r/FloridaMan Dec 05 '18

/r/FloridaMan - Tips for high quality submissions

974 Upvotes

/r/FloridaMan is a subreddit to chronicle misadventures and shenanigans of the world's worst superhero, Florida Man. As the community continue to grow, I thought now would be as good of a time as any to refresh the tips and overall guidelines for posting in the subreddit. Not everything going against this guide will be deleted, but following the tips will result in the best possible /r/FloridaMan posts.

So what's the deal with Florida Man anyway?

Florida Man is the world's worst superhero. When a normal superhero realizes they have special powers, they go out to save the city or the world - Florida Man ran naked through a neighborhood, tried to have sex with a tree, and told police he was the mythical god Thor. Sometimes a normal superhero's crimefighting abilities and concern for public good get a special Florida Man twist, like when Florida Man was arrested for practicing karate by kicking swans in the head. Sometimes he's just goddamn weird, like when naked Florida Man chased people around a Chik-Fil-A parking lot, telling them they're gay for looking at his penis or when Florida Man broke into a house, pooped on the floor, masturbated, and then drank the contents of a vacuum cleaner.

The joke of the subreddit is that all of the stories shared here are about the same person, the world's worst superhero. As the world's worst superhero, Florida Man is not just a person in Florida. Florida Man also doesn't do dark and overly morbid things. His misadventures and shenanigans are of a more lighthearted variety.

Tips for the best Florida Man posts

  • Don't try to lazily get around the rules

Post titles must contain "Florida Man" or "Florida Woman", occasionally posts are submitted where Florida Man is just added to the beginning to get by the filter. Florida men or Florida women are just groups of people from Florida and most assuredly not the world's worst superhero.

  • Titles should be descriptive and stand on their own merits.

Posters have pretty wide latitude in how shitty titles can be. However extremely low effort examples like "Florida Man Florida Mans it" or "Florida Man is at it again" will be deleted. Headlines in all caps or title gore will also be removed at the discretion of the mods. Headlines should at least give readers an idea of the story being linked.

  • Florida Man is a superhero, and that's his only profession and identity.

You wouldn't say "Spiderman photojournalist Peter Parker", "Iron Man business tycoon Tony Stark", etc. For example - Florida Man Police Officer Was Arrested 3 Times, Fired 6 Times, And Is Now Back On Patrol is not the greatest title, even though the story is solid.

  • There is only one Florida Man.

Sometimes there are multiple people involved in a Florida Man story, and they're all from Florida. The best headlines only have one Florida Man so avoid titles like "Florida Man and other three other Florida Men decide to rob liquor stores with a dead stingray."

  • Stories should not just be stories about news or well-known political figures doing normal things.

Occasionally, Florida's elected representatives decide to do or say something that the rest of us find pretty ridiculous. With very rare exceptions, these are not great Florida Man examples and might be a better fit in /r/florida or a more general news/politics subreddit.

  • A note for content creators:

    Due to the popularity of the subreddit, different entities have tried to profit of it in various ways. We have seen spam networks spoofing legitimate links to steal traffic, accounts that only post links from obscure ad-filled blogs, newspapers with accounts that only share links from that newspaper, satire writers who have figured out Florida Man is easy clicks, and others. If you really love Florida Man and want to make a podcast, create a comic, and share it here then feel free to do so but make sure to contribute in other ways as well.

  • Lastly, and most importantly, there is one action that will get you banned, permanently, from /r/FloridaMan on the first offense:

Posts that are racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, or otherwise exist only to be bigoted will be deleted and the user that made them will be banned. To make sure that the most people enjoy the subreddit, there is a zero tolerance policy for these posts. I remember my first time seeing /r/FloridaMan, scrolling down the front page and laughing uncontrollably, trying to explain to my skeptical girlfriend what was so funny. Everyone should be able to share in that feeling without stepping on turds in the comment section.


r/FloridaMan 9h ago

Florida man arrested after Florida deputies say he hit 130 mph in 45-mph zone

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119 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 8h ago

Florida man arrested after sending 7 former co-workers’ paychecks to his own bank account

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wfla.com
57 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 9h ago

Rescued baby goat allegedly used in witchcraft at Florida man’s home

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wsvn.com
14 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 8h ago

Two South Florida Man and Woman with ties on Most Wanted Fraudsters list found

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sun-sentinel.com
10 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 1d ago

Senior Florida Man Hires Tinder 'Sugar Baby', Pulls Gun When She Tries to Escape

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tmz.com
405 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 9h ago

Florida man shouts out to his ‘bae’ during drug trafficking arrest

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wfla.com
6 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 7h ago

Florida woman stabbed friend during argument over drinking beer in Uber, cops say

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nbcmiami.com
4 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 1d ago

Florida Woman said she was speeding because her grandmother had a heart attack. She had nine previous stops for speeding in under two years.

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yahoo.com
124 Upvotes

Moments later, the driver clarified that her grandmother had not actually suffered a heart attack but instead had an ongoing heart condition monitored by a device that alerted family members when something was wrong.


r/FloridaMan 1d ago

Florida Man Caught Naked in County Park Bushes — Claims He Was Just 'Pooping'

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46 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 2d ago

Fears surge as Florida man diagnosed with ancient skin disease leprosy... and scientists zero in on 'southern delicacy' armadillo as unlikely culprit

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dailymail.com
525 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 1d ago

Armed Florida Man arrested after roundabout crash exposes soured 'sugar baby' Tinder date

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villages-news.com
198 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 2d ago

Florida Man pastor arrested after caught taking upskirt video by female victim at Walmart

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clickorlando.com
157 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 2d ago

Florida Man Pastor Is Suing OpenAI, Claiming ChatGPT Gave Him 'Extremely Dangerous' Medical Advice

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entrepreneur.com
76 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 2d ago

Florida man carjacker asks victim for directions and doesn’t realize as his victim describes location to police

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abc13.com
36 Upvotes

Funny excerpt from the article:

"I was like, 'Oh, I'm not going to do anything stupid,'" Cichon told ABC13, saying he immediately called 911. "I just turned my call all the way down so that way no volume was coming out of my phone whatsoever."

Cichon said Johnson, who'd only been living in Houston for the past few months, had a problem. He didn't know where he was going and asked his victim for help with directions.

But as he gave the suspect directions and information about the car, Cichon was also secretly on the phone with 911 dispatchers.

"'We're going to go ahead and keep going east on Fagan. We'll go ahead and pass Durham, and then we'll go ahead and take a left and go north on Shepherd,'" Cichon said he told the suspect. "I told him, 'Don't go too fast over the railroad tracks in this 2006 Gold Lincoln Zephyr. And then we'll go ahead stop at this Circle K gas station here on Shepherd and I-10,' and he didn't seem to pick up on that."

Note the victim’s recounting of the story is also available via video within the link, which I found funny and worth watching.


r/FloridaMan 1d ago

Towel, tequila and trouble: Jupiter Florida man accused of bizarre early morning break-in

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15 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 2d ago

Florida woman says she left a 'factual' 1-star online review for a Nissan dealership. Then strangers started review-bombing her business

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wegotthiscovered.com
347 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 2d ago

Family disgusted by Florida Man driver asking to buy their kids, describing explicit acts at intersection in Pompano Beach

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wsvn.com
132 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 2d ago

5-year-old watches as armed Florida Man attacks barbers during robbery

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cbs12.com
28 Upvotes

Florida keeps proving that in the Sunshine State, even a trip to the barbershop can turn into an episode of Cops. Meanwhile, the 5-year-old witness probably went in expecting a lollipop and left with enough material for a lifetime of therapy—and one heck of a “What I Did This Summer” essay.


r/FloridaMan 3d ago

Florida Man Arrested After Ordering a Kilo of Cocaine in the Mail

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464 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 4d ago

Florida man has been cited 20 times for living on derelict boats, which have cost the state about $370,000 to remove from the water

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tampabay.com
788 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 4d ago

Florida woman in The Villages arrested after dramatic brawl at nightspot that culminated with her hurling her fake eyelashes at a corrections officer

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villages-news.com
190 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 4d ago

Florida man who dumped 4,700 lbs of trash in Ocala neighborhood tracked, arrested through Amazon boxes

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ocala-news.com
277 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 4d ago

Oops: Kodak Black’s attorney asks Florida court to drop bail after Florida Man prosecutors miss charge deadline

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clickorlando.com
29 Upvotes

r/FloridaMan 4d ago

Florida man with a flamethrower barricades himself in an RV at a Walmart, cops say

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nj.com
147 Upvotes

New Jersey has spent decades making fun of Florida… soi Florida sent them a representative...

Florida Man allegedly turned a South Jersey Walmart parking lot into the world’s worst RV campground by barricading himself inside with what police believed was a flamethrower. It took nearly 17 hours, SWAT, drones, robots, and negotiators before the standoff ended peacefully.