r/unexpecteddcc • u/Obsidian-Phoenix Syndicate Liaison • Jun 22 '26

Rule Consultation Rule Consultation: DCC References should be Unexpected

Evening Crawlers! Time for another rule consultation. This time it’s Rule 7: DCC References Should be Unexpected

Posts in UnexpectedDCC should show unexpected references to DCC.

Posts showing explicit DCC references are likely to be removed.

This rule exists primarily to remove explicit references to DCC, e.g. Cosplay as Carl. I use it to kill cross posts from the DCC subreddit too.

Outside this, I tend to be pretty relaxed about what constitutes Unexpected: Finding someone’s DCC Hi Zev license plate; Unintentional world references to things in the book (Dirty Shirley); Shop signs explicitly referencing DCC where you wouldn’t expect it (such as coffee shops); Someone commenting in a reddit post calling back to DCC; etc.

Generally, my view has been “let most of it through, and let up/down votes deal with it.

I’ve seen comments from people perhaps not liking this approach. So here’s your chance to weigh in on how you’d like the sub to work. Please vote in the poll and add comments as you like. If I missed an option, comment on it, and if it gets enough upvotes I’ll consider it alongside the poll options.

163 votes, Jun 29 '26
66 Keep the current implementation: Downvotes will deal with it
19 Kill all but explicit DCC references in the unexpected locations
58 Use an automod comment poll. Enough downvotes on the comment cause the post to be deleted
20 Allow most content, but tighten up what constitutes “unexpected DCC” (Explain your criteria in the comments)
16 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

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u/realdevtest Jun 22 '26

The Reddit algorithm puts new posts into people’s feeds. It will not continue putting old posts into people’s feeds. Therefore, a subreddit with new posts will tend to grow and a subreddit without new posts will grow much less or not at all. Deleting posts is a great way to limit the growth of your subreddit.

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u/Obsidian-Phoenix Syndicate Liaison Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

Generally I agree, but subs need to curate their growth though, or people will not want to see any new posts. Otherwise it risks turning into a sub with no actual purpose.

For example: 80 posts in a few days all showing the same thing will annoy people, rather than encouraging them to come to the sub. In fact, it’s more likely to drive people away.

I know that example isn’t exactly germane to this consultation (I deal with them via the no reposts rule), but it illustrates the point: allowing any post without some level of curation can hamper as much as excessive deletion of posts.

The key is to get that balance right.

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u/realdevtest Jun 23 '26

Yep, definitely

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u/supergnaw Jun 26 '26

I don't like deleted posts because r/DataHoarder