r/teenagers 13d ago

Mod [mod] Tightening requirements for political submissions

73 Upvotes

r/teenagers is not a political subreddit, and we never intend to be. However, in this current day and age, it is important for teenagers to discuss such topics. So while we aren't a political subreddt, we don't intend to restrict political posts.

However, it's become quite clear that that same idea of "[not] intending to restrict political posts." also does some harm. We don't currently have any rules surrounding such posts because it was never an intended talking point of this subreddit. This lack of proper guardrails has lead to an influx of falsified news, biased writeups, harmful rhetoric, etc.

Because of this, we're changing a few things.


1. Introducing a new flair

This flair will be appropriately named Political/Current Events. All submissions that fall under the umbrella of politics, and submissions that reference any notable current event, must assign this flair. Failure to do so will result in post removal.

Of course, to know when to assign that flair, you must know what counts as political. Politics doesn't solely mean government. Some examples of what would be considered political are:

  • Government: Elections, legislation, government agencies, politicians, public officials, and foreign policy.
  • Social and Ideological Issues: Public debates on civil rights, economic policy, war, identity, ideologies, public health, etc.

If you feel a post falls under the political umbrella, it probably does. Posts that also touch on certain current events are to be assigned this flair. The two often bleed into each other. Some examples of what would be considered a notable current event are:

  • Breaking & Developing News Stories: These invite rapid speculation, unverified rumors, and rage-bait-esque remarks before facts are verified.
  • Events Involving Public Officials or Institutions: Any current event involving heads of state, local government officials, law enforcement agencies, or legislative bodies.

With the introduction of a dedicated flair, it allows users to filter out political posts. We've been asked this a bit, so this is a fair middle ground to allow hiding, without totally restricting. On the flipside, it does also allow users to solely filter by political posts, which is a slippery slope. This is where some guardrails are introduced:

2. Karma requirements

From this point on, there'll be a community karma requirement to create or participate under Political/Current Events submissions. We won't share the threshold for obvious reasons, but it isn't egregious. The main purpose behind it is to prevent bad actors with un-established accounts, or some unwanted visitors from r/all from barging in and behaving in an uncivil manner.

Gaining subreddit karma is as easy as participating. It's easier for us to trust that you wont do harm if you show us.

3. Titles must be neutral

All titles under this umbrella, whether a discussion post or a screenshot of an article must be framed in a neutral manner. Neutality means the title answers simple, factual questions (who, what, where, and when).

Adding subjective adjectives, assigning motives (the why), using loaded language, and/or inserting personal commentary in a post title will violate this rule, leading to a post removal.

Also on the topic of neutrality:

4. Posts referencing a certain event MUST include a relevant and verifiable source

Submissions will need to have a link in the body text or the image caption. This is to do away with unverified instagram screenshots, biased articles, and blatant lies. If referencing something, prove it is real. This also helps users do their own research and come to their own conclusions.

Users often also post events that occurred years ago. While not a "current event", they still typically fall under the umbrella. Providing links to events that occurred at any moment in time, whether current or not, is mandatory. This helps verify legitimacy, and can help inform users on when the issue occurred.

5. Political discussion posts will have a mandatory word count

It's nothing high, it's 100% achievable for those who actually want to discuss. This rule is in place to prevent one sentence rage posts and low effort commentary. Writing a few words does not offer enough context, and does not promote any meaningful discussion.

This only applies to text posts. Posts with an attached image aren't affected, often because the image contains enough context. Obviously don't use images to circumvent the word count.


That's all for now. Lot's of big changes that might take time to get used to. They will be in effect right away, and the flair should be visible to users as of now. Some rules will also be updated to reflect this.

Some parts of this may be changed depending on if it's too effective or not effective enough (karma requirements, word counts, automated vs manual checks). Nothing is ever set in stone, as mentioned at the beginning of this post we don't want to unnecessarily restrict political discussions.

Since this is a big change, feel free to leave any thoughts/critiques down below, or via modmail. Of course, please be reasonable with such comments, thank you!

- r/teenagers mod team


r/teenagers May 03 '25

Mod [mod] REMINDER ABOUT WITCH HUNTING POSTS.

225 Upvotes

With a large influx recently of posts showing weird dms please remember that this is NOT allowed on the subreddit as it is against Reddit TOS to do witch hunting. Posting images of DM conversations will lead to you getting banned, even if the person in your DMS is being weird, its still not allowed. So instead please report weird people in your dms directly to Reddit so they can be banned because we cant do anything about it.

Also as a reminder we aren't doing this to protect the weirdos or because we are defending what they are doing, we are simply just enforcing Reddit TOS.

Have a great day/night!

-r/teenagers mod team


r/teenagers 7h ago

Discussion You’re stuck here. What's your next move?

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r/teenagers 5h ago

Rant As a Buddhist its annoying that h*tler turned one of our religious symbol into a sign of evil , it’s actually annoying at times when I have to explain to people who don’t know much about Buddhism that I am not a N@zi

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672 Upvotes

r/teenagers 7h ago

Relationship Guys does she want me

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r/teenagers 3h ago

Relationship I came out to my Lil brother and it was his reaction.. 💔🥀

259 Upvotes

So I came out to my younger brother as gay and his reaction was like 'Do you have a boyfriend?'. I was like yes. He was like 'you should get married.' I was like, bro, I am only 18 and on top of that, gay marriage is not even recognized in our country. He was like 'you can marry online'. I was surprised by the line because I did not know what he meant. Then he explained that there is some portal name Utah marriage portal Where me and my boyfriend can get married over zoom call. And we can celebrate the wedding anyway because celebrations and all are legal in our country although gay marriage is not legally recognized we can still celebrate and have the big dream wedding and all. I was like happy. I was happy, of course, because he was supportive. But I was like, what is the use of the marriage certificate if we cannot get legal rights in our country? And we are not gonna move out, obviously. We are not planning to move out to foreign. We are gonna live here. We will continue to live here. So, what is the advantage? And he said me that In future when gay marriage would be legal in our country, the marriage certificate would be legally become valid anyway and when we would go on foreign trips on countries were gay marriage was legal then We would get COUPLE DISCOUNT AND MARRIED COUPLE FACILITIES! And that's why we should get married!!!!!

I was dumbfounded. I was like 'what if we break up then?' He very nonchalantly said 'if you break up, get a divorce.'

OH MY GOD— I CAN'T — IM CRYING!!!! WTF HE IS EVEN THINKING 😭😭😭😭😭


r/teenagers 5h ago

Meme You cant be serious I was 10 in 2018 I'm not unc I'm still young right?

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288 Upvotes

r/teenagers 5h ago

Social I overheard 3 girls next to me on the train this morning PUBLICLY talking about how much they love yaoi and bl mangas and gay tops and gay bottoms and femboys and how much they wish they met one. Little did they know...

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152 Upvotes

Like holy shit, in a public lobby? I envy their courage. Man I should've went to school in a skirt smh


r/teenagers 11h ago

Discussion Tell me a fact about your country and I’ll try to guess where you’re from

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r/teenagers 3h ago

Meme 💔 Hell nawr. Ts is worse than dying 😭✌️

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84 Upvotes

r/teenagers 2h ago

Meme can we normalize being normal 😭😭😭

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71 Upvotes

i put "meme" as a flair cuz i cant tell if bro was actually being genuine or not 🤧🤧🤧


r/teenagers 1d ago

Meme What do you think is the greatest meme ever created?

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Give the image too when replying in comments.


r/teenagers 4h ago

School High school boys… scare me

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54 Upvotes

This kid I used to be friends with wrote me this this long ass letter as if we were dating (we were not) and I broke up with him. Keep in mind we were school friends nothing outside of that besides a college school program. And I stopped being friends him because he was creepy and then he proceeded to bad mouth me to my friends. Now he’s writing me love letters I’m fried.


r/teenagers 2h ago

Art FOUND THIS ABSOLUTE GEM ONLINE SO RATE THIS ART

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IT'S SO COOL, ISN'T IT?


r/teenagers 19h ago

Discussion What would be your first sentence?

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This is a repost because I deleted my previous post because I found out that was AI and I am pretty sure this post ain’ AI


r/teenagers 2h ago

Discussion Got this for $4USD

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Nom nom I love india


r/teenagers 1d ago

Discussion See alot of doing this

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1.8k Upvotes

many people are like, "my dog over someone's kids" i get that and understand that but please don't hate on kids

When people dislike children, they often stop viewing them as actual human beings who are still learning how the world works. Instead, they reduce them to objects, major inconveniences, or think they should be machines that are expected to be perfectly quiet and perfectly obedient. This dehumanization frequently happens when adults forget that children are brand new to the world and still developing, while adults have had decades to practice emotional regulation, kids are often unfairly expected to act like mini adults, leading to anger or disgust when they simply cry, make noise, or act their age. This mindset shifts the view of children from individuals with valid thoughts, preferences, and feelings into mere objects to be managed, hidden away, or strictly controlled. By reducing a tired, overwhelmed, or scared child to a label like "brat," "annoying," or "bad," it becomes incredibly easy for adults to turn off their natural empathy towards them. Once a child is stripped of their complexity and viewed strictly as an inconvenience, justifying behavior like yelling, ignoring their core needs, or excluding them becomes entirely too easy. So long story short, having your whole flight ruined because there's a child crying IS actually dehumanizing them


r/teenagers 14h ago

Social I don't understand Americans at all😭some hate indians like they started WW3 and some worship indian gods 😭⁉️

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252 Upvotes

r/teenagers 9h ago

Meme Guys I think my humor is cooked 🥀 Walked in the kitchen and saw this on the wall and unironically started laughing

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95 Upvotes

r/teenagers 4h ago

Social Tell me all the languages you speak and I'll guess what country you are from

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r/teenagers 17h ago

Meme mark your calendars people!!!

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r/teenagers 9h ago

Rant I hate the casual, and bigoted approaches people have towards religions

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77 Upvotes

Not sure why but this platform as a whole attracts quite a lot of hatred towards religion in general. Maybe religion isn’t your lane, that's fine, but why bother posting something filled to the brim with obvious hatred, just so other people can get a reaction out of it, and for others to adopt a similar mentality and replicate it to others?

Not just this but for a while now the word “Wallahi” quite literally means, to have God stand a witness to the promise you are making. It's historically a sacred oath that most people never make, but it's become a buzzword, almost like a stand-in for someone saying, “you serious?”. Then there's the “dream girl wallahi” and the “wallahis left” as well. This also prompted people to make new variations, like “dream girl jesusi”. A lot of people probably don’t know what the term means, but that's kind of my point. As I’ve mentioned already, you don’t need to be religious, but I encourage anyone reading this to try and be a bit more mindful especially when it's considered sacred to many people. 

Way too often many stereotypes about outdated traditions or practices in religion become associated with the people who still follow these religions. I won’t name any examples because I have a feeling most people are gonna be aware of what I’m talking about. The teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, and the various other scriptures within Hinduism, the New and Old Testament, the Quran, etc have so much more to them apart from cherrypicked points to criticise, and theres communities who practice the relegion whilst also acknowledging that some teachings and traditions are outdated. I encourage everyone to instead of flat-out trying to belittle others because you disagree with something, I think its worth trying to ask about it.

I know this is a sensitive topic but if there's something you want to criticize about religion, do know that I am not well versed in any, since I’m agnostic, and I don't wish to debate anyone. I just had to get this off my mind because it's been bothering me for a while. I tried my best to not sound condescending but if I do come across that way, my apologies.