r/complaints • • Feb 18 '26

Announcement Update to Rule 6: Self Promotion is Allowed Within the New Rule

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Self promotion of user generated content is permitted provided it is presented as a complaint, critique, grievance, or documented problem, rather than as pure advertising. The content must centre a substantive issue, failure, or harm, with the creator’s work used as context or evidence, not the point. Posts framed primarily to solicit clicks, sales, or followers will be removed.

If you have a question, feel free to ask here.

In summation, if your personal content on a platform like, but not limited to YouTube, Substack, DeviantArt, or Medium, then you may post it here if it conforms to the above rule. Basically, any form of something resembling a complaint, is allowed.

As always, if this is abused or gets too spam like, it can be removed under moderator discretion.


r/complaints • • Feb 04 '26

Announcement Major Changes to Rule 10: What IS and IS NOT Permitted When Posting About Other Subreddits

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in reviewing how other similar subreddits to ourselves operate, we are completely overhauling Rule 10.

You now may post complaints about other subreddits, issues you have with them, and even complain about moderation decisions. So long as the below Rule changes are followed in full. The moderation staff here has authority under Rule 5 to remove posts they feel can endanger the subreddit itself.

Please feel free to respectfully ask questions here about how this rule will be applied.

And now the new rule:

Why This Does Not Constitute Harassment:

Criticism or discussion of subreddit moderation, rule enforcement, or community conduct does not constitute harassment when it is directed at actions, policies, or outcomes rather than at individuals for the purpose of intimidation, abuse, or coercion.

Harassment under Reddit policy requires targeted abuse, threats, or behaviour intended to cause distress or silence participation. Good faith discussion of moderation decisions, including dissatisfaction or critique, is a form of platform accountability and does not meet the threshold for harassment when conducted under the restrictions outlined below.

The inability of a subject to prevent discussion of their public actions does not itself render that discussion harassing.

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r/complaints • • 4h ago

Politics I am fed up with anti-Maga republicans blaming democrats for their own party's faults

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I have grown fed up with anti-MAGA Republicans who blame Biden, Kamala, Obama, and their other bogeymen as the reason why their party is so flawed. I am fed up with anti-Trump Republicans who idolize Bush, Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Rubio, "Moscow Mitch," and the rest. They act as if their party never did terrible things before Trump came along. They stood by for decades as their corrupt party spread lies and hatred, both domestically and internationally. They act as if Reagan were a saint, despite his scandals. They feel zero remorse for the deaths caused by their foreign policies. If America is to properly heal, ALL Republicans must be held accountable for their role in America's disunity and damaged international reputation. Being anti-Trump should be the bare minimum. Do not claim a person is good simply because they are anti-Trump.


r/complaints • • 7h ago

Politics Zionists are the new nazis

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How does it feel that you are doing the same things to the Palestinians that Hitler did to a lot of your ancestors? Israel belongs to the palestinians. No ifs ands or buts. Zionists are colonizers.


r/complaints • • 3h ago

Politics If the a President believing he can arbitrarily decide and enforce which words we can use is not evidence of complete insanity I honestly think we have entered the Twilight Zone!

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And Republicans just shrug! Just bring out the cool aid already and let them drink!


r/complaints • • 13h ago

Politics I keep hearing that billionaires don't have the liquid assets to pay taxes and they shouldn't be taxed on unrealized gains....so how do they have hundreds of millions of dollars to put into republican super pacs?

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r/complaints • • 12m ago

Politics President Pudding Brains is bragging again and the cult is too stupid to understand it’s another total con-job

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Shitler is taking another victory lap over pirating the resources of a sovereign nation while the MAGA faithful cheer him on. Proudly displaying a tanker filled with Venezuelan oil the redhats will no doubt be glazing their pedophile piper for trying to bring relief to surging fuel prices brought on by an idiotic war of choice to open a straight that wasn’t closed. Surely a tanker full of Venezuelan oil captured while illegally kidnapping a head of state should help, if only marginally, to take a few cents off gas/diesel crushing Americans wallets and bankrupting trucking companies, right?

Wrong. The US has no capacity to refine Venezuelan crude. American oil companies do not have the capability nor have they signaled any interest in investing billions of dollars to retool existing facilities or build new ones to refine Venezuelan oil. This is, as are all things with Pedolph, a complete con job on the American people. This giant floating tub of oil that is useless to Americans will likely follow the same path as oil tankers previously seized from Venezuela. That oil was sold at a discount to another country with the proceeds going into a Qatari account illegally controlled by the Cheeto Pedo outside of congressional oversight.

Nothing but more blatant criminal corruption to con the dumbest cult in existence.


r/complaints • • 1h ago

Politics No long term objective observer of Donald and his numerous interviews, videos, public statements and depositions can doubt the following “Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of young women during the mid to late 1990s."

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Summary statement from the recent Congressional Report!


r/complaints • • 15h ago

Politics Obama has finally come around on Palestine! In response, Netanyahu had a lot to say. I’ll leave it up to you on how you view the genocidal ethnostate that is Israel. At the end of the day, Netanyahu is pathetic.

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Free Palestine!


r/complaints • • 1h ago

Nature / Environment Is there a better argument for taxing billionaire wealth than the statistics in this article?

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Not only do the super-rich over-contribute to climate change, they profit from the response to climate disasters. And in the U.S., we let them deduct the cost of their stupid private jets from their taxes.Time for wealth taxes on the rich.

Here's one statistic from the article: "The richest 0.1% on the planet, a group of 8 million people, are responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 3.5 billion combined, the report says. As a result, this group have reportedly contributed by 125 times more than the average person to extreme heat events."


r/complaints • • 5h ago

Politics Sick of dealing with politically ignorant white supremacist a-holes

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For context, I'm Chinese. And I hope I didn't tag this wrongly.
I'm also sick of imperialists and capitalists' nonsense. Just stop.

I’m not sure which form counts as “complaining”—I’ve never written a complaint letter. Anyway, I’m personally really passionate about Star Trek. I mostly watch TOS, and recently there was a Star Trek fan convention, so I joined the organizers’ group chat.

When I mentioned that Chris Pine's involvement in that “peace letter” made me not want to watch AOS anymore, a Pine fan jumped in and, for some reason, tried to “correct me” and defend Pine's reputation.

By that point, I was so angry my hands were shaking, but I could tell right away what kind of person she was. It's obvious she didn't care about Palestinians. She just wanted to worship a white man without guilt.
I also didn’t see the point in continuing the conversation—after all, she’d clearly already made up her mind.

(I never took the initiative to expand on the topic of Pine; she was the one who suddenly brought up the issue I’d casually mentioned two conversations ago.)

(I speak Chinese, she speaks Chinese, and I don't know how to describe her tone—it was just the most backhanded, caustic tone you can imagine, the kind where every word carries a hidden meaning. It pissed me off bad.)

I found it disgusting. She wanted me to respect someone who remained silent, someone with a jewish background, who hangs out with Gal Gadot—a person who doesn't take a stand in the face of genocide and war. She even brought up how Star Trek is an inclusive world where people of all beliefs deserve respect. (but apparently that does not include me, huh?)

I thought she was completely misguided, but I knew that arguing with her would only lead to a shouting match, a waste of energy, and make everyone present feel awkward. I told her there was no need to discuss this further, since I’d already reached my own conclusion, and she clearly had hers.

I didn’t say “we'd fight if this goes on” bluntly, considering we all already knew that continuing the conversation wouldn’t end well.

Hmm… I guess I’m still a little angry when I think about it. I think she’s disgraceful.
Just like those Westerners—or foreigners, for that matter—who claim not to care about what the Japanese did during their invasion of China, and that they still love Japanese.

If the Palestinian people were Chinese instead, would she still be so condescending? Would a white man, who doesn’t explicitly support her survival, earn her respect and understanding? When the fires of war reach her own doorstep, will she still be able to say things like that?

According to her, if this were the Star Trek universe, the characters on the Enterprise would have long since been rushing to oppose the war and carry out rescue missions.

Chris Pine isn’t Jim Kirk—so I don’t know what she was trying to prove to me. “Correcting” me wouldn’t change a thing; his silence speaks volumes.

Greta Thunberg, Liam Neeson, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Affleck—so many people are willing to speak out against war and massacre, even going so far as to provide aid in person or donate funds. But he can’t? Hah. (signed that letter for Humanitarianism my ass, he does not care)

Yeah, I’m still pretty angry.

That self-righteous womanchild said I’m too critical of others, but isn’t she criticizing me just as much? I never planned to have this discussion in the first place. It just wasn’t the right time or place. What she thinks is none of my damn business—she’s the one who came to harass me.

I'll refrain from calling her names, I'm finished.


r/complaints • • 5m ago

Politics The Department of Justice's $1 million offer to researchers to link gender dysphoria and transgender people to violent crime is blatantly anti science and obvious scapegoating.

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Department of Justice to fund studies of gender dysphoria and violent behavior | Science | AAAS

Do I even have to explain why this is deeply fucked? Like, this is straight up Nazi shit.

If there was a really strong link between being trans and being violent it would have been found a long ass time ago. This is just fishing for the data you want so you can send people to death camps.


r/complaints • • 15h ago

Politics Russia is assisting Iran with targeting on US Soldiers and their Allies and yet Trump is clearly giving Russia relief on many fronts!

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Looks like treason!


r/complaints • • 19h ago

Politics I'm a trans woman and I cannot control how you react to my body in the swim locker room. Please just let me change in the stall and be on my way.

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I have been on HRT for over a decade. I actively try to avoid showing off pieces of myself as much as possible and will change in a stall literally any time that option is available.

I just want to use the pool because it's good low joint impact exercise for folks like me with connective tissue disorders. That's it. I am not here to do whatever unspeakable acts you seem to constantly project onto me. I just want to go swimming. And I don't want to have to out myself to do that.


r/complaints • • 23h ago

Politics I find it hypocritical that Texas Republicans are against legalizing Marijuana but are fine with not regulating air quality!

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Estimates show that over 8,400 Texans die prematurely each year from poor air quality.

There were no recorded deaths caused by a toxic overdose of marijuana alone in Texas last year


r/complaints • • 2h ago

Politics The 🍊💩's proposed study linking trans therapy with violence

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As you read this, I would like to remind everybody what happened in Utah.

In 2023, Utah lawmakers banned gender affirming medical care for trans youth while claiming what they really needed was more evidence. As part of that law, they commissioned an enormous review of the existing research so they could supposedly make an informed decision about whether the ban should remain.

Then their own study came back.

It reviewed 277 studies involving more than 28,000 young patients and concluded that the evidence supported gender affirming treatment as effective in improving mental health and psychosocial outcomes. The researchers also concluded that the evidence did not justify policies preventing trans youth from accessing that care.

So what did the lawmakers who demanded the evidence do when the evidence didn't tell them what they wanted to hear?

They basically shoved it under the rug and kept the ban anyway. They later moved toward making the restrictions permanent.

Remember that while reading about the federal government now offering money for research specifically framed around gender dysphoria and violent crime.

Because commissioning research is not necessarily the same thing as being willing to follow the evidence wherever it leads.

Utah already gave us a pretty fucking good demonstration of what can happen when the people asking the question have already decided what they want the answer to be.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/administration-seeks-researchers-to-link-gender-dysphoria-to/


r/complaints • • 21h ago

Politics Birds of a feather

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Every accusation is a confession with these people.


r/complaints • • 10h ago

Lifestyle Samsung update

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Samsung update

Holy shit this new UI 9.0 or whatever it is update is soo ugly

Its looks so ugly bro like thats my only complaint, like things are too big and you cant adjust it, like theres this Google search bar that you cant remove and like you cant even move it up or down 💔✌️

Some of us dont want that, atp Samsung can go back to copying apple or whatever because what is this. They're trying new things with how your apps looks... IT ALWAYS LOOKS SHIT

And my music apps look so neon yet transparent, those two SHOULD NOT BE MIXED.

Honestly im just crashing out on something that could have been fixed if like maybe Samsung thought that" hey maybe some people wouldn't like how this update will make their phone look so maybe JUST maybe we can allow them to like adjust it or give the option of keeping the icons looking the same " Holy shit bro😭 im one more ugly update to moving to apple. Im so done. Like atleast give us a preview on how you'll make the icons will look like before fucking changing everything 💔

Its such a non-issue ik but still IT LOOKS SO UGLY 😔like so sorry for having a preference on how big,thick, transparent I want MY icons look yk like damn my bad ig


r/complaints • • 22h ago

Politics Israel is psyopping me on Instagram

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Ad after ad for Hebrew day-schools, trips to Israel, donations to charities supporting the IDF, literally 90% of the ads I get are about Israel or related to Judaism in some way. I don't give a fuck about either, I am a goy who just wants to be left alone.


r/complaints • • 20h ago

Politics It is no accident that Trump is amping up the goodies to Putin as the Mid-Term Elections approach!! Lifting various sanctions on Putin’s “slush funds” slow rolling munitions deliveries and restricting Intelligence to Ukraine and allowing crude oil shipments!

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He is sending a clear message to Russia and if’s disinformation army!


r/complaints • • 16h ago

Work It’s like the number one rule of what NOT to do

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I’m a high schooler, and we had an assembly for “mental health” (he was mostly just telling stories of how he was made fun of/bullied for being interested in radios, and how to make friends) by someone (I don’t remember their name) who doesn’t work in the school district or live in the city, he was from Canada I think. I don’t remember much of what he said because I couldn’t hear well but one thing I heard was basically “If you know someone who is thinking about committing suicidal, text them and when they say thanks, you’ve prevented them from doing so.” Me and my friends immediately were shocked and talking about since the in our opinion TEXTING IS ONE OF THE THINGS NOT TO DO! And also if all they say is “thanks” they’ll still likely do it. If you can’t call; then fine, BUT call them as soon as you physically can. My and friends agreed that if one of our friends is in that situation, WE ARE CALLING OR GOING OVER, and staying in the call until the person falls asleep, and calling back in the morning or staying call all night to make sure that they are still there. TALKING ABOUT THIS TYPE OF STUFF IS HIS ENTIRE JOB AND HE STILL FUCKED IT UP! Not to mention he also apparently(we talked about the assembly in a different class and this is one of the things I heard another student say) said that “if you’re getting bullied, at least you’re getting attention.” Like, genuinely HOW HAS HE NOT LOST HIS JOB!


r/complaints • • 19h ago

Reddit’plaint “Recommend me” is like nails on a chalkboard

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Grumpy old man rant:

I constantly see this phrase in post titles on this website and every time I do it irritates me. It makes the poster sound stupid. I don’t understand how this came to be the standard way to ask this. Especially because a grammatically correct request is even shorter! What’s wrong with, “can you recommend a song that sounds like black star?” Or, “can anyone recommend a good body horror movie like ‘the fly?’” Or, “I’m looking for restaurant recommendations in Chicago?”

There are a million ways to ask for a rec that don’t make the poster sound sub-literate.

Please, for the love of god, stop asking people to “recommend me” stuff!

End rant.


r/complaints • • 1d ago

Politics Trump isn't the only problem

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r/complaints • • 1d ago

Politics If you watch the videos interviewing Trump supporters outside rallies, you see how completely screwed we are - there are millions of these imbeciles

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These people have a ten year old child's mind in an old person's body. They are asked simple questions that there is only one answer to but always have some crazy way nothing is Trump's fault.

"Do you blame Trump for the war in Iran?"

"no, it's been going on since Obama was in office."

"Do you blame Trump for gas prices today?"

"No, prices always go up when elections are coming."

"Is your life better now than it was two years ago?"

"Oh yeah, way better."

"How is it better?"

"Well...er...ah...I'm not afraid to go outside..."

They have a filter in their brain that will not allow them to admit anything negative about their orange lord and the ability to make up excuses for literally everything.

I honestly believe if Trump told them they have to give him one of their daughters, it would be a badge of honor for them.

And there's millions of these idiots.

(watch the MAGA replies to this - it's always from year old accounts with 5 posts total and -99 karma)


r/complaints • • 1d ago

Politics Trump and his personal Attorney General are clearly and openly covering up Epstein evidence and MAGA shrugs and moves on!

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Are they so invested in Trump that they simply can’t change their minds?