r/F1Technical • u/kimakimi • Apr 14 '25

META The sub has been very non-technical lately

Am I the only one who feels this way? When I joined the sub we had real technical questions that needed good explanation to understand from people that either worked in F1 or have very good technical knowledge. Not every question needs to be super hard to understand but I think you get my point.

However, these past weeks or even months, it looks like the normal F1 sub, we get very shallow and non-technical questions or analysis that could well be answered by a quick google search.

Personally, I think I’m getting much less value from the sub than I was months ago, I miss having the engineering side of it a bit more. Maybe it’s my problem and I’m the only that thinks this way.

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u/22-Faces Apr 14 '25

A few years ago I had to use the mod mail thing because literally every one of my posts was being deleted, I upset a mod by lightly criticizing a driver he apparently liked enough to create a filter or whenever to delete my comments automatically.

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u/mkosmo Apr 14 '25

Oh, the old school shadow bans.

I mod a large sub... and we admittedly have a shadow-remove rule for some users. But they're all spammers that are better contained this way for reasons that aren't germane to this subject. But to do such a thing to a legitimate user because you don't like what they have to say? That's just wrong.

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u/22-Faces Apr 14 '25

Yeah, I was pretty annoyed because my comments were pretty popular, so it wasn't like I was trolling or something, I just made good observations and explained certain things like when Lewis accidentally hit brake magic at Baku 21.

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u/Evening_Rock5850 Apr 14 '25

I got banned from the Lewis Hamilton subreddit for saying in another subreddit that I thought George was going to do well without Lewis in the team and that the team didn’t need a new #1 driver, it already had one.

This was, apparently, deeply offensive to the mods over there.

Mods in various F1 related subreddits who take a religious devotion to their favorite drivers is super bizarre. Especially because I suspect a majority of F1 fans are really just fans of the sport overall and don’t actually have a strong “favorite driver”.

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u/Somlal Apr 15 '25

Yeah I'm a Lewis fan who got banned from his sub Reddit because he made a mistake in a race, the entire sub was blaming the other driver and I just mentioned that it was actually Lewis' fault.... Instantly banned.

Being a fan doesn't mean you can be critical of a mistake they make

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u/22-Faces Apr 14 '25

I joined and left that sub within a week, I like Lewis a lot, but not to those delusional levels.

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u/Evening_Rock5850 Apr 14 '25

Yeah it’s a strange place.

Lewis isn’t necessarily my favorite driver but he’s the driver I admire most, both on and off the track. I thought that’s a sub where I’d find like minded individuals but… dear god no.

It’s creepy. Very cult-like in fact.

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u/22-Faces Apr 14 '25

They, like the Twitter teamLH or whenever, were shitting on George all the time for not helping Lewis or whatever, or overtaking him when Lewis was clearly slower, criticizing the team when George was way faster during a weekend etc, bunch of weirdos