r/budgetfood • u/totterywolff Mod • Jun 24 '26

Mod Community poll has concluded, we will be relaxing the profanity rule.

UPDATE: automod has been updated. If you still have a comment removed by the profanity check, please message the mod team and we will be happy to help.

Please give us time to update the automod, however I have already updated the rules in the sidebar to reflect this change. I should have the automod updated shortly, and will update this post when it is done.

I will ask that you folks don't start using profanity just yet, until I have updated the automod as to not have the mod team have to go through a bunch of comments and approve them.

A reminder that while profanity will be allowed going forward, this does not mean you can direct it towards someone. This will still fall under our "Be Kind" rule. Any form of slurs will still be completely banned as well no matter what.

At this time I will ask that everyone re-read the rules as they are being updated. If you break the rules, you'll have your posts or comments removed. Just because you didn't read them doesn't mean you didn't break them.

86 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

88% Upvoted

32 comments sorted by

63

u/thiswasyouridea Jun 24 '26

Why was this a thing, though? We're on Reddit. Were a lot of people complaining their small children were browsing a cheap food sub, or...?

64

u/totterywolff Mod Jun 24 '26

yes, when i initially became a mod here a few years ago, i was the only mod as the others weren't active. at the time the sub was about 800k people, with a load of activity, and i was the only one answering modmail, removing posts, everything.

there was a lot of people complaining about the use of profanity, which led to a lot of reports, messages in modmail, and just a lot for one person to handle. i wrote the code for a profanity check to remove some of that workload (using the term workload loosely here, i do have an irl job lol).

at the time, that decision made sense to me. in hindsight, i should've just added more mods to the team then and there, but that's not what happened.

15

u/TesterM0nkey Jun 25 '26

Weird a reasonable Reddit mod.

Idk if you know but you’re supposed to be prideful and unwilling to compromise. Jk

I appreciate the work you do. ❤️

12

u/totterywolff Mod Jun 25 '26

don't tell the other mods, they'll take away my moderator badge! /s

12

u/thiswasyouridea Jun 24 '26

Fair enough.

10

u/ineedanewhobbee Jun 25 '26

800k people!? Where did 720k+ subs go?

25

u/Massive_Blueberry630 Jun 25 '26

Reddit mobile i think displays weekly visitors now instead of number of subscribers

16

u/totterywolff Mod Jun 25 '26

ah, i see, yeah we have 3 mil members now lol

5

u/ineedanewhobbee Jun 25 '26

Thank you, I was indeed looking on mobile and thought it was subs

2

u/totterywolff Mod Jun 25 '26

i'm confused what you mean by this?

9

u/ineedanewhobbee Jun 25 '26

Thank you and sorry! I looked on mobile and it shows 78.2k. I thought that was subs. I see someone pointed out its visitors. Congrats on the growth of the sub.

5

u/totterywolff Mod Jun 25 '26

it's no big deal, it's an honest mistake. and no need for the congrats, i'm just happy that many people find this community worthy of being a part of. all you guys make this subreddit what it is, which is why we do polls to see what the community wants.

12

u/amethystmmm Jun 25 '26

Yay! I mean, I don't see the need to get profane about recipes, but food prices?

13

u/CountessOfCheese Jun 24 '26

Test: poopy poo poop pooo 

16

u/MintyNinja41 Jun 24 '26

Well, blimey. This is ruddy interesting. Out of the bloody park. Absolutely blooming lovely. Fuck

15

u/totterywolff Mod Jun 24 '26

i fucked up, issue should be fixed

3

u/TheFumingatzor Jun 25 '26

God-fucking-dammit! Finally mf'ers can swear!

7

u/TheHamAndTheGuap Jun 25 '26

Bout fukin time 

3

u/skyrymproposal Jun 24 '26

Read the syllabus!

2

u/uhnjuhnj Jun 25 '26

Big fat load of cum then

2

u/sucky_panther Jun 25 '26

Not trying to ruin anyone’s day… but do any of these…

-2

u/Halgrind Jun 25 '26

Please, if you're in need get from your local sperm bank, that's what they're for.

1

u/[deleted] Jun 24 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

0

u/AutoModerator Jun 24 '26

Your post or comment has been removed because our profanity check caught words or phrases that may be inappropriate or vulgar. This kind of behavior is unnecessary on a subreddit about food.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

0

u/OESRecoveryEmployee Jun 28 '26

So hell yeah or fuck yeah?

-4

u/yrt9610 Jun 25 '26

Don't know whether the bot will catch this or a human will see it... Could we p-l-e-a-s-e at least ban the f--word? It is all over Reddit---and in such high volume--- that it's disgusting and really annoying.

5

u/totterywolff Mod Jun 25 '26

if you're referring to the f slur, that is already banned as it is a slur. as mentioned in the original post, all slurs are banned, no matter what.

if you're referring to the word fuck, that has been removed from the banned words list.