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Mod PostClarifying rule 10: No advertising. (this includes narrations) (self.tifu)

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No advertising of any kind on /r/tifu is allowed. This includes narrations, narration links will warrant immediate removal of the thread and may result in a ban.

If you receive a PM from anyone with a link to a narration, please send us a modmail with a screenshot. This is considered spam by our sub's policy.

If you see any posts or comments with links to spam of any kind, including narration links. Please hit the report button or send us a link to it in modmail.

Thank you for your understanding.

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[–]CasualMods 2 points3 points  (1 child)

test

[–]tizorres[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You will now be muted, please do not contact us anymore. Take a couple days to reevaluate your situation.

While you wait, here are a few things to freshen up on: our Subreddit Rules & our list of Common Fuck Ups

[–]handsome_vulpine 0 points1 point  (1 child)

No post or comment may promote an off-site project. Money, involvement, and size have no relevance to the application of this rule.

Does this include things like mentioning names of companies and/or products of theirs that I may or may not have used?

(Basically I'm asking if the anonymity rule over in r/talesfromretail is enforced here too.)

I have a TIFU story in mind that may be affected by this.

[–]s4hockey4[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, those are fine as long as you're not promoting anything

[–]The-Lying-Tree 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What about people pm-ing you a request to host your story on a different website, should you report those incidents as well?

[–]s4hockey4[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! Please do!

[–]kuronokeiyakusha 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What about "unintentional" advertising? Like if part of the story is "so now there's puke all over my [new shoes]" and they included a link to show what they were?

[–]s4hockey4[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I speak for myself here, if it's an image of the shoes, that's fine. If its an Amazon/Amazon referral/another shopping website link, then I'd remove it. However, other mods may think differently than I do

[–]AShadyCharacter 1 point2 points  (5 children)

What about rule 4? I quite regularly see NSFW posts in the middle of the week. In fact, right now there's one that was posted 1600 GMT on a Wednesday that's up. There's almost always one up on the first page, what's up with that?

[–]s4hockey4[M] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Please report those. We try our best, and those will appear less frequently as soon as we wrap up our mod apps and add new mods

[–]AJordan44 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I like the nsfw ones, I have no problem with them, why is it so taboo here?

[–]s4hockey4[M] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The issue is, that if we didn't have the weekend rule in effect, this sub would be FILLED with sexual post and nothing else. People love their fap material, and we try to avoid having this sub clogged up with post that are basically fap material. If you need fap material, however, I can point you in the general direction

[–]TreatmentForYourRash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please point me

[–]shotpun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait... is NSFW synonymous with 'sexual content and bodily discharge'? I'd imagine that the former is a more lenient definition than the latter. Which is technically banned?

[–]Animactus 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Could someone post their TIFU as a narration style if it's OC?

[–]s4hockey4[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, we're disallowing all narrations, even if its the OP narrating it. Here's why, as I stated above:

...the reason being that people can still profit from their own stories (youtube ads, ect). /r/TIFU is not an advertising medium, its a sub where people share their fuck up's, and we'd like to keep it that way

I hope I didn't come off as too harsh, but thats the jist of it. Any more Q's, or if I can expand, let me know!

[–]Brainiac_Outcast 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Where do the narrations go then - is there a sub for this? - and how do narrators notify OPs?

[–]s4hockey4[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

is there a sub for this?

Not officially, no. I don't know if someone's created one, however

and how do narrators notify OPs?

PM would be my guess. If you have a successful post, then you've probably disabled inbox replies, so and PM would come through easily

[–]Bluepass11 15 points16 points  (4 children)

You're not even allowing people to narrate their own stories?

What a joke

[–]s4hockey4[M] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

We are not, the reason being that people can still profit from their own stories (youtube ads, ect). /r/TIFU is not an advertising medium, its a sub where people share their fuck up's, and we'd like to keep it that way

I hope I didn't come off as too harsh, but thats the jist of it. Any more Q's, or if I can expand, let me know!

[–]13steinj 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Whatever happened to /r/tifunarrations? Wasn't that a thing?

[–]s4hockey4[M] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If it is, it's not affiliated with /r/TIFU

[–]13steinj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha. For some reason I'm recalling that a /r/tifu mod was a mod there, or reddit requested it or something at some point. But I guess I'm mistaken.

[–]Mr_HPpavilion 2 points3 points  (1 child)

what is a narration may i ask?

[–]ElectroBoof 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's two parent comments asking the same exact thing

[–]ztaffa 7 points8 points  (6 children)

Wait what exactly is a narration? Like I know what the word means but I'm asking for what it means in this context because I haven't seen it on r/TIFU mentioned anywhere besides here

[–]13steinj 3 points4 points  (5 children)

A person reads a TIFU story.

They read it aloud in their sensual voice.

They post it to youtube/soundcloud, and make a comment or somehow get the link in the original post.

They profit.

[–]ztaffa 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Ah I see. I don't see the problem with it but mods kno best I guess

[–]Xenjael 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I do, because the same story will get reposted again, and again, and then were stuck with it. I think the idea is for TIFU to be in writing.

What I don't get, is if you can't narrate your own work, what do you do if you have a recording as proof for your TIFU, or a photo, etc.

It would be fun to see some posts with those more often.

[–]shotpun 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Actually, the idea is that those people can make youtube/etc ad revenue off of that narration, which is essentially advertising.

[–]Xenjael 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Jeez, you mustve been bored to find this old post. Thanks for pointing that out though! That makes more sense.

[–]shotpun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't actually remember how I got here, but yeah, you're welcome

[–]Boehler 11 points12 points  (17 children)

What if you narrate your own story?

[–]tizorres[M] 6 points7 points  (16 children)

no

[–]g-g-g-g-ghost 26 points27 points  (11 children)

Least helpful mod answer ever, this needs clarification not the rule

Edit: mod not mid

[–]s4hockey4[M] 5 points6 points  (7 children)

Better late than never, right?

You can't narrate your own story. It's... well pointless, because people can read it, and it's also milking views for yourself. If I can clarify anything else, let me know!

[–]Jacob_Mango 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What if we narrate and upload it to one of those sites that basically force u not to make a profit?

[–]s4hockey4[M] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Such as? I'm not aware of such a site. And the other issue besides that is people narrating it for publicity to themselves

[–]Jacob_Mango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was talking in like some guy can make one.

[–]g-g-g-g-ghost 1 point2 points  (3 children)

But what if it's long and people(like myself) don't want to bother reading it

[–]DaMysteriousOne 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Got a point. Too tired and lazy to read a huge tifu.

[–]MrPlaidShirt54 3 points4 points  (1 child)

TL;DR's are what's supposed to help.

[–]DaMysteriousOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the juicy detail is left out.

[–]ElectroBoof 16 points17 points  (2 children)

Mods are a fucking joke on this sub
This isn't /r/4chan have some fucking professionalism

[–]The-Lying-Tree 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Don't be rude, they're just doing their job.

[–]ElectroBoof 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Half assedly

[–]Pkmn_Gold 10 points11 points  (3 children)

no what

[–]TemporaryDonut 2 points3 points  (2 children)

No

[–]RedditHG 3 points4 points  (1 child)

No what

[–]Dude4001 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No sir

[–]SSB4Decoder 29 points30 points  (0 children)

But they do hard work! They read an ENTIRE internet post written by someone else to make ad revenue.

[–]Quick_man 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Neat

[–]phishingboat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

boo u

[–]hmillos 27 points28 points  (6 children)

I feel so stupid but, what's a 'narration link' ?

[–][deleted] 24 points25 points  (5 children)

People like to read TIFU's aloud and think it's funny. It was, for the first 5 maybe. But it got old and spammy

[–]hmillos 11 points12 points  (4 children)

so they read it and upload it to youtube or something to get views?

[–]elfa82 22 points23 points  (3 children)

Exactly. It's considered spam by both us and the admins

[–]Ti-Cereal 11 points12 points  (2 children)

It should really only be posted if you're either a professional voice actor and it sounds exceptionally good, or you're Morgan Freeman (imo).

[–]FiveHundredMilesHigh 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Gilbert Gottfried pls

[–]vix9002 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes to that screechy loud voice Today I fucked up by tripping at chipotle!!

[–][deleted] 76 points77 points  (3 children)

Is it conseidered "advertising" if I only include a tagline to my post?

Brought to you by Subway: Eat Fresh®

[–]Twixes3D 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Made possible thanks to /r/TIFU: Probably Yes®

[–]Nailern 3 points4 points  (6 children)

Looks like my last comment was removed. Let me rephrase.

Is a certain user who was up until just recently shadow-banned for breaking this rule repeatedly back at it again by trying to circumvent the rules through PM?

[–]tiredbitch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man, that is some weird desperation...

[–]TIFU_mods[S] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Please don't 'call out' users by mentioning them.

We felt it was necessary to clarify this rule.

[–]Nailern 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Funny enough, just got a PM from a certain user asking to, ahem, "show support by posting the YouTube URL" in a certain TIFU update about a certain terminally ill patient.

Would this count as spam?

[–]TIFU_mods[S] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Yes and

If you receive a PM from anyone with a link to a narration, please send us a modmail with a screenshot.

[–]Nailern 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sent!