Oh boy. Please don’t do a Reddit and make this sub a place where it’s nearly impossible to post something.
I think all of the current rules' benefits greatly outweigh the (not extremely restrictive) burden they put on the poster:
- Rule 0 is there exclusively to protect posters.
- Rule 1 just says that /c/leopardsatemyface should be "leopards ate my face". This community would rapidly lose any meaning without it and become a generic "Trump bad [he is]" community; there are still posts that are like "Trump did something bad" or "large cats literally mauled a person" despite it being the first actual rule.
- Rule 2 is more like Rule 1.5, saying that the onus is on you to show that you've met Rule 1. This one isn't often enforced and exists so readers and I don't have to meticulously research why this is relevant (or, for me, get appeals claiming some convoluted ad hoc chain of logic for why a post actually does fit Rule 1).
- Rule 3 is rarely enforced – only for the worst sources. There are a million other garbage dumps for the Daily Mail or no-name, fly-by-night LLM news mills.
- Rule 4 exists for equitability for visually disabled users, who can report posts so I can then ask the OP to add it to the one reported (instead of removing it) and any posts going forward.
- Rule 5 exists so that multiple posts of the same article don't clog up the front page (this has happened, and I removed them without realizing there was no rule against it). LAMF is predisposed to it because it's popular for crossposts. The part about "no top 100" is there to prevent users from lazily recycling what they know works (there's almost no chance in hell they aren't doing this if they aren't breaking the "within 1 year" part). This is the rule most likely to blindside users, but reposts are a cancer for a community.
- Rule 6 exists solely to make it easier for people to post, because they know for sure that non-US and non-contemporary content is allowed.
- Rule 7 exists so I don't have to duplicate basic things like bigotry, misinformation, etc.
(Didn't downvote you btw)
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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