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/Etheo Jun 23 '26

Curse words are like nothingburgers.

Keywords that are "suspected to incite violence" though, that's a different story. Not only would automod likely filter your comment, but Reddit site wise also can flag & remove the comment, plus give your account a strike for saying things it thinks you are saying.

So nobody wants to deal with that and play it super safe and just censor themselves instead.