We are looking at this rule,
Current rule
"Posts which are deemed substandard or repetitive may be removed to maintain subreddit quality.
Text posts, blog link posts, or newspaper reader opinion articles containing items designed to provoke ire — such as soapboxing, contentious questions, hot takes, shitposts, blatant and known misinformation or PSAs — are explicitly considered low-effort"
We have noticed the criac seriously draining from the sub over the last year or so and maybe we have been too quick to remove for low effort content.
We are throwing this one out to ye.
- What do you think should be deemed low effort.
- What are we currently removing as low effort incorrectly.
- How can we bring a bit of craic back to the sub?
My Irish Rail / Bus éireann / Dublin Bus /Luas booking has a problem and I didn't bother to contact their customer service before writing a reddit post.
Any public transport ones. "Does anybody else think that Dublin Bus is bad?"
We try to kick those to r/askireland but unfortunately some will always slip through the filters.
The constant linking of pay walled articles (often multiple from the same people,) with zero accompanying text are among the lowest effort content on here. It more often than not results in people basically just commenting on the headline, which is not exactly fostering great conversation.
No hot takes, no shit posts, no soapboxing, and you're really wondering where the craic went?
The mods need to look at this. Its clear to me that some 'posters' of paywalled articles may actually also be its author or else connected to the newspaper they work for and they are using r/ireland to try to drive subs to their publication. What it results in is boring inane rubbish being posted to the sub that is not organic.
Start by doing a review of Sunday Business Post articles, there was definitely a poster on here and all they did was post boring articles from that publication.
Certain posters skirt that with meaningless comments like “Great to see” tacked on to their posts. Reddit is a discussion site, not a Twitter feed, but some people clearly are posting just to farm upvotes.
Yeah, it's a tricky problem to solve. Over on r/music, they have a word count requirement that was intended to stop that. But then posters have started using chatgpt to make their selfposts the correct length.
Which is so, so, so much worse than even a meaningless "great to see"...
Why allow any paywalled articles at all?
The story behind why paywalled content or ways to bypass is not allowed is because sharing full articles or bypassing paywalls breaches Reddit copyright policies. Reddit has received formal complaints from Irish media outlets in the past and allowing this content puts the entire subreddit at risk of action or shutdown. While we understand the frustration around paywalls and we do appreciate it, we cannot permit copyright violations in order to protect the community. The situation is out of our control, we’re not the only Irish subreddit affected by this crackdown.
TLDR: We’re genuinely not implementing this rule to be awkward, we have to do what Reddit Admins tell us to do.
A quick google helps get around them and majority of those who post them here do so to open a discussion. If anyone has an alternative suggestion for ways we could work around it, we are open to hearing it.
But why not ban paywalled articles? They provide zero value.
Because not everyone gets walled by an article in the same way.
Sometimes it's a soft wall — like X number of free articles per period — sometimes it just doesn't load, sometimes the article starts free and goes walled after submission, and some people have subscriptions so don't even know that an article is premium.
Banning the domains also isn't an option for most when there is a mix of free and walled from the same site.
Plus you can usually get around the paywall yourself, often simply by opening in incognito and if not that, there are other options which you can Google. The issue is posting it ready-bypassed on Reddit.
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All those repeated Irish Times crap pieces that wickerman fella keeps reposting. Like, we don't need it. I see many agree.
Anyone asking for "hidden gems" or "underrated" things. The answer will include Howth. Its searchable at this point.
I made a post here earlier but it looks like it got shadow-deleted.. do ye want feedback or not?
Approved now
Why did it need to be approved?
It got caught in one of Reddits filters, it happens sometimes
Yeah I was just wondering if you know exactly why, what the trigger word or phrase was? I hate these shadow-deletes
There can be a number of phrases within posts. We don’t disclose them, as bad faith actors would simply use that information to find ways around the filters. We understand and appreciate that this can be frustrating for genuine users like yourself but on a daily basis we deal with a high volume of posts that breach hate speech rules that should never appear on Reddit, let alone on this subreddit, as they are deeply offensive. This is why filters are necessary, not as a “gotcha”, but to ensure we are protecting vulnerable users from outright vitriol. Every subreddit uses some level of filtering to maintain safety and protection.
I really think you could look at the rule that pushes questions to /r/askireland.
I felt this was a misstep at the time - it was well intentioned to reduce clutter, but many, indeed most, of the more lighthearted posts and conversations in the sub were in those threads (whether intended by the OP or not, lol).
Sure maybe they could be repetitive at times, but they made the place feel more like a pub than the more parish hall meeting feel we seem to have now.
Yes I've had that a number of times and it's annoying. Just because something has a question mark in the title doesn't mean it should be automatically removed. Make a suggestion, sure, but don't automatically delete it before a mod has even seen it
It's something that was put into the automod when Ask was first created that is still running today. Also it was never based on a question mark, it's a loooong list of keywords and phrases that was put together to try and catch the most obvious stuff to move over.
We should probably look into reducing that from an auto-remove down to a filter.
Is there any way you could make it a suggestion rather than an auto-remove? For example: "This looks like a question, would r/askireland be more appropriate?"
Several times I've spent a while writing out a post only for it to be auto-removed. I then have to edit it to avoid triggering the auto-mod.
The audiences of r/Ireland and r/askireland are very different, so I'm usually writing the post with certain people in mind
We could.
It's just going to take a while.
Reddit automations don't seem to allow pasting a large CSV list of terms into the keywords and having them all convert into individual entries.
On the other hand r/askireland is flying. We will see discuss and come back to you.
I know a fair few of you guys mod both subs, so may take a different view, but in my view, a sub's rules shouldn't worry about what's best for another sub.
If it's felt by the mods & community that /r/ireland is better without random question posts, so be it. But I would argue that the reason for blocking them here shouldn't really be that it's better for /r/askireland.
Absolutely.
If people cared about the other subreddit they'd join it.
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Given there's still a significant crossover in the userbase and the mod teams, and that both communities are still "twinned" like that; yes we will consider how well Ask is doing when it comes to this area of feedback.
You're kind of touching on the point though
If people wanted to join the other sub they would, they dont because it's essentially a duplicate that survives on the rule you put in place here.
It exists because it has to, not necessarily because any of us want it.
I understand you've a conflict of interest, but thats not really something anyone here should have to worry about. Our interest is in this sub.
Basically, your justification for not improving this sub is that it conflicts with another of your interests, but we don't care about your other interest
Just wanted to highlight that despite so many people moaning, I think you mods are doing a great job. People forget this is not paid work, ye are always sound and I think people forget that there's a person on the other account, so fair play to you all, and mst 2026 be full of laughter and luck (and less moaning!)
Lick arse
No they're not.
Alright, stay miserable, I see your 2026 is off to a flying start
Very happy actually, just calling a spade a spade. Here's your medal though for being so nice 🥇 😂
Yeah, I +1 that, Reddit has taken over my number 1 social media platform and that’s because of the tight but sound moderation. Issues are dealt with swiftly. I think me personally AI generated text should be considered low effort content but I don’t know if you guys have the tools to detect AI generated content. I’m gonna put my hands up and say I’m guilty of this myself but in 2026 I plan on using my original thoughts to make a statement. Unfortunately, being dyslexic I do sometimes struggle with proper punctuation and grammar.
It's mostly done on feeling. There are usually several obvious telltale signs of AI slop.
We also have to balance AI generated text especially as we could have people with genuine issues like a language barrier, which formatting a post via AI is an accessibility tool.
It's a better sub along with others. Just go there for a nice discussion, this place is dead and not nice.
We outgrew being a pub in like 2019 though.
Do you really want every second submission here to be someone asking about car insurance, baby names, broadband packages, wedding plans, etc.?
Most of those are pretty much a case of you either have an answer and can contribute, or you don't and thus the post is useless to you; and at the time there were an awful lot of them which is why they were spun off into their own community.
I understand that was the perspective, and I do sympathise with the argument on the face of it, but I think it was a bit of situation where we had to take the rough with the smooth.
I do see your point I was browsing r/askireland the other night and I noticed posts that would have turned into interesting discussions on here. Unfortunately those users went straight to r/askireland though.
If I see a question in the queue on here that I think could spark a discussion I do approve it. I’ll chat with the lads to see if it’s possible to reduce the r/askireland filter to allow for more questions/discussions. Cheers for the feedback and have a happy new year!
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"Give us feedback please"
Users proceed to give feedback
"No, not like that. We want feedback that we already agree with"
Mods proceed to delete many comments giving them the feedback they asked for
So I guess you are talking about the posts around a certain user ?
You know there is a person at the other end of this users screen, we removed what can only be seen as a pile on against this user.
lol @ "pile on"
Now you're just gaslighting
It's very telling that this troll user was once made a Mod one April Fool's Day as a "prank"
You're laughing at your sub members, not helping them
Troll member aside, why are you also just putting your fingers in your ears and going "lalalala lalala" to the feedback about Ask Ireland?
The comments were harassment and targeting another user, that breaks not only our subreddit rules but also Reddits own harassment policies and that’s why they were removed. What’s stopping users simply stating they’d like less entertainment posts? It’s very easy to make neural suggestions and still get your point across. There’s zero need to pile on a specific user. all we ask of users is to engage respectfully and take into consideration that there are human beings behind these accounts.
Considering it’s the festive period, why would bother wasting our spare time to ask for feedback but also to respond to users if we aren’t taking it seriously? We’re taking time out of our lives and using our days off from work to revitalise the subreddit and also bring the users along with us.
We haven’t dismissed the feedback about r/askireland, it was literally only suggested to us today. We’ve taken it on board, discussed it as a team and you will see a roll out of fresh rules and changes to subreddit in the coming weeks. These things take time and patience is needed please. We’ve already began working on things in the background but we’re also balancing our personal lives. We can’t wave a magic wand and fix everything overnight.
Need less pay-walled articles
Check the other pinned post. We are relaxing rules on new outlets to hopefully allow alternative sources be posted.
What about allowing archive[dot]something links.They're allowed on other subreddits.
The story behind why paywalled content or ways to bypass is not allowed is because sharing full articles or bypassing paywalls breaches Reddit copyright policies. Reddit has received formal complaints from Irish media outlets in the past and allowing this content puts the entire subreddit at risk of action or shutdown. While we understand the frustration around paywalls and we do appreciate it, we cannot permit copyright violations in order to protect the community. The situation is out of our control, we’re not the only Irish subreddit affected by this crackdown.
TLDR: We’re genuinely not implementing this rule to be awkward, we have to do what Reddit Admins tell us to do.
A quick google helps get around them and majority of those who post them here do so to open a discussion. If anyone has an alternative suggestion for ways we could work around it, we are open to hearing it.
But why is it banned on this sub Reddit but not others? Surely it's up to Reddit's own employees to enforce stuff like that
"we cannot permit copyright violations in order to protect the community." A link to a website that breaks copyright law is not breaking copyright law.
It’s banned on other Irish communities as well. It was an Irish media outlet that made the complaint to Reddit’s legal team. We are all volunteers and are subject to a moderator code of conduct, if admins tell us to do something we have to implement and enforce it. It’s not optional. The same way we’ve to shut down the subreddit when we get brigaded to protect the subreddit (usually overnight when everyone’s sleeping), the powers that be hold the control and all it’ll take is one report.
Fair enough. Thanks for answering my questions.
No problem at all! I’m a long time Reddit user and I had the same questions and frustration until I became a mod (on here and other subreddits) and understood how it all works. It’s great to be able to explain things to you guys.
And yet they enforced on us many years ago, and also on r/irishpolitics within the last year. Both times with a stern "you cannot do this and cannot allow this" warning.
Are those policies specific to r/Ireland?
Because they're managing just fine in r/northernireland. As a matter of fact its one of their rules that you have to post the whole article in the body of the post (rule 3)
r/irishpolitics was affected as well. Even the workarounds they tried afterwards had to be stopped. We don’t know why Reddit admins have acted against some subreddits and not others. What we do know is that our subreddit was specifically named in a complaint made to Reddit’s legal team by an Irish media outlet. We have to implement and enforce the rules as instructed by the Reddit Admins. It’s not an option to ignore their instructions unfortunately, the power that be hold the control on this.
If there were a viable workaround, we would use it but everything we’ve looked at so far would breach Reddit polices. If you have a suggestion please let us know? It’s frustrating for everyone, including us and we receive abuse over this rule on a daily basis. We enforce it because we have to, not because we want to.
Crosspost everything from r/northernireland so. Because they (and many other subs) seem to be entirely unbothered. There are a good several UK subs that routinely post "paywall free" links with paywalled articles.
Would it help at all to explain the reason in detail (as you've just done) in the sub rules? It might spare you at least one or two complaints a day. Admittedly I read a sub's rules once and usually never go back but the dedicated users might remind people if it's complained about in a reply.
Happy New Year btw!
That’s something I literally suggested to the lads just a few hours ago. No average user knows the reason behind this rule, I had no idea until I joined the team and always thought that they were on a power trip. It’s really important that everyone understands why we have these rules.
Happy New Year! I've been in your shoes many times in my job and making the info available helped reduce a few queries/complaints and also gave us something official sounding to point to when we did get queries.
What about mandating a few lines on why an article is being linked, without getting into copyright levels. Often the article title and non-paywalled part doesn't give enough info about the subject. Feels more like the articles are linked to get clicks and subscribers rather than for awareness and discussion.
People shouldn't have to have an opinion on something to be able to share it though?
Then just state why they're linking? Why is this paywalled link worthy of sharing to r/Ireland, especially if only the first paragraph is visible?
This is definitely an idea, the OP has to give their opinion basically?
I've had every article I've ever stated my opinion on removed. So I stopped posting them. Then again that was the previous mod team who also banned my account for reporting harassment so...
Stated your opinion in the comments or the title? In the title results in instant removal in most subs these days.
Something like that. Basically start the discussion. Can be "saw this article saying subjectxxx is bad, what do you think". Now I can google subjectxxx if i wasn't aware and know the side the article took. On the other hand, "interesting take on subjectxxx" doesn't help as I usually can't tell from the readable part what their take is, and don't know whether op has the same opinion or not. I'd have to google and get the paywall bypassed version of that article to even get the take.
For some articles it feels like they're posting just to get upvotes, every new article gets linked. I can get a news feed elsewhere, this is where I come for opinion.
Stop letting Irish times etc constantly post paywalled articles. I thought they had to add a flair to them which they do not. Every time for the last few months I come onto this sub, I see a story of interest, click it, paywalled article, close web browser, go back to instagram. Every time
That's the very definition of low effort.
Not everyone gets walled by the IT, though. Disabling JavaScript prevents it from kicking in.
Low effort, moaning about the size of chocolate bars compared to previous years. I know ye can’t stamp out all the moaning but even half of it would be an improvement
And that Temple Bar receipt. That should be an instant ban.
I also don't really care how much someone did or didn't pay for a chicken fillet roll
r/templebarjerk
People aren't moaning enoguh about greedflation actually.
Not until Cradbury cops on to themselves!!
Things to remove automatically:
Things to promote:
Absolutely this. How on earth is The Times/Sunday Times allowed an account and to post links to articles, that are then behind a paywall??? Wtf???
I presume the ST are paying Reddit to promote their wares through an official account. Other newspapers are posting their articles here every day but they are not paying Reddit
I don’t think they are paying, otherwise it would have a “promoted” tag, no? IIRC a mod told me they asked and the mods let them, which I thought was nuts but there you go. Mods can confirm/clarify.
By all means let them post with free access to said articles. Its morally wrong allowing them post their own paywalled articles for discussion threads.
Well, that's a Reddit prerogative, you'll need to talk to the admins about the whole concept of those official verified accounts.
At the very least they aid the submissions by choosing to offer a snippet of key information when they submit.
I'll second the comment about a comment needed from the OP especially if the link is paywalled.
And, seeing as the OP can't carry the comment, some way of attaching the comment to the OP as it just seems somewhat bizarre to see that opening comment at the arse end of the thread.
This would also remove the Times bot so two benefits there.
Tbh, it often seems those non commented links are just there to drive access to the site and advertising revenues.
Why should someone have to have an opinion on news to be able to share it? It's perfectly fine to want to share news that is interesting or impactful.
To stop low effort spam. Reddit is a forum, primarily. It's not like the IT or RTE are niche newspapers. If it's genuinely interesting or impactful, having an opinion on it should come easily.
Half the posts on this sub these days is just one big advertisment for paid subscriptions to newspapers. You get the headline for free.
The posters do not even write their thoughts or have an opinions on the articles themselves.
Very few of us will have a subscription to any of the papers, so most of the time it's just people reacting to a headline. It's often just generic responses based on the posters pet peeve, e.g. blaming FFG
And most of those are posted by 2 or 3 posters.
There's actually another active metathread on that exact topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1q0konq/rule_refresh_reputable_media/
Its a nothingburger about paywalled articles basically carry on as normal.
"if posting a paywalled article please look for another source that may not be paywalled."
Nobody is going to do that, its going to be the same spam of paywalled articles as normal.
Fair. On initial reading I thought the post I linked was more of a request for feedback on things like that bullet point, but it's clearly more a "this is happening" post.
Both of these are more of a "this is what we want to do, but we want to discuss it first before implementing".
And should people have to have an opinion to be allowed to share something? That feels annoyingly cumbersome and restrictive.
The point is they are not really sharing anything at all but a single line of text for the vast majority on r/ireland.
30% - 40% of these "shared" news articles can really only be read by a very very small percentage of r/ireland.
It is and always has been a direct violation of Rule 12. "The buying or selling of any goods or services is not permitted." Its advertising a paid for subscription service for a business, plain and simple.
Posting a news article is not advertising a business. To claim that it is, is being obtuse and rules lawyering.
You well know that rule is designed to curb individuals using Reddit as a marketplace.
It arguably is when it is the media company doing so directly, though. Posts should only be here because genuine users thought other genuine users would appreciate them.
That's the rule we have in /r/Cork to keep the usual suspects out from their daily spam of articles/who's riding who on Fair City.
If you're posting an article, you need to add your own context in the title as to why you're posting it, or why it matters. If you're just in resharing CorkBeo content, or Irish Times content to get karma - gtfo.
FWIW, we identified this as a major issue earlier in the year, with users spamming the subreddit with nothing but news articles and other content. As a result, we introduced tools that limit users to three posts per day to prevent that. We’ve had very positive results from this.
You guys don’t see it but we also frequently remove really low effort content like entertainment news, reviews or shite opinion pieces the aren’t gaining traction or have been reported for low effort by other subreddit users. We ask the OP to post better quality content next time. Despite what people believe we also have issued bans for repeated low effort posts, pushing agendas and trolling to multiple users.
Users. It was largely 1 user and you know that
No, it wasn’t. One of our moderators analysed the data and found that a relatively small number of users were dominating the subreddit by posting large volumes of content, mostly news. This kept the subreddit in a constant news cycle and made other types of posts hard to find. Any frequent subreddit user would know this and all it would take is for you to go back 6 months and have a look.
Our decision to revitalise the subreddit began over the summer and introducing posting limits was the first step towards restoring a more varied feed. It was also implemented to help reduce brigading, which was also a significant issue at the time.
Just as a reminder, moderators have access to far more data than the average user and that information informs these decisions.
I wonder what user was the primary source of those news articles.
The rules of the sub encourage that kind of mindless posting since it is forbidden for some bizarre reason to give your opinion on the article in the post itself.
It really on the other hand be a requirement to give a comment. What is low effort would be obvious when these news spammers wouldn't be able to provide a commentary on every rte/it/Indo link they post.
As per my last comment, scroll back and you will see it was most certainly not one user. There were roughly 12 users that dominated the subreddit.
It’s not forbidden to give your opinion, you just post it in the comment section like the majority of other users do. The direct linking rule is in place to prevent bias and editorialisation.
I do take your feedback on board that the OP should be required to make a comment if they’re posting as it’s another good method to prevent spamming. I’ll bring it back to the team. Cheers.
This sub is not art. There is no point it pretending it is some high brow, intellectual symposium.
If you took out hot takes, personal posting, soap boxing what the fuck is left.
If someone is putting in thesis level efforts posting here they'd need their heads examined. Nobody would care.
While there may be bitching about tending topics, like photos of Christmas dinners, clearly that's what people here wanted. All the posts had hundreds of upvotes. And what would we have had in their place? Photos of dogs? Kneecap posts? It certainly wouldn't have been an examination of Ulysses.
This sub started to take a nosedive around the of The County Deathray. Since then the mods went way stricter on posts that were allowed and the craic started to quickly dwindle. If r/casualireland got some more people it would replace this sub.
Posts that merely link a newspaper article that's locked behind a subscription or paywall. That's not an acceptable way to start a discussion
I just presumed that was just a newspaper employee posting them all tbh.
I'll get downvoted for this, but posts with pictures of dogs saying "Fido says Happy New Year" or something similar.
I get that people love their dogs, but to anyone else it's just a picture of a random dog
Casual is the place for pets and spice bags
Does this include excluding articles about Vogue Williams? Please god say this is within the no craic criteria
I suggest No Williams Wednesdays. And Tuesdays. And weekends.
No willies at all?
Are you referring to Gladiators: Celebrity Special winner, Vogue Williams?
I only know her as Brian McFadden's ex motzer 😅
I'm very surprised that got less hubbub here than I expected.
Haha there is that one guy who loves her, I kinda like seeing him post about her. I reckon if we didn't allow his posts he would be outside her house.
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I was a very long time subreddit user before I became a mod, I remember those posts and miss them. Remember the snickers post or the fella who always had a mad story especially around Christmas.. ham at the back of the Christmas tree? We need more of those style posts again.
In recent times, the subreddit has become very moderated with mainly news articles appearing in the feed. It’s boring.. We’ve been working on improving that. We can’t force posts that are a bit of craic but we hope by working with the community on loosening the “low effort” rules again, we will see more of them. So any suggestions are welcome!
Happy new year!
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The Vogue Williams articles can get f*cked though. I only know about her because of this sub and besides, everytime there's a post about her it gets no traction aside from some comments mocking her.
Ban posts about the price of something utterly routine and obvious. We know cream eggs are tiny and expensive.
The cost of living flare should be serious not frivolous.
I'm in favour of letting more stuff through, the whole point of Reddit is that the userbase decides through upvoting what they want to see, not what mods decide you see (worldnews should be disbanded for this reason). The mods should be there to stop the likes of brigading, spam or blatantly illegal content
worldnews is an utter cesspit.
There shouldn't be a 'low effort' rule - it's entirely subjective and opens the door for any mod to remove content they just don't like; or for it to at least appear that way (which is just as bad). Aside from that, that's what downvoting is for. Moderation should be about removing illegitimate or duplicate content, not content that doesn't meet some arbitrary bar of 'effort' or quality.
Finally, the rule was never applied consistently or transparently, so there is no reason to expect any amended version of the same to be applied differently.
I say this respectfully, and with the acknowledgement that the sub is generally modded very well. but it's not for mods to be determining effort - or for 'brining a bit of craic back to the sub'. The idea that you think that is the job of mods is itself the problem. You've driven the craic out by over moderating and you won't bring it back by doing the same. If the post is not malicious in some way, leave it alone. Tourists are gone, questions are gone, memes are gone... 'low effort' is the final kick in the balls. No wonder the craic is gone too.
I hate to use this word but its very notiony.
10 years ago the top post on this sub was a fella with his mickey out playing the tin whistle. We're a silly internet forum not the New York Review of Books.
This is exactly it. Drop the rule entirely, it's way too subjective and each mod will interpret it differently no matter how hard they try to standardize it.
Such subjectivity has already essentially killed the politics sub, and they'll break this sub too if the mods decide to double down rather than alleviate such ridiculous nannyisms.
THIS!
We really don't need a discussion on the Irish language or the price of X food item every other day.
Other obvious karma farming posts like my dog says hello, url links to tabloid articles and things like that are also low effort.
What you got against the woofers?
Scrap the rule entirely, it's ridiculous.
Sub feels very corporate with the amount of paywallled articles these days. Very little organic original content anymore.
Legacy media opinion piece links.
RTE/Irish Times/Indo all have websites we can go to. At this point r/ireland is just a rolling update of each of their front pages.
If someone has a valid take on some news story, post away, but if it's just clickback linking of every single new article.. no.
Strong agree. When people share links with no body text whatsoever it's fair to assume they're just trying to drive traffic to the news sites. Why else would someone think a link is worth posting while having literally zero takes on it.
1 or 2 word titles or shit picture followed by "Discuss"
be consistent in your application of this rule. you delete everything i post but allow similar posts to stay up.
and photos of price tags are low effort moans
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It's the random moaning for me. It's like constant posts moaning about the most pointless stuff. There's just too much of it, but a small few accounts here just eat it up. It's pure misery.
The other is the begrudgery posts. It's always about a neighbor or the mother in law, or something, who does nothing wrong but maybe they bought a new car or buys the "nice" version of a product at the supermarket, so hundreds of strangers have to talk about them having "notions". I find it very odd.
Posts about immigration which are obviously karma farming
a rules post...that worked well for boards.ie
Unlike a certain cohort of admins on that site, some of us are receptive to feedback.
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As I have stated elsewhere, under no circumstances will there be a !voteban taken on any particular user.
Besides, I'm the one who is generally removing half of the bad submissions made by a certain cohort in this community. And yet other feedback is saying we're classifying too much as low effort and need to stop removing things? Make yer god-damn minds up!
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/s/6dh94ow8IV
This shite
And yet that thing is now standing at almost 100 upvotes and over 80 comments?
Seriously? Ye want us to tell ye what we want to change around here?
And ye want us to believe that ye're not using the responses to build a list of people to nuke?
Nice try, lads. Ye can leave the shirts in for washing later.
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No.
Why would we shut down a community that has grown to be pretty much at least 50% of the visitors and active users as here?
Ban anyone who's a top 1% poster for a day or two, just for the craic and chaos.
Jk some of them are alright
Imagine........
I would love to see a megathread made for people complaining about taxis. I actually have seen a couple of comments in those that seemed to be by bots (as they accused the OP of being a mean taxi driver but the OP was actually complaining about taxis). To me this does suggest Uber could be smearing taxi drivers and a megathread could level the playing field there
Some poster over on carsireland with an interesting video from the nurburgring with an An Post van being told it's low effort.
It's beyond ridiculous now and yet I have to keep Wickerman on ignore.
The original submission and title tried to pass it off as something that actually happened — and not disclosing that it was done in Gran Turismo 7:
https://preview.redd.it/ispmhdk87cbg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=b56469f79333a4308c2d8e2b47905f4e8ffa10f8
A user-created skin on a vehicle in a racing game isn't exactly top-tier content.
Fair enough. Apologies for that.
The Irish flag not being the sub reddits image tells you all you need to know about the moderation on this sub.
It's supposed to represent this country at large and instead, the subs image is an in joke from a tv show that a few lads on this sub make their entire personality.
I'd like to see more use of mega threads for shit like people spamming their pets or their frys etc.
Even things like Martin Nolan shit posting which surely straddles on site wide witch hunting at this point.
Nobody wants to moderate so fair play for doing it but I feel like moderation has become way too feelings based on this sub and comes across as agenda pushing particularly with justice/crime/politics.
start cloning Wickerman so we can get some more high quality post