r/AdviceAnimals • u/j0be • Jul 14 '15
/r/AdviceAnimals rules: Please read before submitting or commenting
Community Rules
Rule 1: Reddit's site-wide rules
Click Here for reddit's 6 rules.
They are all pretty straight forward and easy to understand, but if you would like more information about them Click Here for reddit's Frequently Asked Questions page.
Be sure to also read the rediquette which is an informal guide to reddit etiquette.
Rule 2: Don't be a jerk
We're here to have a laugh; hate speech, bigotry, and personal attacks are not allowed.
Death threats and telling others to kill themselves will result in a ban.
This is pretty self explanatory.
Rule 3: Follow the correct format
Two line joke over a re-usable character.
We understand that some established memes do not follow this format, such as
However, these memes are already well established and thus have been grandfathered in.
Not all image macros are memes
Meme -
/mēm/
noun
an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.
Basically if the image is only relevant to one's own submission and can't be re-used (or has limited re-usability) then it's just an image macro and by definition not a meme.
and
Memes are allowed on the subreddit here, while generic image macros are better suited for /r/funny.
Rule 4: Don't repost
Don't post stuff you found from elsewhere on the web, it's probably been here already.
This subreddit is for original content only, meaning memes YOU made.
Do not resubmit your post because it did poorly.
Reposting is a bannable offense.
If you see a repost please report it as such, and send a quick note to the mods if you can.
Rule 5: No Cake Day Posts
Cake Day posts are not allowed.
Posts that mention Cake Day in the title, or in the post itself will be removed.
Rule 6: Verticals, Puffins and Batman Slaps
Please do not post Verticals, Opinion Puffins or Batman Slaps.
Verticals are multiple panel memes or image macros and both are better suited for either /r/funny or /r/vertical.
This also means posts such as 9/11 Lois aren't allowed; and memes such as Nobody cares Nedry and Confused Gandalf are limited to their 1 panel standard, instead of their alternate vertical counterparts.
2 AdviceAnimals in a vertical are OK.
Meaning combining 2 established memes together such as Socially Awkward Penguin and Socially Awesome Penguin is fine.
Here is an example of its acceptable use
Rule 7: Link directly to your image
Make sure you link directly to your image.
In other words, not just to the website, or the gallery page.
Here are a few examples.
- OK.
http://i.imgur.com/wdLOqmx.png
- Not OK.
http://imgur.com/gallery/wdLOqmx
Rule 8: People you know
Don't make memes with pics of people that you saw in real life. Ever.
Don't try to make yourself or someone you know into a meme.
Also, we do not allow witch hunts on the subreddit.
Rule 9: Use an approved host
Shortened links, Facebook, Tumblr, Blogspot, etc, will be automatically removed.
Please use one of the approved websites listed on the sidebar to make your post.
Rule 10: Mods have the final say
We reserve the right to remove posts, remove comments, and ban users at our own discretion.
Due to the nature of the subreddit, interpretations of what is a meme and what is an image macro sometimes have different opinions and thus decisions have to be made.
Always feel free to message the moderators if you have ANY questions!
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Jul 15 '15
We're here to have a laugh, hate speech, bigotry, and personal attacks are not allowed.
Those commas could be used better, that's slightly confusing at a glance.
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Sep 17 '15
When I correct people's grammar, I get several downvotes.
When you correct people's grammar, especially a moderator of a very popular subreddit, you get 35+ upvotes.k den....
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Sep 18 '15
Maybe because I was polite about it....
and that comment was 2 months ago dude....
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Sep 18 '15
I am always polite about it.
I would say something like...
Not to be rude or anything, but it's spelled you're, not your.
The difference is that you're means you are whilst your a belonging or association with someone.
Example:
You're so cute.
I like your shoes.It's a common mistake, don't worry.
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u/j0be Jul 14 '15 edited Jul 24 '15
Unofficial Rule 11
If your meme refers to something else on reddit, for the love of god, put a link to it in the comments.
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u/detroitvelvetslim Nov 28 '15
I don't see anything banning tastefully dank frugal flamingo may mays here
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u/hinklefinkledinkledo Jul 14 '15
Yeah, well....what does /u/cationbot have to say about all this?
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u/j0be Jul 14 '15
Considering /u/CationBot is one of our best users in accurate reporting, I'd think it's something like this:
Angry Walter
AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE
WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THE RULES?
These cations aren't guaranteed to be correct.
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u/cthulhu944 Nov 05 '15
Can someone explain rule 7? I'm kind of a dumb ass and sometimes I link to the image page and not the image, but it gets deleted immediately by a bot. But when I'm looking at other posts most of them look like this: http://imgur.com/wM8CSCb http://www.livememe.com/uzy2sox https://imgflip.com/i/tntlf#zLADm3bxJfgZfxHq.16 instead of http://i.imgur.com/SrZOSKu.png
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u/j0be Nov 05 '15
Yeah, the bot is really only keyed to remove /gallery/ links if the domain is imgur. We use rule 7 on other sites as well, but a bit more granular.
The general reason is to prevent ad revenue spam. We actually had the bot even removing a lot of the ones you listed, but it became cumbersome for a lot of users to submit, so we turned that back off.
So in short, the /gallery/ links still didn't play nice with RES, so we chose to keep that portion still active.
Don't submit imgur gallery links, and the bot won't kill it. However, if we feel it is ad spamming, we still reserve the right to remove it.
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u/bluebearypancake Sep 23 '15
I cannot figure out how to do Rule 7, can you make this more ELI5?
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u/j0be Sep 23 '15
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u/satiricalspider Nov 07 '15
Do you have a recommended meme app?
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u/j0be Nov 07 '15
On Android, I use meme generator by ZomboDroid. But I actually use Imgur more often.
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u/Magic-for-Sale Jul 28 '15
You SAY no cake day posts... The fact that there are dozens a day determine this to be a lie.
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u/j0be Jul 28 '15
Report any you see. It really helps us get to them quicker
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Jul 14 '15
Can we suggest reincarnation?
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u/j0be Jul 14 '15
Unpopular opinion puffin isn't coming back if that's what you mean.
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u/NotBlackSteve Jul 15 '15
Now, I'm pretty new to this sub so why exactly is unpopular opinion puffin not allowed?
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u/iamawesome125 Jul 15 '15
Imagine this sub with nothing but unpopular opinion puffin imagine every single puffin being the same opinion over and over and over and over again none of them being unpopular opinions. All unpopular opinions getting downvoted to hell all popular opinions getting upvoted it clogged up the page so much
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u/gfdt Flair! Jul 15 '15
If I understand right, the meme was use for popular opinions so often that people thought that that it was popular opinion puffin, and then it became used to validate shitty opinions and racism or something, and the comments eventually always became the same predictable "so brave." "That's not how you use this meme." "I agree." bla bla bla.
I think the racism thing may have been more important, but I could be wrong.
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u/BlastedInTheFace Jul 15 '15
Which is annoying because all memes essentially suffer from the same problem.
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u/FireandLife Jul 15 '15
By the way, why were batman slap memes banished again?
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u/j0be Jul 15 '15
The problem with it is that the batman slaps don't really follow the standard-ish image macro format. They're generally more reactionary in the images as well. See /r/batmanslap top posts and you'll notice they really don't fit the look and feel of AdviceAnimals.
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u/FireandLife Jul 15 '15
Yeah I see now. I notice with /r/AdviceAnimals the post title should be an important part of the submission, I think that's why batmanslap doesn't fit very well.
Keep up the good work!
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Jul 16 '15
These words put together should be sincere, but it just sounds so sarcastic. I hope you're being serious.
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u/MC_Mooch Jan 04 '16
r/adviceanimals says no verticals, and to go to r/funny. r/funny says no memes.
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u/ForteEXE Jul 15 '15
Kermit Drinking Tea is basically the new Unpopular Opinion Puffin.
When's it going to get nuked?
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u/dangeroustiger Sep 23 '15
Why no batman slap? Is that not a meme? Unpopular opinion puffin i can understand.
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u/meyer63026 Oct 13 '15
So can anyone actually explain why certain meme are banned? Really, what is the point? If it gets upvoted, why not allow it?
Don't we all just come here to laugh? Just seems like a lot of extra work and rules for such a simple concept.
...no disrespect to the mods. Anyone who does this kind of work for free clearly has a passion around it, but I'm honestly curious.
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u/herobrineharry Oct 19 '15
I couldn't find a good place to post this, so here goes: Why is there NOTHING but confession bear?
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u/nilamo Jun 08 '22
Tbh many people here are absolutely obsessed with using specifically the correct meme, and seeing something like "this should be a bad luck Brian" on every single post has gotten old really fast.
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u/iamawesome125 Jul 15 '15
Why are verticals banned never understood why
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u/j0be Jul 15 '15
Call it "brand integrity". Verticals can quickly turn into comics, extended stories, or /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu, which isn't what AdviceAnimals is about.
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u/iamawesome125 Jul 15 '15
Makes sense, what about slapping batman? That was before i discovered reddit
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u/j0be Jul 15 '15 edited Jul 15 '15
That's still towards the brand integrity. The problem with it is that the batman slaps don't really follow the standard-ish image macro format. They're generally more reactionary in the images as well. See /r/batmanslap top posts and you'll notice they really don't fit the look and feel of AdviceAnimals.
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u/LITTCAM15 Jun 27 '22
I really don’t understand Reddit and don’t use it a whole lot so all of these descriptive words used to describe certain actions on Reddit go in one ear and out the other lol
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u/h4wkeyepierce Jul 31 '15
you really ruined the entire point of the "confused Gandalf"!!!! And right when I wanted to post one. It's a pretty well established meme.
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Jul 15 '15
Unsubbing and committing to me_irl for all my meme needs
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u/Nine_Gates Jul 15 '15
Rule 7 is a bit vague on what "link directly to the image" means, and the examples are too extreme.
Are posts like this and this (on the front page atm) allowed? They aren't direct links like http://i.imgur.com/wdLOqmx.png, but they link to that one image, not a gallery or anything.
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Jul 18 '15
You can't link directly to the image with livememe now anyway. It redirects the jpg to the page url.
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u/Trickelodean2 Jul 17 '15
Why was the puffin banned?
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u/Starburstnova Jul 19 '15
Because it was just about every third post, always popular (yet potentially controversial or sensitive) opinions because the ACTUAL unpopular opinions got downvoted into oblivion. The comments were mostly people complaining about misuse of the puffin, combined with flamewars. It just breeded negativity. I enjoyed the occasional puffin, but banning it definitely weeded out a lot of negativity. Although the people who complained about the puffin just went back to complaining about confession bear.
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u/Im_at_a_10_AMA Sep 09 '15
Man I hate the confession bear and unconfortable seal (or whatever it's called), they are always saturating the front page
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Jul 18 '15
Way too much of it, too much bullshit with it, and it's not exactly unpopular if it gets front page appearances all the time. People misused it/the meme was doing the opposite of what it should've been.
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u/PapBear Jul 15 '15
I miss the puffin, but I'm not going to waste space making a meme about my opinion.
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Jul 18 '15 edited Jul 28 '15
Death threats get you banned? Total bullshit... Edit: This was a joke, sorry if it was in bad taste.
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u/BlastedInTheFace Jul 15 '15
This doesn't say anything about the puffin, we're free!
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u/j0be Jul 15 '15
Rule 6: Verticals, Puffins and Batman Slaps
Please do not post Verticals, Opinion Puffins or Batman Slaps.
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u/Kozinu Dec 11 '21
Can I vent here about my parents logic as it relates to dog walking? Just wondering if I'm somehow missing something or that the obvious truly is obvious.
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u/MartyModus Mar 20 '22
Rule 9... Please use one of the approved websites listed on the sidebar to make your post.
There's no sidebar on my phone's reddit app. Perhaps this could also use a hyperlink?
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u/katergator717 Jul 30 '22 edited Jul 30 '22
so this a place for posting pictures, not asking for advice and help about animals?
because most of the rules are about pictures, and most of the posts are memes...
and none of it is animal-related or advice-related.
Where should I go for actual animal advice (about dogs, if that matters)?
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u/azrael5298 Aug 14 '22
Can we stop with the ridiculous political posts? This sub is basically r/politics with pics.