r/DownvotedToOblivion Jan 01 '22

Mod Post Best of r/DownvotedToOblivion 2021

102 Upvotes

With 2021 drawing to a close, it's time to look back at some of the best content of the past year! Thanks to Reddit admins, we have some rewards (one month worth of Reddit Premium per winner) to hand out to the people who have created the best content of 2021. Read the details and nominate them below!

Rules

  • Reply to this thread with a submission you want to nominate.
  • Vote for your favorite submission by upvoting it.
  • All submissions must have been made during 2021.
  • You are allowed to nominate your submissions.
  • The winner(s) will be decided by upvotes after an undetermined amount of time.

Good luck, and happy new year!

r/DownvotedToOblivion Oct 11 '20

Mod Post We now have a Discord!

112 Upvotes

Hi everyone, we now have a Discord for all the members of the subreddit to join the link is here feel free to join and ensure to read the rules!

r/DownvotedToOblivion Jan 12 '23

Mod Post Revised Rules and Flair Updates for r/DownvotedToOblivion

25 Upvotes

Attention all members of r/DownvotedToOblivion!

We have made significant revisions to our subreddit rules and strongly encourage all members to read through them before participating in the community. Additionally, we have migrated all custom user flairs to a new user flair called "Custom Flair", with the exception of those who have chosen a different user flair class. We have also added a new personal upvote record user flair, allowing you to highlight the most upvotes you've ever received, in addition to the existing personal downvote record user flair. To enhance readability, post colors in light mode have been darkened from grey to a darker grey, and post flairs have been given color, but will only apply to new submissions made after this announcement.

Thank you for your continued participation in r/DownvotedToOblivion.

r/DownvotedToOblivion Nov 12 '20

Mod Post ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SUBREDDIT UPDATE - Usernames of any kind & any person must be hidden from now on

27 Upvotes

Hi everyone!

In an effort to prevent Redditors from conducting brigades from this subreddit to others, as well as to abide by Reddit ToS/Content Policy consistently, we have decided to enforce such a rule that you will require to blur out all kinds of usernames, which includes yours, in your posts as of now.

Just a friendly reminder here: You may not link anyone in the community to the downvoted post. Any context necessary needs to be provided by other means such as in the title, with an auxiliary image in addition to the original, or in the comment section.

Thanks for your understanding!

r/DownvotedToOblivion Dec 09 '20

Mod Post Thank you for 50,000 members!

7 Upvotes

Thank you for the journey!

As a celebration, we'll be holding a Q&A that you can partake in!

Q&A Form

We will answer all questions in 14 days.

r/DownvotedToOblivion May 30 '21

Mod Post Announcement | Regarding Rules

8 Upvotes

Hello,

We've noticed that we're removing over 70% of posts because they violate our rules.

TL;DR: Read the rules! Censor usernames! No links!

Please remember that you must censor all usernames, even yours when making a submission, there have also been several times where the marker used for censoring was partially transparent where you could see the username even after censoring as well.

Asking for the link to the downvoted user's comment or the post the comment is embedded in is not allowed, it would be against Rule 8 and would technically breach Rule 2.

Most people have wanted to know why we don't allow links, and that is because in the past we have had people going to the downvoted user, and harassing them, going as far as to DM them and give them death threats, which has urged some of the downvoted users to personally modmail us about it.

This is intolerable, therefore, that is why links are banned.

Also, before making a submission, please do a quick check to ensure somebody else hasn't already posted that comment yet, it'll save both us and you time beforehand so that you don't go through the trouble of editing out the usernames just for the submission to be removed.

And please, don't ask for upvotes or downvotes, even if it's a joke or relates to the submission.

If anyone has any questions, we will answer them.

r/DownvotedToOblivion Jan 18 '21

Mod Post Q&A - Responses

22 Upvotes

Sorry for the highly delayed post! Here are the Q&A answers that was hosted when the sub hit 50,000 members!

What is the most downvoted comment in the history of Reddit?

u/Nintendo_Pro_03

Question goes to Entire Mod Team

Mod Team: Right here.

How'd you start this sub?

u/MlgAryx

Question goes to Entire Mod Team

hwhouston517: It started off as two guys who I could only assume are friends modding and growing the sub. Then both of them must’ve quit Reddit so I redditrequested it since it would’ve been restricted soon anyways by the admins.

What was the most wholesome moment you’ve seen since modding this sub?

u/dwDallas751

Question goes to Entire Mod Team

XGMCLOLCrazE: We don't really know actually, there hasn't been really any deemed wholesome moments, perhaps if the sub was old enough, the first submission of the EA comment with -667K downvotes.

What's your favourite part of nodding the sub?

u/eZARlolcmgx

Question goes to XGMCLOLCrazE

XGMCLOLCrazE: I enjoy the community, I think my favorite part is participating in the sub and just doing basic mod duties such as dealing with reports and keeping mean people away from the subreddit to make the environment peaceful.

Why do you keep on banning people?

u/La_erizo

Question goes to Entire Mod Team

Mod Team: We aim to really ban people who violate serious rules, like harassment, hate speech, offensive content, etc..