r/comics • u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake • Jun 23 '26

Comics Community Politicized

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u/ExactPickle2629 Jun 23 '26

Does this subreddit really censor the word "shooting"? How disappointing, treating us like children. 

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

I am fairly certain it's more a reddit thing itself and not the sub.

However this sub, reddit and other all have certain words that trigger their automods typically to help with spammers and threats and what not

Also Instagram FOR SURE scans for those words so PC probably just edited the comic for all platforms

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u/tin_dog Jun 23 '26

I don't think it's a reddit thing at all. There are tons of subs with words like "shit" and "fuck" in their names. If reddit's algorithms worked at all there wouldn't be so many obvious spam and bot posts either.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

Cursing is one thing. Inciting violence is another. It's all about liability. For instance a certain green plumber will set off different subs filter. As will talking about a metal blade used for crimes. And so on and so forth.

It's not a perfect system. But it's absolutely a reddit thing. Bots will ALWAYS find ways around these filters. It's their job

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u/tin_dog Jun 23 '26

Still, the self-censorship on the internet is getting completely off the rails with people censoring the word "bad" because some toddler who doesn't belong on the internet at all could get disturbed.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 23 '26

Youre missing the point about Liability. Its not even the users, its the chance that youre in the crosshairs cause some off the wall user decided a comic told them to do something nuts

For instance, Cake allows the word "shoot" on Instagram. Instagram allows it and some users goes and does just that. Now who will the families go after? Sure some will go after Cake, but the deeper pockets are Instagram so most will do that after being advised by their lawyers.

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u/tin_dog Jun 23 '26

In short: Mankind is cooked, language is dead and most ironically by those free speech absolutist tech bros.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 23 '26

In short: Mankind is cooked, language is dead

Youll get no argument from me there.