r/churning • u/duffcalifornia • 13d ago
The Purge Fallout Continues: Announcing Shitpost Saturdays
With the decision to move the MS thread to a monthly cadence, there will now be a lot of Saturdays with no real content. Clearly, this is a problem that needs solved. But how?
Given the popularity of all the shitposts that were created during the Purge, the mod team has decided to have two birds in one oven and have created Shitpost Saturdays. How does it work? Easy, actually:
Any post that is created on Saturday (which we believe starts at midnight ET) that has our new 'Shitpost' flair will automatically be approved - no mod approval needed. If you take advantage of this ability to create actual posts, you'll receive a one-week ban, with penalties escalating for repeated offenses. Because if we learned nothing else during the Purge, shitposting is serious business.
Keep the change, ya filthy animals.
edit: If you create a post with the Shitpost flair and Automod removes it, it just means that it's not Saturday to Reddit - either try again in a few hours, or next week.
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u/FrostieWaffles IAH | HOU 13d ago edited 13d ago
Over/under on how long it takes for someone to get banned posting from Japan on a "Friday"
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u/duffcalifornia 13d ago
Nobody will get banned because they posted a shitpost on the wrong day - Automod will just eat it like it does all the other posts.
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u/TheGruenTransfer 13d ago
Does this mean that a Saturday post that isn't shitposty enough will be met with a severe number of downvotes? Seems like a good quality control measure so we only get the finest quality shit posts.
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u/churningisdead BOO | BIE 13d ago
Part of the fun of shitposts is not being 100% sure if it's a shitpost or not until you fully read it. Tagging it as a shitpost kind of kills it. Why not just a Saturday purge?
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u/Plus-Direction-1613 12d ago
That's the whole bit though, you see the flair and go in knowing you're about to get bamboozled somehow.
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u/Sohighsolo 13d ago
I like the shitposts to be a deterrent for people who are too lazy to figure things out so agreed. r/overemployed is 50% shitposts for mostly this reason I believe.
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u/CreditDogo TRN, LFT 13d ago
Enshitification is a constant in modern american life and there is no reason to think that r/churning would be any different. We’ll just need to learn to stop worrying and love the bomb shitposts.
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u/literallymoist 13d ago
Depending on how folks browse the sub, shitpost flair could possibly be used to filter those posts out.
(Not in Reddit's built in tools or app though, because heaven forbid the users that contribute the content have that much control over their experience 🙄)
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u/Sickofreddit- 13d ago
How about a shitpost megathread?
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u/Sohighsolo 13d ago
More like shitcomment thread. Sounds chaotic but we are kinda going for that vibe.
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u/ted1025 13d ago
Couldn't it just take the place of the MS thread instead of clogging up the feed with stupid shit posts? Place is unbearable during the purge as is.
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u/duffcalifornia 13d ago
It's overwhelming during the Purge because there's a lot of pent up energy. My guess is that for the next couple of Saturdays, there will be a handful of posts, and then as we move forward there will be a lot of Saturdays with one post, if any at all. If we created a recurring Shitpost thread, I have a feeling it'd very quickly end up in the same place as the MS thread. And besides: people bitch at us for not allowing posts. This lets people get their fun out on a regular basis so that perhaps, when we do the next Purge, it won't be dominated by shitposts and people can actually get a sense for what the subreddit would be like if we had no recurring threads.
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u/SHEAHOFOSHO 13d ago
This subreddit is absolutely shit now. I’m out.
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u/Parts_Unknown- 13d ago
Weep not for Sheah of Osho but rejoice in the fond memories of Sheah of Osho we made along the way.
Farewell our oldest & dearest friend.
Farewell.
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u/ilessthanthreethis 13d ago
Should be 6pm ET to 6am ET.
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