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I know I've done it too, but at this point, imgur is becoming 95% politics. I want to get away from that sometimes. We all do. Please tag your post
THIS IS NOT POLITICAL SO I WILL NOT TAG IT AS SUCH.
Edit: If you forgot how to tag, you can do it both before and after you submit a post. Just click on "add tag" and type in your tag.
Edit 2: Some of you are acting like Trump supporters. Instead of doing good for the community, you would rather do good for your ego
I'm not trying to silence you. It would just be nice to not see stressful shit every. Single. Day.
Yeah, some days I don't mind reading politics, but other days, I want to not see orange turd doing something that embarrasses the rest of us
Zuegma197777
Some political posts get tagged with obviously wrong tags. Fookin annoying.
cAPTNcAPSLOCK
I've been agressively filtering out everything remotely political as I prefer to get my political info from reliable news and not some social media bubble factory. And still half of the posts are something political. And many of those some hot takes by people who really should be shutting up.
pintDMG
This comments section is a treasure trove of deranged morons to mute.
Xenarion
Forcing people to view their political posts will not help, it will just drive them away from Imgur overall.
mackaljackranger
Agreed for the love of god tag your shit, I get the US is a political shitshow at the moment, I just want some peace for once.
TJWilco
The people who make political posts and refuse to tag them share the same energy as the people they are posting about. They think that their judgement should supersede your own. As we've seen from the right there is no point arguing with people like that. You should just block/mute these users.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Here's the truth and reality of the anti-tag crowd:
It's done to push back against the rising tide of trumpists migrating to Imgur.
It isn't actually done out of a desire to force political posts on you, it's done as a defense against the fascist nazi scum.
Chimerabyte
I’m the kind of person who has to avoid looking at the news and avoid social media for my mental health and it’s almost entirely politics in both cases as well as people constantly being gloomy about literally everything. I don’t understand how people can handle being constantly surrounded by that. I’m left myself, so I generally agree with the sentiment, but I’d rather not have my depression and anxiety kick into overdrive every time I want to see some cats being goofy.
CurtainDoggo
Same. I know what's happening overall, from reliable sources, but I limit my exposure a lot for my own sanity. Cause that wouldn't lead to anything good. I don't need to be spammed constantly with hot takes about [event] being the end of democracy or whatever. (Plus it's counterproductive because it just adds to the noise.). I just want a bit of silly stuff coming here.
Suomijuusto89
OdinYggd
The people posting it don't care. They want to be seen, and they want people to rage about what they are posting. Unless Imgur changes the rules to mandate the politics tag, all you can do is block the people doing it and/or report the posts for hate content or fake news as applicable.
smellsmiketeenspirit
It's not 95% politics, it's 95% people farming Internet points and gotcha shitpost, like /gallery/this-sort-of-thing-is-disgusting-should-not-be-tolerated-1XHwjDr
Janeator
Well at least that's tagged
Nirvashicus
Not to be "that guy" but I'm pretty sure porn sites like e621 have community tagging to prevent filter abuse.
myotteraccount
imgur should let people add tags. It **can** be made to work.
Aar0ns
Yep, let me tag all these "I'm a game dev" "I have an etsy shop" "I'm homeless" posts with #ad
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
It was done in the past. People abused them to comment on the post like "repost" and "horny 14 year olds", only with extra visibility. Imgur blocked these tags, then they would come up with a slightly diferent spelling, and so on until they gave up and removed the feature.
SnarfyMcSnarferson
It's all rage bait (and fakes points) at this point. If i wanted endless political rage posts, I'd go to facebook
OdinYggd
Lately Twitter of all things has been doing a better job of showing me what I want than Imgur does. I want to see a mix of funny, interesting, and anime tiddy. And for some reason a site run by awful people is able to give me that, while a site run by good people isn't?
gearsmith
MisterLemons
Martyn said yesterday that they're working on something to address the issue.
RoutemasterFlash
"Acting like Trump supporters" is exactly right. Some fuckhead here the other day posted some bullshit implying that anyone requesting that posts be tagged was a "Nazi."
Talk about cringe.
sesnut
apparently if you dont want their bullshit shoved down your throat all the time youre a fascist and you hate democracy
JusticePhrall
I think that at least a lot of younger people don't realize we're not supposed to hear about what our President is up to – Every. Single. Fucking. Day.
Janeator
No dude it's crucial that everyone (non-americans too) get annoyed on the daily, about a situation that little can be done about (well...)
Gingerwithsomesoul
I love these posts, all the circle jerk edglord political poster squirm out of the woodwork to let us know who to block.
ArgumentativeArguerJustBecause
Watch out if you say this people accuse you of being a fascist for not wanting to see political related media 24/7 amongst all the other things they've ever called me for wanting political posts tagged.
CaptainCaptObvious
Oh I could care less. Internet opinions are just opinions
tmphillips11
I doubt that half of the people saying it even know what fascism is.
Shaodyn
I used to come to Imgur to get away from all the political nonsense. Now this is one of my main sources of news. And I adjusted my settings to filter out politics. Please, please, PLEASE tag your posts.
Captainplanetmotherfucker
People think you're trying to silence them, simply because you want to see other posts on your feed? Is that what imgur is becoming? OP: Can we talk about something other than politics for 5 mintues? Half of imgur: "OH, NO, YOU FUCKING DIDN'T!!!
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Here's the truth and reality of the anti-tag crowd:
It's done to push back against the rising tide of trumpists migrating to Imgur.
It isn't actually done out of a desire to force political posts on you, it's done as a defense against the fascist nazi scum.
Janeator
Have literally never seen a pro-right wing (by US standards) post or comment here ever since the days when people liked musk.
zerogenix
How dare one ask that they add 0.5 seconds to reposting the same shit that has been posted 3 times in the last hour and just think of what they could do with all that time they saved, but lets be real here they are likely gonna use that time to bring up politics in a comment on a non political post.
zerogenix
Here is an idea imgurians, tag your submissions and shut the fuck up on non political posts. I get it trump sucks we fucking know, in other news the sky is blue and grass is green. Don't let him consume more of your time than need be, or go ahead and continue drinking poison and hoping it'll kill him somehow.
3Davideo
In addition to muting tags you don't want to see, you can mute individual posters that regularly post things you don't want to see. This is very useful since this doesn't rely on said posters having to properly tag their posts.
Personally, if I see a post that slipped past the tag system that I don't like and I look at their 8 or so most recent posts. If 7 or 8 of them are of stuff I don't want to see, I mute them. Works like a charm.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Muting users is worthless. I muted a spambot a while ago and still see their junk on the front page constantly.
3Davideo
Weird, it's worked fine for me.
Janeator
Maybe the site design? God knows the new one is horrendous, and in the old one I see muted users' comments all the time.
3Davideo
That's probably it. A lot of features, especially recent features, only function properly in the newer version. I, too, stubbornly stuck to the old one until I finally gave in in order to take advantage of the 500 character limit - the old one forces you to stick with the older 140 character limit.
Xenarion
Honestly I'm annoyed by this anti-tag crowd. I don't even block politics, I'm fine with seeing these posts, but I at least understand how other people don't want to be bombarded by Trump all the time. I'm glad for the political awareness, but I also understand the people who want to browse the funny and cute stuff like Imgur used to be.
EmailFail
I think my guess is folks are being a bit too demanding about using tags. These are users complaining at other users due to, at least in my opinion, a fundamental difference on how post makers and some post viewers value tags. Tags, as of right now, are completely optional and folks have that choice. I'm not sure folks like being told what to do by other users on a private image sharing site. Just my thoughts
MasterChristopher
It's also probably a good idea to not rely solely on Imgur itself as your source of news/current events. >_>
duhqueenmoki
I blocked politics on imgur once I started seeing BLATANTLY MISLEADING posts (mostly IG or TikTok videos or headlines from biased news sources). Imgur does that perfect echo-chamber thing of supporting half-truths that, on the surface, seem logical, but actually aren't always based in reality or facts
znuff
As an Eastern European, I care about the political climate, but on the other hand, there's literally nothing I can do. You can't change the mind of trumpists, and it's a waste of time to try to argue with them. They'll just drag you down to their level. I also agree that this brings more awareness to the issues, BUT when 9/10 posts are politics, it's making me use the website less and less.
znuff
But on the other hand, there's nothing that these posts here do. It's too late to "fix" this with social media posts. Trump don't care. MAGA don't care. The Supreme Court doesn't care.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Here's the truth and reality of the anti-tag crowd:
It's done to push back against the rising tide of trumpists migrating to Imgur.
It isn't actually done out of a desire to force political posts on you, it's done as a defense against the fascist nazi scum.
Flexiblewarmth
"Here's the truth" = A true self-righteous dickhead trying to convey their point as fact. Take your Americentric BS and stick it in your ear. FO.
Xenarion
That's both dumb and untrue. Not only would it not do anything about them, but the anti-taggers explicitly say it's against people who don't care about politics "putting their heads in the sand".
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
On the first point you're wrong, making a community space vocally antifascist tends to keep fascist out, and on the second point I'm happy to concede you may be right if you can show them saying that but as of right now I have a different understanding.
I know SOME people are shit about it, but the overall is the antifascist wall, was my impression.
Diyamin
It is baffling, I have a bunch of politic tags filtered, the politics filter on, and a TON of people blocked because all they do is post politics. Yet as I got on here today, I saw 5 posts in a row about this shit. I come here to escape real life, browse some funny stuff, but fuck this app.
whereismymind86
and people like YOU are the fucking problem here. 90 million fucking americans didn't vote, BECUASE YOU don't want to deal with it. If you'd spent an hour voting in november you wouldn't be seeing 4+ years of politics votes. You made your bed, now you lie in it.
Diyamin
Assuming I didn't vote huh? I'm a lesbian in the US right now, of course I fucking voted. I don't want this shit. Not every app needs to be about news and politics, I'm here for an escape, some hahas, not to doomscroll into a deep depression, I already face that shit in real life.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Besides assuming the person you're replying to is American -and- didn't vote, you think preaching to a like-minded audience is going to effect change.
Janeator
You're fucking stupid. Whether you vote or not has nothing to do with not wanting to be bombarded with politics 24/7. Or, not being american
JustLetMeInAlreadyFFS
What about me, I'm not from the usa, I don't give a shit about your politics. Yet you force it on me... I wonder if it's some kind of "colonialism"...
Blud4BludGod
Boss, this is a US based media site with predominately US users. While I sympathize with your desire to escape reality for a little while I think you gotta manage your expectations a bit if you're coming here. You don't go over to a friend's house a month after they had a miscarriage and ask why the mood is so fuckin' down.
PorterPickUp
Waaah, waaah, waaaah. You worship a different God than I do and are a heretic. That is what you sound like.
Flexiblewarmth
More than half of Imgur are not in USA you Americentric dickhead. I'm not. If your country is so crap why not just stop crying and move countries? I know what your stupid answer will be "I shouldn't have to". That is the logic we are dealing with here. Little babies crying about the outcome of their own election process. In denial. Like supporters of a sports team crying that 'we' lost because opposition cheated. No you lost because your team played poorly. Own it and play better next time.
GeneralRye
Not everybody on the internet is American. Idiots like you are why the world hates America.
Flexiblewarmth
"World Series" Baseball. Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Glormax
How could you know if they voted or not? Plus the electoral college means that a vote in a swing state decides the election, not ones in states that always vote the same way.
ElbowDeepInAllTheThings
Oh, look! A troll. New account, no posts, and nothing but negative comments on posts that don't promote political propaganda. Block it.
WindowStreetJournal
If it's about a fetish, like leather or latex kinky wear, and you feel the unvalidated need to share it here, please tag "fetish", and not like "fashion" or "shiny", because those are totally not helpful when it comes to filtering the posts.
TheWhiteBarry
Furries are the worst at this. You ask them to tag and get hit with -30 points and 14 replies yelling "iTs NoT FuRrY" like God damn we don't want to be party to your fetish and it's fucked up to try to force that on us.
RaytheForgetful
To be fair, not all pictures of fursonas/furries are sexual, but the ones that ARE sexual or fetishized SHOULD be tagged, I agree.
ongabonga
People not understanding the point of a tag are pathetic. Instead of making a site viable for many you just make it viable for yourself. You don't realize that others might want to stay here and that the absence of tags makes them leave eventually. It's emptying the village you idiots. Ironically being too good for a political tag is the same split as politics itself or wearing a mask. Fuck you.
nation543
Gee, maybe we should get different subsections of the site, where people can gather and post content exclusive to that theme. We could have entire communities dedicated to just that one idea! Then we could have each community moderated by a regular, common user. We could break down the imgur url to something like imgur.com/i/cats or something i/funny or i/politics.
Maybe imgur should just entirely upend what it's always been.
whereismymind86
I understand the point of the tag just fine. It's to let you look away from the horror you created by refusing to engage, by refusing to fucking vote in November because you just don't want to deal with politics. You don't get to hide from this now. Fuck tag filters, the collapse of the US into fascism isn't something you get to ignore.
pintDMG
Other countries than the US exist, you absolute garbage excuse for a human being. Go away.
DontGetitTwisted1
Fuck your not using tags. We've all seen it. A lot of us are LIVING it. No one is burying their head in the sand, we want a small break. You dont get to not use the site as intended then give the middle finger to the rest of us. Your "im going to force you to see what I want you to see" is a VERY republican thought process, by the way.
stillnotawake
Every other post is the exact same bullshit. We get it. America is a shit hole. You're not changing anyone's mind on Imgur of all places.
GeneralRye
Not everybody on the internet is American. Idiots like you are why the world hates America.
frizy1
Sorry for not voting in November as an Australian...
stillnotawake
Fascist! /s
Randomice
Can't help noticing the absence of tags on this post.
Wardonk3y
Most notably "political"..... The target audience.
ballsoutflyer
This one is considered an exception to the rule.
ExTechOp
Is meta-discussion about how to appropriately discuss some topic actually a part of that topic? How would people benefit from having this article tagged eg. "politics"?
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
"Tag your post with politics" is, 100%, political. Ignoring the death of the world is, yes, political. Siding with fascism by agreeing to do nothing against it is, 100%, political.
So yes, this post needed to be tagged unless @OP is just a salty whiny crybaby fucking nazi cunt.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Looks like I upset some whiny crybaby nazi cunts.
Good. Fuck you.
bamblebimble
Ah yes, by wanting to see more non political memes we are all ignoring the death of the world and siding with fascism. Go fuck yourself.
CaptainCaptObvious
Well, what do I tag it?
ElPietroLoco
Politics, Meta, Discussion, Tags
RickTheMarshallSelke
Politics, captain obvious.
StylesRockman
Politics
ColossalBalls
over exaggerating
ColossalBalls
95% means something different to you than me.
CaptainCaptObvious
That usersub.
CaptainCaptObvious
Have you SEEN the front page?
Jarjarthejedi
I literally just checked the front page and found 5 political posts in the top 50. With no tags blocked. What imgur are you guys viewing?
PickleForBreakfast
/a/6voK0GA 20 political posts vs 15 non political ones and one that is debatable on opening the app
fearghul
Going to let you in on a little thing, bitching about politics IS politics. Tag your own shit.
MarsIsAfire
No, this is the same argument as you must tolerate intolerance.
Gestalt7
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XANDERcylinderPANTS
But if he tags it politics it may not get to the people he is trying to say this to
fearghul
Imagine not reaching people that opted out of wanting to see a particular tag...but that you wanted to reach anyway so you dont use that tag....why, someone should make a post chastising such people!
tacojuggler
I feel like maybe the people posting politics might not have politics tag blocked but the world is a strange illogical place so who knows.
WellThatsOriginal
You can tell that it's out of hand by the fact that your post is getting positive reactions...lol. I gave up asking people to tag because I would get attacked like I was the enemy.
Volimar
Some people treat asking people to tag their posts as letting people bury their heads in the sand. But everyone needs a respite once in a while.
InTangier
Yeah, it's not necessarily a shift towards apathy. But folks need to rest to be able to put any kind of resistance. Reality will still be screaming outside Imgur anyway, not like folks can actually escape current events.
Janeator
Typical american behaviour tbh
SnarfyMcSnarferson
Yep, i gave up as well. I click on a user and see nothing but political orange turd posts, I'm blocking the user
Xenarion
Well the people who support this opinion rarely hang out in the comments of political posts.
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duhqueenmoki
Example please?
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pintDMG
Meanwhile, when I sort your comment history by worst, something is fishy. No one has literally *no* negative-voted comments. Bots?
duhqueenmoki
I looked pretty far back into their comments and don't see any praise for Trump, MAGA, or right-wing politics. I see some opinions that are different than the hive on imgur, but nothing right-wing. Maybe I need to scroll back further, but that seems so petty and stupid
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stillnotawake
Seriously. Apparently you're a fascist if you want a bit of a break from the madness.
ahorseelbowdeepinme
It was the same way with elon musk posts around here. Used to be speaking ill of him would get you dv to oblivion
WellThatsOriginal
I remember those days...lol
KaJuN
Ol' Musky
WellThatsOriginal
He don't like that! LMAO
cousteau
Yeah I'm somewhat pleased to see that there's a shift in that direction.
cousteau
(that said, I do hope this is not due to non-conforming users being shadow-banned or something like that, because that'd be just as bad if not worse…)
0Vapid
no fuck em, they should be banned
cousteau
If they do get banned, may the mods do so openly without hiding it, and not cowardly hiding behind a shadow-ban.
cousteau
Also, with "non-conforming" I didn't just mean the ones not using tags (which, to my understanding, is a dick move but not a bannable offense), but also the ones that merely state their disagreement. I definitely do NOT want to be in a site where mods can manipulate the appreciated point of view of people like that.
0Vapid
The way i think it should be in future is make tags mandatory to be able to post, if you using incorrect tags your post should be deleted/account receive a temp ban from posting (you can repost it later with correct tags).
People repeatedly breaking this rule should be permabanned. This way people can still post what they like, but people can easily choose what they do want to see and what they don't want to see on any topic
thedarklord187
By trying to force and categorize and control the flow of memes photos and posts you are the enemy quit trying to silence and control and you won't be the enemy
WellThatsOriginal
Remember this when you get depressed about something and that thing is blasted in your face all day long.
ArgumentativeArguerJustBecause
Your comment is the equivalent of saying somebody who was raped and has gone out of their way to not see anything relating to rape or sexual assault should be forced to watch violent cnc port because rape is bad. Fuck off.
ArgumentativeArguerJustBecause
And there you go being wrong but so confidently. If being wrong was a sport you'd be unstoppable.
CaptainCaptObvious
I'm not trying to silence you. It would just be nice to not see stressful shit every. Single. Day. Yeah, some days I don't mind reading politics, but other days, I want to not see orange turd doing something that embarrasses the rest of us
Feralkyn
For those who really don't understand this, I have family who are faced with this shit daily and have literally no way to unwind because everything is *saturated* with it. I'm talking literally affecting their health at this point.
Xenarion
No one's getting silence by a tag, bozo.
WellThatsOriginal
Bozo is the single greatest insult in the English language...lol. it's harmless but effective.
HUGHgReaction
Especially politics, I come here to escape, not to get more tense.
tortfeasor
You can mute individual users. Check their posts to see if they are political spammers, then mute them accordingly. It's not perfect, but it helps.
HUGHgReaction
I recently found that out and my mute list is huge already.
masteryoplait
Simple: Use random. You can’t visit Imgur in times of political turmoil and think folks will be paying only your grabass horseshit.
znuff
The first 4 years of Trump was a constant political turmoil. There's no escaping. The first month of his 2nd term is the same.
masteryoplait
Yeah but why not use RANDOM if you don’t want to deal with current events?
znuff
Random gives you literally random. From today, from last year, from 5 years ago...
masteryoplait
Yes, it’s awesome. Oh wait so you want current events but not politics?
ongabonga
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hereforthememes420
This. Reuters and the Guardian are great sources of unbiased news. This isn't a news site. It was originally an image sharing site. I also come here for the escape aspect. I get constantly downvoted to oblivion any time I ask someone to tag their post as political, because I have the filter turned on. Only works when those who post also apply tags. We aren't asking much. Half the time these political posts are screenshots from other social media sites & rarely have sources. That's not news.
williamshakesbeer
But I posted it from a random news site so it has to be real. Also They're totally posting for awareness and not at all just point whoring current events /S
yeahhedugit
dontrike
I don't understand people. "There's too much X" okay.....then don't look at it. I don't look at most of this website because I don't want to and don't bitch to others about making me see less of that stuff.
HoodedPhilosopher
Politics is the discussion about how we divvy up the power in the world. Government is a body of people that are given power by the discussion of politics. My argument is that your problem is with governmental posts not political ones.
ArgumentativeArguerJustBecause
This doesn't matter to the imgur hivemind they just assume they are the ones who are correct and tell you to use another site/app because you know. They say they care about others then their actions prove that statement wrong.
Ricobe9
From what I've seen it's just a few that don't care and say you have to use another site if you don't like it. Those comments might get upvotes briefly, but looking back later, those same comments are downvoted a lot
I get that some want the message spread about what's going on and that's fine, but it's also fine that people need a break from that stuff from time to time. We should respect that
ArgumentativeArguerJustBecause
Oh 100% my general stance is the tags are there for a reason so use them.
elbowdeepinagoose
This
Drishna
Theres been a few days where I turn on the randomized feature, i've found that helps if you wish to escape current events and just want to have a giggle
keyblader1985
Even random is still surprisingly saturated with Trump.
DrMoneybeard
I browsed on random for about a month after the inauguration just to stop seeing trump all the time. Even on random it's like 5-10% American politics. I'm not American. I don't want to see it every other post. I've turned off politics but it's still there.
trialrunner1520
How to press this randomizer button!?
Drishna
for desktop/web browser version theres a dropdown on the main page top right (default is popular), unsure where it is on mobile if thats what you use but it should exist somewhere
yeahhedugit
I don't want to hear about the people speaking up against Nazis. The Nazis won't come for me! I'm special!
ArgumentativeArguerJustBecause
I know in a heart beat the nazis would come for me. Keywords there are I KNOW so I don't need to see about how they're coming 24/7 sometimes I would like to take a break from the constant nazi warning media and look at cute animals and funny memes
RoutemasterFlash
How do you think Nazis are going to be stopped by people not using tags on Imgur?
WarKittyKat
Or "I just got back from dealing with the book-burners in our local government and I'd like to think about something than that these people think my very existence is a sex crime for 5 fucking minutes."
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
You're absolutely right. You are special.
yeahhedugit
Did I really need the sarcasm font?
MagicalScientist
Imgur is not a news site.
yeahhedugit
Kaleopolitus
Not everyone is an American. I know it can be a difficult concept to understand, but there ARE other countries and people out there. And their situations may or may not differ greatly.
Kaleopolitus
Gods, the replies are just as Americancentric.
masteryoplait
Don’t be condescending. The site’s majority of users can assume most are like them. It’s not American ethnocentrism.
yeahhedugit
And every other country is in danger. This isn't about America. This is about the entire freaking world. Anybody that denies that is probably on the Russian's side.