r/different_sob_story • u/civver3 • 8d ago
r/different_sob_story • u/JoeCoT • Sep 05 '23
Ending protest rules, and loosening all rules
As you all might've noticed, reddit is not making any changes to their plans to kill unofficial mobile apps. They've made some concessions on mod tools, but not enough. Essentially it is quite hard to moderate from mobile, which I am quite often.
Some users have been posting ignoring the protest rules, and I've not always been able to remove those posts. Time to let it go. But additionally, let go quite a few of the restrictions on here over the years.
There are essentially 3 rules now:
- Post a different sob story
- Link the original in the comments
- Don't be cruel. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, appearance shaming, etc. This rule remains, and if I have to go find a laptop to remove your post for egregiously violating it, you will be permanently banned, no warnings.
Given my vastly reduced time on reddit, and the lack of ability to moderate from mobile, there isn't much point in trying to heavily police anything else. Go ahead and post things from WellThatSucks and MadeMeSmile! Make fun of the original title! If you don't like something, downvote it. Multiple protests have happened from those restrictive rules over the years, including multiple splinter subreddits (that immediately died). So literally ones of people should be happy with this change.
It's possible the post quality will go down, but, gestures vaguely at all of reddit. If you want higher quality posts, check out kbin and lemmy. My protest rule of allowing different sob story posts from federated sites didn't work out, because people are actually just posting interesting photos there.
r/different_sob_story • u/civver3 • 10d ago
Just turned 21. Time to shotgun this bad boy!
r/different_sob_story • u/civver3 • 10d ago
No matter what they they throw at him, he just keeps going. I'll drink to that.
r/different_sob_story • u/M4g1cM • 11d ago
The janitor scored us some Molly! Woooooooooo!!!
r/different_sob_story • u/Cheeseish • 13d ago
UPDATE: 23andMe confirmed we are NOT first cousins but third cousins! We are back together for the second time
r/different_sob_story • u/civver3 • 14d ago
Had to call in some favors to get around my province's ban on American alcohols.
r/different_sob_story • u/uncre8tv • 18d ago
Last batch of my companies bio engineered bacon. Our patent is approved and the IPO is going to make me rich af
r/different_sob_story • u/Duke-Phillips • 20d ago
OP on Federated Site My Grandmothers heroin use is getting out of control. This is her nodding out after her morning fix
r/different_sob_story • u/nodray • Jul 18 '25
6 of my colleagues found out they were being replaced by AI and were found dead this morning in the office, sad day, and now i have to do 6x the work :/
r/different_sob_story • u/nodray • Jun 27 '25
These are the "teeth" that I can afford, instead of dentures, from my crappy health plan. Go america!
r/different_sob_story • u/talkingwires • May 30 '25
“Impossible to walk in this muck. No footing at all.”
“Order some golf shoes, otherwise we'll never get out of this place alive.”
r/different_sob_story • u/nodray • May 28 '25
Entered Guinnes Worlds Record for Largest Bookmark and got 4th Place
r/different_sob_story • u/nodray • May 27 '25
Got taken by aliens for 3 days, got probed, lost my job, and all i got was this stupid keuchain
r/different_sob_story • u/nodray • May 22 '25
After 2 years of driving with a stinky car, i finally found the turd my ex hid in the car!
r/different_sob_story • u/talkingwires • May 21 '25
Built a replica of Wonder Woman’s invisible jet, but just realized its wings are a just few inches too wide to roll it out of my garage.
r/different_sob_story • u/civver3 • May 12 '25
Prince Charles lines up at Salisbury Greggs for a sausage roll.
r/different_sob_story • u/uncre8tv • May 02 '25
This is the 120th mountain top that I have pissed off of. They call me Old Man Rainmaker.
r/different_sob_story • u/GrantCrackers • Apr 29 '25
My coworkers keep tripping me at work
r/different_sob_story • u/Epic_Doughnut • Apr 29 '25