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Has anybody noticed that r/sipstea has morphed from mildly chuddish memes to impotent political whining over the past week or so?

Yes I am aware it has had content like that in the past but this seems more blatant
"Impotent political whining" is reddit's Spanish Inquisition.

No one escapes!
 
Private torrent tracker Fearnopeer shuts down, partially because of mod drama on r/trackers and r/OpenSignups

"promotional access on a moderated subreddit was directly tied to private financial transfers with one of that subreddit's moderators. I am placing this on record as an undisclosed conflict of interest in how tracker communities are promoted on Reddit. I also observed disproportionate unsolicited promotion of certain trackers in those spaces during the same period."

FNP's visibility depended heavily on tracker-related Reddit communities, particularly r/trackers and r/OpenSignups. After an internal dispute, FNP was banned from r/OpenSignups under a stated reason of "vote manipulation and deception." I dispute that characterisation; the ban materially reduced FNP's growth.

I subsequently entered into paid arrangements with a developer publicly known under the names lexical and zakary, who also moderates r/trackers under the username aglimpseoftruth. Over approximately the last six months of 2025 and two months of 2026, I paid this individual roughly US$600–700 — for two promotional posts and a series of smaller monthly payments framed as personal support. Some prior posts negatively referencing FNP were removed during this period and have since reappeared.

This means promotional access on a moderated subreddit was directly tied to private financial transfers with one of that subreddit's moderators. I am placing this on record as an undisclosed conflict of interest in how tracker communities are promoted on Reddit. I also observed disproportionate unsolicited promotion of certain trackers in those spaces during the same period.
 
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This being an election year, it's pretty safe to say that Reddit's use as a propaganda arm is being kicked into overdrive. That's why so many subs are unusable rght now.
 
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A country name always worthy of a quick chuckle

Also with reddit Ive noticed that with hobby subs, whenever someone makes a post actually asking for advice (and using the proper dedicated 'advice pls' tag of the sub while they do it), the post will recieve some generally helpful and kind comments, but the post itself will also be downvoted in oblivion for some reason. I dont remember the last time I saw a post asking for hobby-related advice that wasnt sitting at 0⬆️ even with having 50 comments, and the post and the replies themselves are usually completely normal...
 
Like the man says, if reddit were a person:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BfQ05VQVL84
IT'S ATEN SHEI! :lol: For those not in the know, this guy is basically king Redditor. He has a breadtuber channel where he basically just does "debunks" of Confederacy beliefs like The Lost Cause and then smuckles into the camera about how smart he is and how dumb Southerners are. The guy is pompous as fuck and thinks he's some major intellectual because he mocks the Confederates. He also defends bestiality. Not like furry stuff, I mean actual bestiality.
 
This being an election year, it's pretty safe to say that Reddit's use as a propaganda arm is being kicked into overdrive. That's why so many subs are unusable rght now.
When I still used reddit every single fucking sub no matter how far removed from current events would eventually be infested with american politics. In a fair world it would be bannable.
 
I do not get how these bot farmers/super users keep their shit if real humans cant make an account unless my IP is considered too chuddy.
farming fuckton of karma is pretty easy, you go to an italian subreddit and post a picture of pasta and ask "so good amirite?" , thats just a random example but the top posts in any subreddit is always some version of this.

This is the teletubbies internet, karma farming is using reddit as intended. Break the circlejerk in any way and thats when you are off to the shadow realm.
 
This faggot is trying to get a job with the New York State Department of Health, got an STD screen and continued to have unprotected sex with 3 strangers before getting the results back. The fag thought he was getting a call about a fabulous new job, however surprise it was the department of health telling him he has yet another STD. This fag is getting absolutely roasted in the comments, and we are all just mad we get no play, and our gut biomes suck. lol, lmao even.
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I’ll keep it as short as possible for y’all. A few months ago I applied for a job with the NYS Department of Health. Not getting more descriptive than that because I don’t wanna reveal my job field. The pay is crazy good, wonderful PTO, a pension, and tons of other benefits. Anyway I heard they can take several months to get back to you. Fast forward to last week. I get a call from an unknown number with my area code. This usually means jobs reaching out for an interview. I understand the job market for most people sucks but in my field it’s really great and I’ve gotten tons of interviews so far. I pick up the phone anxiously and the lady asks if she could speak with me and that she’s from the NYS DOH. I get so excited. Finally they were reaching out to me! This job is going to change my life!
Nope.
“I’m reaching out to let you know that you tested positive for gonorrhea and we are trying to do contact tracing as it is highly prevalent in your area”
So a few things that are really grinding my gears. A) I didnt get the job (as of yet) B) I’m going to have to go on an antibiotic which will inevitably destroy my wonderful, diverse gut microbiome C) My nurse practitioner is gonna chew me out for getting an STD
TLDR: got call from NYS DOH. Thought it was a job interview for a job I applied to with them. Was them telling me I have gonorrhea.
Edit: wow I wasn’t expecting so much engagement! And so much hate! But what can you expect with a bunch of redditors who dont get any play? To clarify I did edit the post and it said that I had to contact my partners and that I had another std 6 months ago. I was being dumb and I’m deleting grindr now. I had sex with 3 people since the test before this and I told them as soon as I found out the result. Gonorrhea is curable and common, especially in my area. I get tested every two months and I’m on prep. I’ll just say stigmatizing it and making a person feel awful about it is a sure fire way to make the problem worse, and that is probably why one of my partners lied to me about testing
 
I got the reddit app after a long time with the aim of racking up karma and trolling, you know, why not. It's borderline unusable, between ads for polygamy dating sites and karma farming slop. It also feels like the userbase has become much bigger, like at least 6 times bigger and stuffed with fucking normie retards. Its so different from the reddit I knew from 2018-19, I get recommended shitty subreddits with like 1k subs and posts with 0 comments. The fuck happened, thank God kf and twitter exist, idk what I would've done without my daily dose of shitposting and shoving coal.
https://morphe.software/ Install this shit and patch out all the ads.
 
farming fuckton of karma is pretty easy, you go to an italian subreddit and post a picture of pasta and ask "so good amirite?" , thats just a random example but the top posts in any subreddit is always some version of this.

This is the teletubbies internet, karma farming is using reddit as intended. Break the circlejerk in any way and thats when you are off to the shadow realm.
Too much work, just do what the bots have done since forever and repost pictures from /top of all time from that sub, using the same title. Then use your sock accounts to repost the top comments from those posts under your own repost for guaranteed comment karma.

It's been very blatant for a long while, and could've been trivially struck down by reddit, but it gives the illusion of an active community.
 
Does anyone know how to get around a permaban? Just racked up my 3rd one for "soliciting narcotics"- vape sites stopped shipping to my area all of a sudden so I made a post asking if anyone knew what was going on.
 
Does anyone know how to get around a permaban? Just racked up my 3rd one for "soliciting narcotics"- vape sites stopped shipping to my area all of a sudden so I made a post asking if anyone knew what was going on.
Depends. Some are account bans so you just sign up with a dif browser but sometimes you get device banned and have to switch phones.

As far as karma farming goes, go to any cycling sub and post your gay ass bicycle in front of a mural of some minority, title the post with whatever Current Thing you're supposed to be for/against and let those updoots roll in.
 
This faggot is trying to get a job with the New York State Department of Health, got an STD screen and continued to have unprotected sex with 3 strangers before getting the results back. The fag thought he was getting a call about a fabulous new job, however surprise it was the department of health telling him he has yet another STD. This fag is getting absolutely roasted in the comments, and we are all just mad we get no play, and our gut biomes suck. lol, lmao even.
Was he bugchasing on purpose or whatnot? It sounds suspiciously like he was.
 
Depends. Some are account bans so you just sign up with a dif browser but sometimes you get device banned and have to switch phones.

As far as karma farming goes, go to any cycling sub and post your gay ass bicycle in front of a mural of some minority, title the post with whatever Current Thing you're supposed to be for/against and let those updoots roll in.
Pretty sure it's a device ban, it was the previous 2 times. Can't do my heckin Keanu wholesome 💯 chungus epic update I guess.
 
Pretty sure it's a device ban, it was the previous 2 times. Can't do my heckin Keanu wholesome 💯 chungus epic update I guess.
Yeah like I said reddit has utterly cracked down hard on account moderation to an annoying degree, it sucks becasue you need to use reddit for random shit when you look up things but right now its unusable making an account if you been banned before means youll lose it again. I looked it up and apparently they go deeper than browser and device tracking if the bot detects this fresh account following the same "interests" like before you could get banned for that too
 
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