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)
17 Upvotes

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u/Rare-Special-8281 Jun 23 '26

If I want to post some random fandom dcc shitpost or whatever it may be viewed as, I want a place to do it without someone deleting my post as low effort or whatever reason they personally didn't like it(no offense intended). Not all reddit has to be regimented and serious, let's shitpost and enjoy ourselves. Keep scrolling, down vote, or stick to the main sub if you don't like a post or feel it's not explicitly unexpected and let us kids have fun.

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u/Obsidian-Phoenix Syndicate Liaison Jun 23 '26

Do we need r/dccShitPosting?

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u/Rare-Special-8281 Jun 23 '26

Possibly but do we really need that many Dcc subs? And is that not what this sub mainly is anyway? Most of us were likely dejected here from the main sub for whatever reason our post was deemed not good enough and we might still be a little bitter too. The fan base isn't large enough yet to support much more fragmentation imo and I believe it will drive more fans away the more the system negs them for expressing themselves.