Rules

Its getting old seeing the same story appear multiple times a day. Its the same story being repeated by different people. After the first few it just becomes generic. The story is always the same. I sent a dirty picture to a stranger online, now they want money OR they already sent money.

Im sure all the stories are genuine and true. But its literally always the same scenario, with the same comments.

Idk I just feel like there should be something original to a TIFU. Immagine if every person that didnt get the covid vaccine posted a TIFU by not getting vaccinated and now I have a cold. And it got posted 5x a day. All the stories were the same. Nothing unique. Didnt get vaxxed, now I have a cold. Wed all be sick and tired of hearing about it.

I feel like its the same with these sexting blackmail scams. "I knew people did this online, i sent pics because I was horny, now I am being blackmailed and believe these people will commit a felony and share my underage nudes to family members, what should I do?"

Lets ban these generic stories that lack substance. Not to mention there is usually 0 consequences, its just people freaking out over a bluff to scam them out of money. This subreddit is not to make people aware of basic scams and how to counter them. If it is, obviously the awareness isnt spreading. So lets just put up a blanket rule saying no one cares if you sent nudes to an online stranger from india pretending to be an american woman unless something unique happened. 9 out of 10 stories, nothing unique happened.

In getting like 5-10 new posts a day on TIFU. What gives?

tldrs on every other post are either witty summaries that try to be funny and amiguous, copy pastes of the nondescript title, or a common phrase that applies to their story (e.g. curiosity killed the cat) and don't actually do anything for someone who thinks the post is too long and didn't read. automating post deletion without tldrs is cool, but further screening would be cooler

Right now there are 9 sexual posts on Tifu frontpage. Each time i scroll through my frontpage, every post from tifu i see is "TIFU by *insert sexual thing here*" and it gets tiring.

TIFU is almost taken over by 13 year olds who make up their fantasy storys to rub one out.

They're not funny, they're not interesting, they're all exactly the same as the last. They're just boring and overdone at this point. If we can't have posts about defecating in your pants then I don't see why these should be allowed to be a thing either.

They're literally all carbon copies of the last. "TIFU by leaving sex toy in the open and mom saw it", "TIFU by leaving sex toy in the open and roommate saw it", like for the love of god can we just ban these posts already? They all go the same. Person buys sex toy. Person uses sex toy and leaves it in bathroom/cupboard/wardrobe or some other place they don't think people will go in but then they do, or gets caught using sex toy. Person gets very embarrassed and person who saw them gets shocked and angry/upset/laughs at the person. Person acts as if it is a shocker that someone knows they masturbate. Bonus points for originality if the people who saw it were conservative and/or religious family members or OP's parents.

They're immensely repetitive, predictable and unentertaining. The majority of them are just using the fact that oMg wAmEn oN rEdIt tHat MasTuRbeT 🤤 to harvest upvotes anyhow. I don't think it'd be a loss if these types of posts were added to the list of removable posts. It'd be nice to see something different on the sub for once.

TL;DR: "TIFU because someone saw/found my sex toy" posts are boring, blatant karma farms that don't add any substance to the sub (no pun intended). Considering how many other unoriginal things are removable, I personally think that this should be added to the list of them.

yeah, that sounds weird but, read it.

There seems to be a pretty serious trend of highly sexual TIFUs that are designed to promote OnlyFans accounts.

Would the TIFU mods and community be up for a bot that scans the account of anyone posting an NSFW story and flags it if it promotes an OnlyFans?

Today's top post is a link to a "Real life waifu, check out my OF!". Last week's erotica was even more blatant.

I mean... it was hard enough to believe a lot of the TIFUs before they had a financial incentive to make stuff up.

Some of the funniest TIFU posts I have ever read did involve bodily functions; I understand the reason for 4a, but I feel like it's just not very clear in the rules. Would it be possible to clarify that?

It's a fresh fuckup, barely a week old, but for some reason it keeps getting insta-removed when I post it. I've read the rules extensively and I don't seem to be breaking any of them. I've seen approved posts far worse than what I wanted to post which were blatantly breaking more than one rule, so what gives?

I love tifu posts, but almost exclusively enjoy 2y+ old posts because at the moment almost all posts are: tifu by having sexiest sex with sexy female. I think you get what I mean. I love the kind of posts like the one where the guy pretends to not know what potatoes are or when the other one threw a steak at a window by accident. I think the subreddit would get a lot more of thos quality kind of submissions if NSFW posts were only allowed on certain days.

Yesterday in ignorance of the rules, I posted a TIFU that was a retelling of an ancient Greek story.

Post https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/jt5083/tifu_by_showing_my_secret_path_to_some_persian/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Screenshots of the OG text https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1QOVaJR3fk66AjQuNuhdo-rYr2cDV52Nt

This is understandably not allowed in r/TIFU, and it makes sense that this policy exists.

However, before my post got removed, I got 20 awards and 200 upvotes in about 30 minutes. There are members of the r/TIFU community who love this kind of content and would love to see/make more of it.

This is why I want to create a new subreddit for FUs in history. Mods, how often do you see historical TIFUs? Is this something that could gain popularity? Is there any way that I can promote a potential sub of this nature in r/TIFU?

The amount of stories on the sub that are essentially "I tried to do a sex thing but it went wrong and then we laughed!" is insane. It just becomes very repetitive and boring, and it attracts a lot of people who are obviously just making up things to farm karma from horny Reddit users.

I'm sure there used to be a rule that these types of stories were limited to weekends only, but that appears to not be in the rules anymore.

If they were moved to a different sub then this would sort out the problem. I do imagine r/TIFU would lose a fair few subs, but surely a quality subreddit with fewer subs is better than a rehash of r/nsfwstories.

Most stories didn't even happen "today", most of them start by "I remember years/months/weeks/days ago...". Wouldn't "IFU or I Fucked Up" just be more appropriate for most stories?

It honestly feels like 1 out of every 5 posts showing up on new are just another TIFU of someone getting caught Masturbating. Or blowing their load on their partner right as a parent walks in.

It just gets really tiring. Reading the same thing over and over.

Could we have a dedicated day for these posts? I suggest "I got caught Masturbating Mondays".

The sub feels oversaturated with these stories at this point.

Edit: maybe "Wanked it Wednesdays"?

People making up sexual stories because its easy karma is actually slowly destroying the sub.
I think that if a separate sub was created for all sexual TIFUs it would drastically cut back on fake stories.

wow imagine a world where the front page isn’t full of TIFU posts breaking almost every rule.

I hate it when people just make a shitty pun in the tldr. Which you won't even get without reading the whole damn thing, so what's the point?

Such as myself, who posted the first post on the sub, was all polite and such (https://i.imgur.com/eeS9zun.jpg) and was banned permanently with no reason given, and others were banned for 72hrs for asking about why I was banned.

And for a quality control suggestion, I made one on my post: NSFW day instead of cluttering the site with only poorly written NSFW fanfiction, make a day for it and allow it that day.

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That is all.

i noticed a tiktok username recurring in multiple posts all by different accounts. i really doubt any of them are true, they all seem like elaborate self promotion since they end with something like "i will do an update later on [username here]". a lot of these posts get massive amounts of likes and it seems wrong for someone to basically game the system.

https://www.google.com/search?q=reddit+%22michael_city%22&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS721US721&oq=reddit+%22michael_city%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64l3.1248j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 this is a google search that shows the posts, theres three whole google search pages worth.

Hello, TIFU folks.

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Unless I am mistaken, there is nothing in the rules on the sidebar of the sub that state that I story must be true. I understand that this would be practically impossible to enforce in most cases, but I may at very least deter some people from using the sub as an outlet for their strange creative writing projects/ karma farming.

Perhaps posts which have been proven to be fictitious, or posts which the OP has admitted to being fabricated, can be removed, locked, flaired, or have some indication that they are fictitious and have broken the rules of the sub. Something like this could maybe work in tandem with u/deathfaith's suggestion as well.

I hope something can be done to keep this sub interesting and fun, and to quell the obvious attention seeking and karma farming, and a small addition to the rules seems like a simple, easy, and lightweight way to work towards those goals.

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Thanks for your consideration.

In the last month there has been an absolute explosion of stories about people getting chili pepper oil on their genitals. These stories are invariably incredibly similar, uninteresting, and not going away. I implore the mods to consider applying Rule 2A (governing uninspired content) to any examples of these posts that don't add some kind of new twist to the concept; they contribute nothing original to the sub.

Similar to the /r/dankmemes Dank bot, can we get a bot post stickied at the top of every thread where people vote if they do or don't believe the story? If karma goes into the negative after x period of time, the post is removed. I'm tired of seeing the obviously fake top posts. Hell, most of them admit they're lies when called out.

These people don't deserve karma for their writing skills and elaborate story telling. There's plenty of really good posts that don't get out of New.

I didn't know what TIFU meant and just saw it on my reddit navigation bar, and after clicking into the subreddit, I was looking for what TIFU means - and apparently it's not in the side bar nor in the wiki. I ended up inferring that it's "Today I f**ked up" from the rule explanation.

Actually, are you assuming anyone that ended up here knew what TIFU means? I would recommend a simple, explicit explanation somewhere in the wiki or sidebar ("TIFU means Today I F**ked Up").

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ps. I just noticed the <title> of the page was "Today I Fucked Up". Urgh, but it's not a easy-to-notice place, I guess?

Time I fucked up is a lot more fitting

Seriously,

almost 99.99% of r/TIFU post start with "This didn't happen today but.." or "This happened a while back..."

I’ve noticed this trend happening more and more often recently. Redditors using TLDR as a sort of “funny joke” play for more upvotes, but it’s pretty annoying if you actually just want to hear the short version of he post. Posts like this, this and this.

It is in the rules of the subreddit that this has to be included, so can we stop posts that don’t bother to use it correctly and use it as a lame attempt at being funny? It rarely is...

TIFU used to be great but now it's just "TIFU by sexing my hot GF". Most posts are either NSFW humble brags or defy the nature of TIFU. I suggest that the rules actually get enforced. For a start, most posts aren't even a real TIFU. The OP has no real consequence and the fuck up was really mild. The engagement ring post is a glaring example of this, I have no idea why it isn't taken down yet.

Tifu used to have high quality, original posts with good writing. Twists, turns of events and nice storytelling.

If I remember correctly it used to be more along the lines of : TIFU by going on a holiday. Tl;Dr went on a holiday without telling anyone, they had a wake for me and all my accounts are blocked.

Where as now it seems to be more along these lines: TIFU by spitting on a stranger's face. Tl;Dr I drank cola in the movie theater laughed too hard. I spit out my drink and a little came on a stranger's arm.

Next to that, since everyone can post sex related stuff at any time, the sub has been flooded with low quality shitposts.

Please let us have a discussion about this at the very least.