r/quityourbullshit • u/thekenzo • Feb 10 '15

Calling out /r/unexpectedoutcome for claiming /r/Unexpected is moving there so they can bump up their subscribers.

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u/thekenzo Feb 10 '15

Here are the responses from actual /r/Unexpected moderators.

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u/MR_RC Feb 10 '15

Please some tell me the story of the turf war!

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u/sarge21 Feb 10 '15

The turf wars of 2013 ended unexpectedly

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u/Nowin Feb 10 '15

I did not see that coming.

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u/k_rol Feb 10 '15

So... would you say it was unexpected?

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u/Oooch Feb 10 '15

There's no way 2013 was 2 years ago it was like a few weeks ago!

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u/ProtoKun7 Feb 10 '15

If by a few you mean at least 58.

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u/Thebubumc Feb 10 '15

Yup, and 2005 was only 2-3 years ago.

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u/TheReasonableCamel Feb 10 '15

There's not much to tell, the two subreddits were competing for a few months and both were around 20,000 subscribers. It was decided that all mods would move to r/unexpected and the modlist was reshuffled. There was only 3 mods on that sub since it was just used as an redirect, I was one but was removed when one of them decided they wanted to try and re-open the sub.

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u/MR_RC Feb 10 '15

Hmm that was unexpected. No. Just kidding. Thanks

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u/APPARENTLY_HITLER Feb 10 '15

u/vxx asked me specifically through skype to please merge into his sub since it was originally his idea. I talked u/topodan into making the switch. I'm pretty sure it's all still stored in the modmail hahaha. Would be fun to post that whole drama.

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u/MR_RC Feb 10 '15

Please. Please. Do

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u/ONE_GUY_ONE_JAR Feb 10 '15

Surely you will deliver on this. I'll just sit here and wait.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

That would be a great read.

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u/SometimesIArt Feb 10 '15

I did notice the CSS; if you look at their stylesheets, they literally copy and pasted it and then deleted the chunks that the stylesheet would not authenticate (like the subreddit name).

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u/mydogisarhino Feb 13 '15

If they really were moving subs, you think there'd be a big post in r/Unexpected to let the subscribers there know what changes were happening, or even just a redirection. It's so poorly planned out, I can't believe they thought no one would see through it...

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u/spidersnake Feb 10 '15

They even banned me for asking them questions. The "note from moderators" was simply:

"you may not ask why"

It's crazy, most of the last posts on that sub were made well over a year ago.

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u/thekenzo Feb 10 '15

I was banned as well. Same excuse.

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u/spidersnake Feb 10 '15

What was up with that canned response of "This is now the new hub for all things unexpected!" being used over and over again?

The guy didn't even put any effort into this supposed take over.

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u/sraldleif Feb 10 '15

It almost has a cult-like vibe to it

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u/DuBistMeinSofa Feb 10 '15

Yeah it's weird, all of the all-time top posts have upvotes in the hundreds but every last one was posted by one of the mods, u/APPARENTLY_HITLER. Seems to be creating his own little fantasy realm over there. Haha

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u/theskabus Feb 10 '15

Same thing to me. Except I'm an r/unexpected mod. So I banned them back.

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u/ensign_paris Feb 10 '15

Anyone care to explain this? Is this really some redditautomagic?

Imgur

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u/MarkGruffallo Feb 10 '15

u/ensign_paris, You are fined 1 Credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.

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u/ensign_paris Feb 10 '15

Damn. I admit guilt. how do i pay? is it sufficient if i send you my credit card number via private message?

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u/Tray2daC Feb 10 '15

I actually find that kind of hilarious, but then again, I also love Demolition Man.

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u/SometimesIArt Feb 10 '15

Hijacking the top comment to say do NOT go visit the subreddit and if you did, go back and unsubscribe yourself. The assholes coded an auto-sub where if you visit the subreddit, you're automatically subscribed. Fucking assholes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '15

Wow, no way that can be okay by Reddit rules.

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u/vxx Feb 11 '15

It's a bannable offense. Talk to the admins about it.

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u/SometimesIArt Feb 11 '15

Well I sent them a message but so should everyone else so that it gets lots of exposure

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u/SuperFreddy Feb 11 '15

I bet you didn't expect that though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '15

That was me. You may still not ask why.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

I love the "working out the details" part.

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u/HeyThereMrBrooks Feb 10 '15

"Just working out the kinks, you know how it is" 

 - /r/unexpectedoutcome mods

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

Ooh kinky ;)

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u/APPARENTLY_HITLER Feb 10 '15

glad to hear you liked it! come buy and subscribe for more details!

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

You seriously need to think about what you're doing with your life.

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u/jiggabot Feb 10 '15

This is so sad. It's not even like they are trying to do anything new with their subreddit.

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u/EggheadDash Feb 10 '15

Why would you do this?

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

who the fuck knows

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u/Random_Link_Roulette Feb 10 '15

Pissed off at the sub, trying to steal the subees

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u/ninja_in_camo64 Feb 10 '15

I ... I think they're called subscribers.

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u/Random_Link_Roulette Feb 10 '15

Por que no los dos?

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u/ninja_in_camo64 Feb 10 '15

Por que there's no need for two words. Sorry to shit on your parade.

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u/SometimesIArt Feb 10 '15

Do NOT go visit the subreddit and if you did, go back and unsubscribe yourself. The assholes coded an auto-sub where if you visit the subreddit, you're automatically subscribed. Fucking assholes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '15

Haha doesn't work on iPad

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u/kylestephens54 Feb 10 '15

It's funny how far people will go for worthless Internet points.

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u/salacious_c Feb 10 '15

I was just going to ask- who the fuck cares? Why are there ads for subreddits? What does being the mod of a popular sub get you in real life?

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u/Royal-Al Feb 10 '15

I've heard that some mods of the most popular default subreddits can get paid to suppress and manipulate certain content from undisclosed sponsors.

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u/salacious_c Feb 10 '15

Yeah, I remember the whole /adviceanimals scandal. I guess I keep forgetting how much traffic those subs get and even subtle manipulation could throw a lot of traffic to third parties.

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u/fishchunks Feb 10 '15

Being involved in a community you like and want others to be passionate aboyr. Plus you can influence stuff in your community

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u/EtsuRah Feb 10 '15

I agree with your overall point. But I think ads for subreddits is really cool. It introduces new subs and it keeps advertising in-house as opposed to advertising that Game of War app or whatever else.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

Being a mod of a famous sub must feel good.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

Well that is probably not about the points as much as it's about getting the power over a potentially pretty big subreddit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

Points are the useless but users are valuable. Mod of r/adviceanimals that pushed for allowing only quickmeme links, a site which he owned, made millions util he was discovered. Mod of r/trees also pushed some of his stuff using the sub.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

While I have everyone's ear, I'f like to announce that r/quityourbullshit is moving to r/tifu. See y'all there!

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u/Chuzzwazza Feb 10 '15

Is this not something that is against the global rules of Reddit? Could action not be taken against the offending mods or the entire subreddit itself?

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u/APPARENTLY_HITLER Feb 10 '15

idk lol call 911

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u/DudeDude2020 Feb 10 '15

Get out of here dweeb

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u/TheChance Feb 10 '15

A thread linking to this thread has just been deleted over there, along with any other reference to this - except for the mod's mad "announcement".

This is fascinating.

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u/m-p-3 Feb 12 '15

And I'm banned for calling the bullshit as well.

Oh noooo, I can't visit this sub anymore? What a tragedy!

Boo-fucking-hoo, u/APPARENTLY_HITLER

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u/APPARENTLY_HITLER Feb 10 '15

omg that's me!

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u/br0000d Feb 10 '15

if r/unexpected actually did move now...that'd be an unexpected outcome.

i'll see myself out

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u/deadman343 Feb 10 '15

this was unexpected

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u/fatalcharm Feb 10 '15 edited Feb 10 '15

It's pretty obvious that they are just trolling when you read the thread making the announcement. The moderator's responses to legitimate questions had me in stitches. Reading through it cheered me up on a crappy day.

EDIT: Wow. I'm sorry that reading that thread cheered me up on an otherwise horrible day. It seems that some redditors were offended by my brief moment of laughter.

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u/Sevrons Feb 10 '15

Nice try apparentlyhitler

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

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u/thekenzo Feb 10 '15

Sorry about the downvotes. :(

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

Found the bullshitter

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

Wow. It was a joke. Talk about vote brigade

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u/tommy_two_beers Feb 10 '15

Its a prank! its a prank!!

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

Doesn't make joke obvious

Claims vote brigade

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u/APPARENTLY_HITLER Feb 10 '15

No that's me you illiterate hobo

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u/TheBescumbering Feb 10 '15

Yeah, time to move to the best unexpected sub, /r/UnexpectedOutcome

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u/ILLITERATE_HOBO Feb 10 '15

As a mod of r/UnexpectedOutcome, AMA

Edit: And I'm not personally offended, but if you look at the comments in the stickied thread of r/UnexpectedOutcome you can clearly see the downvote brigade that is r/QuitYourBullshit. Remember guys, "this subreddit is not a downvote brigade".

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u/TheChance Feb 10 '15

Has it occurred to you that perhaps some of the not-quite-14,000 subscribers (and dropping!) are responsible for most of those downvotes?

You've left a number of us hanging vis-a-vis how we even became subscribed to that sub. Was it almost-active a couple of years ago, and we've all just forgotten about it?

At any rate, you guys are both moderators of 20+ other subs, some of which are, you know, real - and this goes beyond "not instilling a great deal of confidence" and ventures into "outright alarming" territory.

What are you even thinking, presenting the impression that you're both having some kind of mental break on a sub that 100% of subscribers had forgotten about? What impression do you expect to leave, when a subreddit we don't recognize pops up on our front page informing us that a subreddit we do recognize is relocating there, only to respond to all comments with rude "jokes"?

I really doubt that either of you will have any credibility among other moderators by this time tomorrow.

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u/shithandle Feb 10 '15

Exactly. I do not remember subbing to that at all, and now its in my feed? Really weird.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

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u/APPARENTLY_HITLER Feb 10 '15

no i think it is alluminotty

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u/ILLITERATE_HOBO Feb 10 '15

What are some of these rude jokes I respond with?

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u/APPARENTLY_HITLER Feb 11 '15

are you always this much of a donut?

edit: confirmed he is always this much of a donut

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u/Robbomot Feb 10 '15

wtf is going on?

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25

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u/lumos8 Feb 11 '15

I apologize if subscribers of our sub are downvote brigading you. We try (emphasis on try) to minimize the effects of downvote brigading, but at the end of the day--reddit is reddit, and once you're a target (rightfully or wrongfully so), there's not much that can be done.

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u/ILLITERATE_HOBO Feb 11 '15

Yeah I understand, I obviously don't blame the moderation for this, and I really don't care at all, I was just hoping to encourage people to think about the rules (or request) before downvoting.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

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u/lumos8 Feb 11 '15

Really necessary? Remember reddiquette.

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u/APPARENTLY_HITLER Feb 11 '15

yes necessary m8 he is this loser that is in cahoots with me

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u/KingBatista Feb 10 '15

Congrats Sherlock.

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u/APPARENTLY_HITLER Feb 10 '15

The sub is dead you stupid fucks we are just fucking around with the remaining subscribers. How retarded are you guys??? Hahahha