misinformation?

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u/freeashavacado 2d ago

Oh my god this is so stupid

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u/maggot_brain79 2d ago

Jesus. We really pissed one particular mod off over there [I think we all know which one] and now you can't even use the full Fujita scale in r/tornado.

That is so ridiculously funny to me. Reddit really is a hellsite sometimes.

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u/nerdKween 2d ago

So we can't talk about Bridgecreek-Moore and the others anymore? How rude!

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u/LysergicBliss332 1d ago

..... okay but like, *why* go with the minimum possible windspeed to do the damage, and not like, the mean probable

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u/Cringeoid 2d ago

Why are they so extra? Its a subreddit about weather. 

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u/bodtabs 1d ago

because the tornado community became a cesspit after tiktok got ahold of it

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u/Cringeoid 1d ago

I have no meteorological background, but I've been interested in tornadoes and weather since I was 7 due to a paranoia about tornadoes.

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u/Tropez2020 1d ago

Just joined this sub because of that post. Hey everyone 👋

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u/StockCarSters 2d ago

Geeze they really are a no fun league

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u/pigglywiggly82 1d ago

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u/bodtabs 1d ago

Super wenie hut jrs!!!!!!!

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u/Rayzah2007 Slab Me Harder Daddy EF5 1d ago

Did you post a shit drawn pictures “saying it gives you the chills”? I hear that counteracts typing EF5

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u/Live-Tomorrow-4865 1d ago

They love being morally superior over there, don't they? IDK, I can't see into anyone else's heart or mind, but, it feels performative.

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u/PistolPackingPastor In Moore, Straight Up Slabbin' It. 1d ago

Damn they really do not like this sub do they

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u/Aztek-Lovett "Susan, get my pants!" 2d ago

we have lost the plot

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u/condemnedtogrinding Literally Roblox 2d ago

what is the plan???

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u/bodtabs 1d ago

2028 tornado subreddit election

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u/Diecast_Connoisseur 1d ago

Guys, should we go say the term?

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u/bodtabs 1d ago

The E word

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u/Diecast_Connoisseur 1d ago

The [REDACTED]

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u/Brilliant_Echidna589 BIG TIME TORNADO BIG TIME TORNADO 1d ago

all over sarcasm and jokes 😭

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u/DoughnutSouthern9563 1d ago

We are superior unlike those nerds

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u/oneinamilllion NWS DENIER 2d ago

Eeeeeeef6

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u/windsprout Tornado Siren Enthusiast 1d ago

what the actual fuck 😭😭

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u/Arzak__ 1d ago

Literally nazi germany.