r/nevertellmetheodds Dec 08 '17

[META] List of Banned Posts on this sub

/r/nevertellmetheodds/wiki/common_posts
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u/T3chn0_ Dec 21 '17

Can someone be kind enough to type this because the link broke on mobile

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '17

This list may be modified in the future

1: Receipts or anything related to monetary balances.

Gas prices, change amounts, receipt balances, money left in bank account, etc. 2: Four Leaf clovers (or greater)

We've seen multiple posts of 4, 5, 6, and 7 leaf clovers. They are not as rare as they sound, and many people even have collections of them. 3: Fortune Cookie fortunes

This includes posts such as: Identical fortunes, multiple fortunes in one cookie, and other related posts. These also fall under Rule 4 4: Car mileage and other related gauges

At some point, it's just more impressive that some cars even make it to 123,456 miles, but not odds defying.

This also includes licence plates which have consecutive numbers. Despite this seemingly being rare, we get several of these posts a month.

5: Hitting a dart with another dart

It's relatively easy with good aim and practice. Also, these posts are almost always pictures, which would fall under Rule 4. 6: Eggs with multiple yolks

These also fall under Rule 4.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '18

What about a gif of a five leaf clover laying an egg with 2 yokes?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '18

This yoke was funnier the first time I heard it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

Fuck got me

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u/FieryBlake Apr 23 '18

This yolk was funnier the first time I laid it.

FTFY

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u/gschwindle Jan 29 '18

Damn what about multiple eggs with multiple yokes b2b2b

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u/liisathorir Feb 28 '18

I work as a pastry cook, I once cracked 32 double yolks and 2 triple yolks. It not uncommon.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '18

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u/liisathorir Mar 27 '18

That specific encounter probably would have been suitable for NTMTO, but the point I was trying to make is double yolks are common. Triple yolks are not so common but still probably not sub worthy.

I'm assuming they made this a rule so that when you go on this sub it's not just all eggs.

But in pleased you think my crazy yolk story could have been worth breaking the rules. (Tried to shove an egg pun in there and failed)

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u/[deleted] May 09 '18

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u/[deleted] May 09 '18

Thanks! :)

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u/togawe Dec 09 '17

Why is Juxtaposition rule 10 and not on the banned post list?

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u/conalfisher Dec 09 '17

Because it's such a common occurrence that it's better for it to be a rule. Same reason rule 5 is there. Also, Rule 10 predates the banned posts list.

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u/togawe Dec 09 '17

I'm not saying remove it from the rules, I'm saying also put it on the list

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u/conalfisher Dec 09 '17

I know, I just think it'd be a bit redundant, to have it on both lists. If you take the time to actually check the common posts before posting (which, lets face it, barely anybody will), you'll probably have read the rules on the sidebar as well.

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u/KinneKitsune Jan 04 '18

u/conalfisher, think we can add fused/mispackaged/mislabeled food to this? Some days it feels like half the submissions are "My wheaties got stuck together", "I got a green goldfish in my back of normal ones", or "My bag of strawberry candy got the label for a variety pack"

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u/conalfisher Jan 07 '18

I'll talk about it with the other mods, see what they think

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '18

You allow trickshots, which take practice and "good aim", but you won't allow dart throws?

What's your logic behind that?

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u/Shadeauxmarie Apr 09 '18

I suppose pictures of a dart throw would be staged.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '18

Trick shots too no?

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u/Momma-MissL Jan 06 '18

Eggs with multiple yolks?

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u/conalfisher Jan 07 '18

You'd be surprised at how common they are. Usually if you find one of them, there's going to be others in the box. Same reason why you find four leaf clovers near eachother, because they are genetically likely to produce clovers with four leaves or more.

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u/Shadeauxmarie Apr 09 '18

Or you live next to a nuke plant.

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u/sturdybutter Feb 20 '18

What’s the reasoning behind not allowing screenshots?

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u/ImpliedShrimpZ Mar 04 '18

Easily fakeable

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u/paingelfake Mar 14 '18

It’s kinda dumb that dart on dart throw posts are banned. I’d like to see the mods even attempt to do this even with years of practice.

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u/conalfisher Mar 14 '18

we get 3 or 4 of them daily on the sub. They're not that rare,

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u/thedahlelama Mar 14 '18

Thaw mostly sound like things that would fit better on the mildlyinteresting or oddlysatisfying subs

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u/HawkinsT Mar 18 '18

Is there a list of approved sources? I just tried to add this story, but it was auto-removed under rule 6.

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u/conalfisher Mar 18 '18

I don't believe there is actually, we'll get to doing that once the redesign is all said and done. The sources I know are allowed from memory are imgur, gfycat, the Reddit domains (i.reddit, v.reddit, etc.), vid.me, streamable, and flickr. Anything that isn't one of those (or one that I've forgotten) are automatically removed by Automod.

Also, sorry, but that event has already been posted on the sub, so it'd be removed regardless.

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u/orionthehunt Feb 22 '18

What about what i can't post i did a sudoku in 11 minutes 11 seconds and completed it at 11:11 but its a screenshot

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u/KinneKitsune Mar 14 '18

If you guys could get on that stephen hawking repost shit, that would be great. It's the only fucking thing on the sub right now. Nobody is bothering to check if it's already been posted, so they're all spamming the same fucking thing 500 times. Not going to individually report 500 reposts.

It really looks like the only things that get posted here are rule 1, rule 3, rule 4, rule 5, and rule 10. I think I've seen ONE sub-worthy post in the past month.

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u/PwnagPotato11 Mar 12 '18

Honestly it would be better to just let people post what interests them to this sub, as long as it pertains to the sub. You’re not saving puppies or stopping terrorists by sorting what types of posts you guys want on this sub.

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u/conalfisher Mar 12 '18

We try to get the best content we can on the sub. Several of the things in that list cake from people complaining about certain types of posts. These weren't just things we decided were bad and shouldn't be allowed in the sub. Plus, when you get 6 posts per day of people robin hooding an arrow, you begin to question how rare it actually is. That was the case for most of these things, and it's been quite well received by the community.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '18

Thats ths whole point of unvote and downvote no?

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u/conalfisher Jun 03 '18

If all of Reddit was decided by upvotes and downvotes, every sub would be terrible. You can downvote spam and crappy posts, but they're still there, and some stupid people will still upvote them, and you'll still see them.

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u/thinkadrian May 27 '18

Screenshots of similar posts in the same newsfeed should be banned, imho.

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u/conalfisher May 27 '18

They are. Rule 10.

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u/thinkadrian May 27 '18

True, I guess I answered my own statement as soon as I wrote it. I guess I was just annoyed with a few of them just this morning.