Election's over, time to update your filters to keep your /r/Pics viewing experience politics-free
For nearly a year now, /r/pics has been flairing posts relating to the US election Election 2016 to allow users to customize their experience, and filter out content they don't wish to see.The Election 2016 flair will now be changing to US PoliticsPlease update your filters if you wish to continue to customize your /r/pics post selection.xx.reddit.com/r/pics is the subdomain for /r/pics without US PoliticsHow to FilterEven now, the modteam is frequently reminded that many people don't know how easy it is to filter out content that doesn't interest them, here's a handy guide to keeping your front page clean and interesting. As mentioned above, if you don't need a permanant filter, you can instead use xx.reddit.com/r/pics for an automatically filtered version.Filtering (Reddit Gold Method)One of the few remaining gold features is the ability to select custom subreddit themes. For any page that doesn't have CSS including userpages, the front page, /r/all, multireddits, et c, this will default the look and feel of the page to whichever you select. To set this filtering up, head to your Preferences page, scroll to the bottom, and set your custom theme to that of /r/picsminuspolitics (Should look like this. That subreddit has just two lines of CSS, and will leave your reddit experience vanilla excepting for the removal of things that are flaired US Politics, anywhere that CSS styles are used, including on mobile for those using Request Desktop in a mobile browser.Filtering without GoldDesktopIf you're on desktop, you'll want to install the Reddit Enhancement Suite from /r/Enhancement, for Chrome, Firefox or Safari.If, in the past, you've decided that RES just isn't for you, you can go here after installing, and select "Clean Slate" to disable every RES module, allowing you to enable only post filtering without otherwise altering your reddit experience.To set up your filter, head to the filter settings, (here), scroll down to Flair, and add a filter. Your rules should look like this. That's it! If you're on a PC, you're done, go enjoy reddit.MobileThe process differs from app to app, but the general steps are the same, head into your menu, go to settings, filters/content, and add a filter. Here is what this looks like in the Android app RedditIsFun. Feel free to use the comments below to find redditors who share your choice of mobile app to figure out how it works on each.Why the filterAs long as there's been /r/pics and /r/politics, people have been reporting posts to let us know that /r/politics is leaking. We know. Some people seem to feel passionately about politics for whatever reason. /r/pics has never and will never have a rule categorically banning political posts for the simple reason that they've got nowhere else to go that is actually seen by a wide audience. /r/politics, for those who don't visit very often, doesn't allow image submissions, only video or news article links.As such, banning political content from /r/pics would essentially be to banish political pictures from the front page. Does this describe your dream world? Great, go set up the filter. The option is there so you can curate what you like without cries of censorship.The rules of /r/picsThey're in the sidebar. Seriously. They're worded a little differently depending on if you look at the sidebar, /r/pics/about/rules or removal reasons in mod comments, but there are no secret mod-only rules. If you ever suspect a post has been removed that was not in violation of an actual rule, please do not hesitate to send us a modmail. Seriously, we're not scary people and we genuinely care. /r/pics gets more submissions in 5 minutes than we get modmails on an average day.I mention this because of the ongoing (eternal) complaint that "x only made the front page because of the y bias of the mods". We do not and will not remove any post on grounds of personal bias. Again, reach out to us, we'd be happy to explain things. Shoutout to /r/undelete for a nice archive of removed front page posts.Please bear with us, it may take a day or so to get all the flair switched over. We will not be retroactively changing the flair of posts made before this announcement over to the new flairPS: You can also do this for other types of potentially unwanted content- we also flair posts that need a title in order to be interesting as backstory, as well as tagging progress and picture of text posts. Filter away!Edit: We will be removing stock photos, frequent reposts, memes, and other low effort political content at our discretion.
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