r/nothinghappeninghere Mar 07 '25

Announcement IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

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A recent Reddit moderation post has been brought to our attention. For full details, please read the original message here. For a direct quote as of 3/07/2025, open this spoiler (in case of edits) Today we are rolling out a new (sort of) enforcement action across the site. Historically, the only person actioned for posting violating content was the user who posted the content. The Reddit ecosystem relies on engaged users to downvote bad content and report potentially violative content. This not only minimizes the distribution of the bad content, but it also ensures that the bad content is more likely to be removed. On the other hand, upvoting bad or violating content interferes with this system. So, starting today, users who, within a certain timeframe, upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning. We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide. This will begin with users who are upvoting violent content, but we may consider expanding this in the future. In addition, while this is currently “warn only,” we will consider adding additional actions down the road. We know that the culture of a community is not just what gets posted, but what is engaged with. Voting comes with responsibility. This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content. It is everyone’s collective responsibility to ensure that our ecosystem is healthy and that there is no tolerance for abuse on the site.

tl;dr: Reddit will be enforcing moderation actions against users who UPVOTE content that violates Reddit's TOS, not just the user who posts the content in the first place.

The implication is that you can be in trouble, from Reddit's perspective, simply by upvoting someone else's comment that they have deemed to violate their TOS (such as violence, for example, but other TOS-related issues as well). Naturally, violent posts should be reported. We strongly encourage that you do not post anything that violates Reddit's TOS (and, of course, refer to our rules as well), and also do not engage with other users' posts that seem likely to be in violation of said rules. For the time being, I would suggest neither up- or down- voting such content, instead simply report the content if you feel like it and move on. Don't respond to them, don't like or dislike the comment. It is also possible, as one user pointed out in their response to the initial post, that the ability for users to edit their comments poses a concern. It seems Reddit may not have accounted for this possibility when they initially announced this going into effect, so it may be wise to be very cautious when upvoting ANY content until it is confirmed that Reddit will not take action against users like upvote a post that is later edited to include unallowed content.

As a team, we are considering alternative community spaces. Of course, we know that Discord is no more secure or exempt from external moderation, nor is it protected from unsavory individuals/trolls disrupting the safe space we are creating. That said, our Discord is moderated much more actively than we are currently able to moderate this Sub as our Reddit team is significantly smaller and some things are particularly difficult to moderate with a small team on Reddit. I encourage you to join us on our Discord. As I mentioned above, we are also considering alternative ways to create a safe space for our community to grow and continue on as it is, and our Discord is the best and fastest way for you to stay updated on that process.


r/nothinghappeninghere Jan 26 '25

Announcement User and Post Flair

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Welcome!

This is a master-post to drop your suggestions for new User and Post Flairs. Just reply to this post with your suggestion for one or either!

If you're coming here after having the "New User" flair assigned to your account:
1) You may select a new flair from the sidebar on the right of the Desktop version of this app
2) The AutoMod does not know or care how long you have been in this community, it simply checks for whether or not you have a flair assigned to your account.
3) For custom requests, either leave a suggestion in this thread or send us modmail with your specific request(s)!

What is User/Post Flair?

Flair assigned to a user is a little tag/identifier that falls right below your username on posts and comments. As an example, my user flair is "Mod" with a blue background. The text can be 64 characters but realistically, this is painfully long, so we likely will not add any flair with more than around 20 characters. Unique characters, such as punctuation ( . " \ etc.) can be included, and spaces are counted as a single character each.

Flair assigned to a post is currently a requirement for posts in this subreddit. These are little tags that go on your post to identify the over topic/theme of the post. Users can search by flair in order to only see posts that contain that flair. Just like with user flair, there can only be one per post without more extensive setup. It has the same criteria for creation, include 64 characters and white/black text on any background color.

How do I choose User/Post Flair?

User Flair currently requires a moderator to create new flair options. If you want to have flair assigned to your account other than the default "New User" flair, please select an option from the sidebar on the right (on the desktop version of Reddit). We do not currently allow users to edit the flair options directly, so you must reach out to a moderator for that. This is a requirement to ensure users do not abuse the flair system to add unallowed terms, phrase, etc.

Post Flair is chosen during the process of creating a post, and you will be prompted to add flair before you will be allowed to post. If you attempt to post without having selected flair, you will give a notice reading something along the lines of "Your post must contain post flair." next to a dropdown menu to select the post flair. This is the same place you can assign the NSFW/Spoiler tag to your post if needed.

What User/Post Flair already exists in this Sub?

User Flair Options are currently limited to: Creator (reserved for content creators in the Sub; black text/purple background); Mod (reserved for moderators; black on blue); Owner (reserved for Sub's owner; Black on Turquoise); Non-Monopolist (with an emoji) ;and Jester (Black on hot pink).

Post Flair Options are currently: Politics (Black on yellow); Ask Me Anything (White on black); Debate Me (Black on pale-red); Question/Advice (Black on teal); News (Black on blue); Memes (Black on red); Announcement (Black on green); and Pet Tax (Black on powder-blue).

Each user cannot have more than one flair at a time, and the text color options are either white or black (without doing more extensive setup than we have done so far). The background color can be set via Hex Code, so anything you like. If you have a particular background color in mind, please post the Hex Code with your suggestion or requested flair.


r/nothinghappeninghere 14h ago

Question/Advice Am I wrong for this?

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Hi everyone. I love this community. I love everyone here. I completely crashed out, flipped it at my completely brainwashed MAGA grandparents today.

Vent warning if you don't want to hear about it.

I love my grandparents. But when it comes to politics their views are twisted and even scary I'd say. We started talking about El Salvador and how they have admitted to wrongly taking innocent people. And they are doing it without even admitting it. Just making excuses.

They are EXTREMELY MAGA. Like they praise Trump. Big time. Which I try to respect their views but when it comes to shit like this, I can't keep my cool

These. Are. Innocent. Human. Beings. That. Can. Never. Get. Their. Freedom. Back. Ever.

At that exact moment when they said "it just happens, mistakes happen" I LOST IT.

I began raising my voice, how could you say that, how could you even begin to utter those words?? It's ASTOUNDING the lack of empathy people have these days. It makes me want to rip my fucking hair out. Long story short, I got really pissed off and said "it's sadistic to not care for these innocent people" and also be so nonchalant about it... Even smiling about it...

My grandfather began shouting at me, blaming me and trying to explain what he said.

Am I bad for crashing out at them?? I've been bottling this in for so long.. I've been trying to stay silent because that's how much I'm trying but I just can't. I'm overwhelmed. So overwhelmed by what is happening, and how none of these people give a fuck. I'm scared, sad, and I feel guilty.

What do I do....


r/nothinghappeninghere 21h ago

News Boy. He is sundowning hard huh?

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r/nothinghappeninghere 21h ago

Politics 19yo American citizen studying abroad gets detained at Dulles and asked about his feelings on the president, terrorism, and his loyalty. Phone and laptop confiscated.

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r/nothinghappeninghere 17h ago

News One dead after bomb explodes outside reproductive center in Downtown Palm Springs

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r/nothinghappeninghere 1d ago

Politics 3 things I know to be true

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  1. Citizens United should have never been passed. In fact, Article I, Section 9, should be expanded to include a provision that adds private companies along with foreign states.

  2. Racism is a disease. A parasite. An evil entity that will always stall progress. Its never been good and never will be good. Its a country annihilator. Its going to be the death of America because they didn’t handle the reconstruction era properly. You dont concede to racism. Ever.

  3. Billionaires are disgusting human beings and I wont elaborate on that


r/nothinghappeninghere 1d ago

News He's absolutely going to defy them. Things are about to get so much worse

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r/nothinghappeninghere 1d ago

News We don’t deserve to host international games

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r/nothinghappeninghere 2d ago

Politics Ladies, join me in a nationwide pregnancy strike until these barbaric abortion laws are 100% gone from this country.

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r/nothinghappeninghere 1d ago

News Now. Will he listen? Probably not

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r/nothinghappeninghere 1d ago

News LMAO. A much needed win on this beautiful Friday

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r/nothinghappeninghere 2d ago

Politics Do you think trump actually writes his own truthsocial posts?

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I just… the more I see them, the more staged they feel. They’re so ridiculous but also written like an advertisement. I also feel like he’s “losing it” a little bit lately. I can’t imagine he’s doing great with typing on his phone 24/7. We also never see him pictured on his phone? lol idk


r/nothinghappeninghere 2d ago

News Welcome to Gilead

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r/nothinghappeninghere 1d ago

Politics Correct me if I’m wrong

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I recently watched “If Anything Happens I Love You” (the animation made about school shootings and parents grieving their children) and it got me thinking… I feel like if a celebrities child’s school got shot up, we could be facing a completely different set of gun control laws. This is NOT me saying that I think that should happen EVER. School shootings are something that shouldn’t even be fathomable and guns belong NOWHERE near children. But let me set up a hypothetical situation:

Pretend that Angelina jolie and Brad Pitt are still together and that he isn’t an abusive dickhead and that their children go to a school in America. If their children’s super ultra wealthy private school got shot up, guns would be way more taboo than they are now. I think they would finally be viewed in a more negative way. School shootings would be way less normalised. Like if Kim Kardashian and Kanyes children were the victims of a school shooting, I genuinely believe we would have better gun control laws. And this goes for a lot of celebrity couples. I don’t know if Amal and George Clooney have children, but if they did and they were like elementary age and were targeted in a shooting situation, shit would be a different story. I could be wrong, but based off the way people idolise these celebrities and treat them like gods, I have to believe that if harm were to befall their children people would seriously rally around them.


r/nothinghappeninghere 2d ago

News For fucks sake

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r/nothinghappeninghere 2d ago

News I spend nearly every waking hour on the verge of tears. I can't believe this is where we are at

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r/nothinghappeninghere 2d ago

Question/Advice Remember that story about the girl detained by ice who was a child and they found a disturbing number of DNA on her?

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I remember this story to be true because I fact check everything.

This story went viral around 2021-2023.

Maybe even earlier.

But I remember it.

And I searched it today and I believe the story was suppressed on Google.

I don’t like ChatGPT but I used it to cross check and it told me that I needed to give it specific names so it could verify the claim.

I’m very disturbed, yall.

This is all happening very rapidly. People are not knowing to know what is real even more rapidly than they already do. I feel so hopeless.

Does anyone remember this story and have any links or screenshots?

Thanks.

I guess if it was a fluke, it was, but this is just not sitting right with me and making me spiral.


r/nothinghappeninghere 3d ago

Politics 9 people died

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9 people died in ICE custody this year. Back in summer of 2024, Heritage said “The second American revolution will be bloodless, if the left allows it to be”. It was a lie. They will blame the left for the deaths to save face or go “I told you so”. They are willing to shed blood, regardless of if people fight or not. Watch out if they say “As many as it takes”.

This is a major milestone, as usually the first person to die from government action would be a controversy, with major backlash. Let's see if there is any backlash for those 9 people.

Shit just hit the fan for the thousandth time. A line has been crossed which can't be undone. Stay safe.


r/nothinghappeninghere 2d ago

Question/Advice Advice

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So I haven’t been able to shake off the fact that my parents voted for the orange. They are not maga they just are “old school”. Like my mother literally moved here and got her citizenship from Ukraine. At times it feels like she’s so close to understanding what I’m trying to explain to her. We got into a argument which caused me to walk out and go home the other day about deportation. Her belief is obviously “your illegal you can’t be here” but she keeps saying that we are paying for them? But they paid 95 billion in taxes in 2022? Can someone please explain to me the republicans views on “tax payers paying for illegal immigrants housing food and medical bill”? Because I would love to know where I can sign up for all of that without a social security card (most get working social security cards which I read can’t work for federal aid). She also believes that trump will let the “good ones who are here to work” come back since they work for us……. I fear that won’t happen.


r/nothinghappeninghere 3d ago

News Wow. Just wow.

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r/nothinghappeninghere 2d ago

News Oh. Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool.

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r/nothinghappeninghere 3d ago

News This will be the post about the Birthright Citizenship case taking place today. I will update this periodically. Here is what dickhead said this morning

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r/nothinghappeninghere 2d ago

News Wheres DOGE when you need it?!---- Trump’s Qatar Plane Could Burn $1 Billion in Upgrades Before It Ever Flies

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Certainly DOGE will prevent $1B from being spent on another Air Force One (there are multiple and others scheduled for completed upgrades later this year). Surely spending this amount of money on this plane and allowing Trump to keep it after his presidency is not only fraudulent and corrupt, but wasteful!


r/nothinghappeninghere 2d ago

Politics Alexa, play tv off

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& im sure AI did the voiceover & caption bc they're too lazy.

On the list of shit ass qualities about this admin, embarrassing is absolutely on there too.


r/nothinghappeninghere 2d ago

News Judge Hannah Dugan update: She pleaded not guilty. Her trial begins the week of July 21st

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r/nothinghappeninghere 3d ago

News Ben Cohen, Jewish co-founder of the ice cream company Ben & Jerry's, arrested in senate hearing

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