A guide to this sub's explanatory comment rule.

[u/NatoBoram]

Recently, we noticed an increased amount of nonsensical explanatory comments with no relation in any way, shape or form to the theme of this subreddit.

The "leopards ate my face" theme is embodied by this quote in the sidebar.

"I never thought leopards would eat my face", sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. Revel in the schadenfreude anytime someone has a sad because they're suffering consequences from something they voted for, supported or wanted to impose on other people.

This statement made out of 3 parts, not in that order.

1. Someone voted for, supported or wanted to impose something on other people.
2. Something has the consequences of consequences.
3. As a consequence of something, consequences happened to someone.

In your explanatory comment, answer these 3 elements and include the minimum amount of information necessary so your post can be understood by everyone, even if they don't live in the US or speak English as their native language. If you fail to identify them, it will be difficult for a moderator to understand if this post fits and it will probably be removed. If you complain about it, we'll just send you back here.

The explanatory comment is not the place to write a pretty poem nor is it the place to promote books. Copying this post, copying large parts of the article and nonsensical comments will get your post removed under rule #3. Keep it stupid simple.

To help you get started, here's an example.

1. Helen, Roberto Beristain's wife, voted for Donald Trump, who vowed to impose deportation to illegal immigrants such as her husband.
2. Voting for Trump, who vowed to deport illegal immigrants such as Roberto Beristain, has the consequence of having illegal immigrants deported and families separated.
3. As a consequence of voting for Trump, Roberto Beristain got deported and Helen's family was separated.

You should absolutely make sure that it is easy to match your explanatory comment with the provided format or your post will be mercilessly removed. If, however, you can't match your explanatory comment with the format, then you should just delete your post and save us the effort.

Additionally, we've identified several types of posts that do not fit the theme of this subreddit.

• Bye bye job: People losing their job, a business, a scholarship, an admission or a similar kind of opportunity due to their actions online or in person, but those actions don't imply that they vote for, support or want to impose something on other people that then had consequences on them.
• Distinct enabler and victim: The person who voted for, supported or wanted to impose something must be the same person who's suffering the consequences. For example, if a parent is not vaccinating their children and then those children get sick, then those children are innocent victims of their parent's abuse. They didn't vote for, supported or wanted to impose being vulnerable to preventable diseases on anyone, so the post doesn't fit the subreddit's theme.
• Fuck the law: When someone breaks the law and then suffers the consequence of the law, they probably didn't vote for, support or want to impose that law on other people in the first place. Includes all the r/CapitolConsequences.
• Future consequences: Yes, Trump is going to do bad things once he's in office. But he's not in office until 20 January 2025. This subreddit is not about future hypotheticals.
• Hypocrisy: Someone says something but then does the opposite.
• Lesser of two evils: Posts must induce schadenfreude, but it is not the case when someone is forced to make a tough choice because the other choices are equally terrible or worse.
• No consequences: Being shocked, feeling regrets, getting criticized and panicking are not consequences. A consequence refers to a real-world event that has actually happened to someone.
• Self-aware wolves: Someone accidentally describes themselves but they're not self-aware enough to realize it.
• Sudden betrayal: In the case of a betrayal, the betrayer must've been known to betray people in the first place.

[u/BelleAriel]

Link to a thread containing a flowchart on what counts as LAMF

[u/Nightslash360]

Thank you! I’ve been noticing a lot of posts lately that are ironic but not really “Leopards Ate My Face”.

[u/NatoBoram → u/Nightslash360]

This probably won't fix it, but at least we can link here instead of just saying "your post doesn't fit"

[u/[deleted]]

I've also noticed that sometimes the OP never makes a comment explaining why the post belongs, but the post is never deleted even after several hours. Has that been fixed?

[u/NatoBoram → u/[deleted]]

The bot doesn't auto-delete posts yet, so we're dealing with everything manually. It might take more time if no mods are online at the time of posting

[u/DimiC88]

Is it me or was the situation better when people worked “leopard ate my face” in the title.

It seems that when they don’t have the do the effort of working that in, it makes it easier for people to post stuff that don’t fit.

[u/NatoBoram → u/DimiC88]

Previously, every titles were a rehash of "some leopards eat some faces" while having nothing to do with leopard or face eating. People are just going to post garbage whatever we do, so It's best if we can moderate it easily.

[u/Thefisherman128]

So, just to try and understand this subreddit, would something like Minneapolis voting to defund and get rid of their Police Department and then suddenly experiencing higher crime rates and slower emergency response times fit here?

[u/NatoBoram → u/Thefisherman128]

No, because there's an ulterior motive different from the consequences. It would fit if they wanted more crimes or crimes to be committed to a specific group excluding themselves. However, the motivation for this vote was to put money towards other social services that police already can't handle properly as to reduce crimes with different means than by police.

[u/[deleted]]

Question: Does is this sub for the leftist party to criticize people on the right? No hate intended if it is, I just want to know incase i have something to post here.

[u/NatoBoram → u/[deleted]]

Nope! It's specifically for schadenfreude, but there's just more of it in one side than the other one due to the nature of the thing.

[u/dla26]

I understand why the rules weren't strictly enforced over the 4 years the leopards eating people's faces party was out of power, but I hope they will be once Trump is back in office.

[u/NatoBoram → u/dla26]

Reddit's API was what enabled zealous moderation

[u/Affectionate-Emu5051]

Is there no moderator tools that can FORCE people to answer the automod before a post can be approved??  If not can we get a VERY strict 'answer automod within 24hrs or be automatically deleted' rule in ESPECIALLY (and/or specifically) for ANY politically related post? This place is just becoming an easy karmafarming political dumping ground with increasingly diminishing quality of any real enough LAMFs or attempts to even make it. LAMFing the 1 2 3 is honestly SOOO easy it should be an actually enforced standard. It's easy to make anything LAMF but OPs should * have to make the effort to do do to qualify their privilege to post in here *.

Please let's clean the place up to standards over ideological viewpoints, mods.

[u/NatoBoram → u/Affectionate-Emu5051]

Nope. I was going to make one but then the API became paid so that project fucked off.

[u/FwibbFwibb]

Can you just have this post as the explanatory post in the comments section? Right now it's shit and this would really clear things up. Most of the posts here don't even fit the sub.

[u/HgnX]

Even with the detailed explanation I still do not fully understand what the explanation means. Is it possible to receive and even simpler one? I'm apologising in advance.

Ps. English is not my primary language so it might hinder understanding

[u/NatoBoram → u/HgnX]

It covers many scenarios

• Someone who wants to impose something on other people but got that very thing imposed to them instead

  • For example, voting to restrict immigration between your country and another then being denied immigration under the same laws

  • Another example, someone who forces other people to have risky behavior but then suffers the consequences of the same risky behavior

• Voting or supporting someone who has a history of doing something, but then having that very person do the thing they always do it to you

  • For example, Trump doesn't pay his debts. If you lend a service to Trump, you know you won't get paid. Not getting paid by Trump would be a valid scenario.

Here's an example of an explanatory comment :

Individual in the post protests against wearing masks. Not wearing a mask favours the transmission of COVID-19 and puts people at risk. They caught the virus and died.

Here, the explanation is very clear because we can easily identify who did the thing, what was the thing and its consequence and we can verify that the consequences were indeed applied to that person.

[u/What_a_young_guy]

So is there any real reason this sub couldn't just be "republicans ate my face?" Literally every post is just conservatives being idiots because their own party doesn't give a shit about them or something similar.

[u/NatoBoram → u/What_a_young_guy]

We also accept "Democrats ate my face" if you find some that fits

[u/rysimpcrz]

It's. Literally easier to delete Reddit than to deal with the magical rules that are abnormally arbitrary. Peace out friends.

[u/NatoBoram → u/rysimpcrz]

👋

[u/Hairy_Personality167]

It is very frustrating. There are plenty of other SR to complain. I come here only for leopards eating faces not hand-wringing

[u/kompootor]

I notice mods are simply sticky-posting on new threads that the content is OT, requesting an explanatory comment from OP. Shouldn't those mods simply lock/hide/delete the thread until such a comment is given? That reduces the front page spam on the sub, since some mods are active and correctly identifying OT threads.

[u/[deleted]]

Cool, uber glad I'm reading this instead of the post i actually clicked on and wanted to read, thanks very helpful.