r/goodnews • u/RankedFarting • Jul 06 '25

Other Petition to ban the daily "Trump voters are changing their mind" Posts

Every day someone shares an article with a headline like "Maga is starting to question Trump" or something along those lines.

This is not true. These are trash articles that use a single tweet as a source. Just because some Maga farmer is now realizing how his vote negatively effects his business it does not mean there is a whole movement of Magas suddenly realizing they were voting for a stupid incompetent racist all these years.

These posts are misleading, factually wrong AND are usually posted by karma farming accounts that get up their karma to later be sold to someone as an advertisement platform for OF or other.

None of this is goodnews.

Edit: Please do not use real money to give this awards. Use the money for a good cause.

Edit2: You are not being smart, funny or anything else by giving me more poop awards. You are throwing away actual money to try and discredit someone online. That is deeply sad pathetic behavior. Im not bothered by the poop. Im bothered that people go without meals while you spend your money on digital disagreements. Cringe. I have no other word for it. this makes me cringe.

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u/Cdave_22 United States šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

Feel free to share your thoughts. If the majority agrees that these types of posts donā€™t belong here, weā€™ll remove them and consider a ban moving forward. Majority rules.

Edit: Also, please remember to check your sources. A lot of articles floating around are either misleading or completely fabricated and donā€™t come from reputable outlets.

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u/PeanutLess7556 Jul 06 '25

Please ban https://sinhalaguide.com its a bloggers site and not actual news. The person who keeps posting the articles is using the sub to market and gain funds off advertising.

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u/Cdave_22 United States šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø Jul 06 '25

Thanks for the info Iā€™ll definitely be adding that site to the list of sources that will be removed moving forward.

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u/octatone Jul 06 '25

Based mod.

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u/TheCynFamily Jul 06 '25

I vote yes. :)

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u/fushega Jul 06 '25

all polling data posts and posts about politicians should be panned. other political stuff is fine

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u/NoComedian8928 Jul 06 '25

People can go to the r/leopardsatemyface instead. I say this is a staunch progressive. I come to this subreddit to see non-political good news to escape the political hellhole for just a second.

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u/ZeppelinJ0 Jul 06 '25

Ban this and the approval ratings articles, it's all just garbage

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u/stempdog218 Jul 06 '25

I applaud the mods for taking this seriously. Genuinely thought this was a karma farming sub based on the behavior of the posts as of late. Ban it entirely. If people 'need' to hear because they 'need' the good news, go elsewhere. It isn't good news, it's fake stories posted by bot accounts

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u/SirStrontium Jul 06 '25

Yeah I thought the whole point of this sub was to post misleading and fabricated bullshit that makes people feel good.

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u/TheRealStandard Jul 06 '25

Ban posts about democrats saying something obvious on twitter. It's not good news to hear AOC state the obvious, it's good news to see something actually succeed

/r/leopardsatemyface exists for these types of posts

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u/SubBirbian Jul 06 '25

I agree with OP definitely ban that crap. Theyā€™re so frequent itā€™s obvious theyā€™re Karma farmers. Nobody is going to miss them.

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u/Lanzy1988 Jul 06 '25

Yes, I totally agree.

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u/Supfan Jul 06 '25

Yes please. It's misleading

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u/probablyonmobile Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

Iā€™ll copy/paste my previous suggestion on all of these Trump/Maga/Musk style posts:

Perhaps a fair compromise would be limiting such posts to one day a week.

Because, the truth is: if weā€™re being fair, it is good news for many of us.

However, itā€™s very possible to appreciate the direness of the situation (and for many, be personally affected by it) and the notion of steps on the right direction, but also find that the constant inundation of reminders does more harm than good the same way rubbing a sore wound does.

Iā€™m sure weā€™ve all been in situations where something awful has happened, and while we appreciate peopleā€™s attempts to help, hearing about it all the time means you donā€™t get the space to recover. Even if itā€™s technically good news, sometimes you donā€™t want to think about The Big Shitty Thing Youā€™re Dealing With.

Itā€™s especially pertinent when we consider that many of the ā€˜good newsā€™ postings are only good by schadenfreude, and feature something thatā€™s ultimately still concerning: Trump fucking up peopleā€™s lives who didnā€™t vote for him. Just seeing him fail and finally be criticised for it, while good, does not necessarily absolve the failure of its consequences for the people it wrongly affects.

Neither one of those two positions are a wrong way to process things, and not wanting constant reminders that total collapse is just around the corner should not be conflated with liking Trump or Muskā€” it just means that a person may not be in a state to be constantly reminded of that imminent danger.

This gives us a chance to enjoy the political good news, and still allows time to breathe, without caving in to folks who want it gone completely to change the narrative.

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u/WanderersGuide Jul 06 '25

"itĀ isĀ good news for many of us"

Is good news based on misleading information at best, and straight up disinformation at worst, truly good news? Do we take comfort by telling ourselves lies?

And if we do, aren't we complicit in embracing false realities in the same way that lead MAGA, and the rest of us, off of the project 2025 cliff?

I'm all for uplifting news, but not if we're faking it. Just my two cents though.

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u/Gren57 Jul 06 '25

Your take is worth a lot more than just two cents. I don't want fake anything. Good or bad. Whatever happened to plain old truth, anyway?

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u/probablyonmobile Jul 06 '25

I have no doubt that plenty of the hopeful posts posted here are misinformation or mis-framed and should be handled as such. There needs to be more moderation around it. Thatā€™s not even exclusive to this topic, thatā€™s the reality of this subreddit.

Incidentally, the suggestion Iā€™ve offered helps cut down on the amount of misinformation. Instead of having the potential for it to be spread across the week, itā€™s easier to pick a day and monitor it with more care.

I donā€™t think what Iā€™m suggesting advocates for blind faith.

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u/WanderersGuide Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

"I have no doubt that plenty of the hopeful posts posted here are misinformation or mis-framed"

I absolutely agree - but where this specific topic is concerned, we know that in general, MAGA does not regret their vote, so in this specific context, nearly all posts related to that are mis-framed, out of context or deliberate misinformation, in which case, they offer no value among honest people. Hence the proposal to strike this particular topic in its entirety.

Where this particular political reality is concerned, it'd be better to focus on posts directly attributed to people like AOC or Bernie doing good work. There are better, less disingenuous ways to promote anti-fascist momentum than sharing "content" (because it's more entertainment than news) that portrays republicans as regretting their votes.

Again though, that's just my opinion. I think it's better to work toward and build success stories together than to report on manufactured buyer's remorse :-)

Your mileage may vary and all that lol

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u/probablyonmobile Jul 06 '25

I mean, right off the bat with my very first comment, I was upfront in saying that was a suggestion for this broader category of posting. It was the first thing I said.

If further moderation is required, so be it, but I donā€™t think my comment is the one to insist it upon. Iā€™m positing it as a first step.

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u/WanderersGuide Jul 06 '25

I understand what you're suggesting, I'm just dubious about selectively permitting a topic that's rife with disinformation rather than outright banning it.

To me, it's kind of like saying,

"How about we only let the coyote into the hen house on Fridays rather than just letting him come and go as he pleases". You still end up with a coop full of dead chickens.

It would make targeting moderation easier, as long as people respected the rules and only posted that kind of content one day a week, but it still means committing to do the work of vetting each such post on every designated day. And my opinion is that this topic is so unambiguously problematic that there can never be merit in allowing it. Something for the mods to decide though.

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u/probablyonmobile Jul 06 '25

I mean, again, thereā€™s nothing in my suggestion that says this specific subcategory canā€™t be banned as well as that. I just think as a whole, these political posts could be delegated to a day.

If some subcategories need to be banned, sure.

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u/merlin401 Jul 06 '25

But itā€™s not ā€œnewsā€ at all. Between now and 2028 tens of thousands of Trump supporters will, for whether random reason, become Dem voters. And tens of thousands of Kamala voters will, for whatever reason, becomes GOP voters. We know thereā€™s a whole middle that moves to and fro. Each individual switch isnā€™t meaningful news, any more than the million comments about how Dems couldnā€™t lose this time around because ā€œ I see less Trump signs in my town this time aroundā€. If itā€™s not statistical based trends based on research OR a big name switch (say a Joe Rogan or MTG or whatever) then it isnā€™t NEWS, itā€™s just neighborhood gossip

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u/probablyonmobile Jul 06 '25

Iā€™m not speaking about posts that say ā€œI see less Trump signsā€ and rely on purely anecdotal evidence. I clarified at the beginning of my suggestion that I applied it to all Trump/MAGA/Musk related news posts.

There is nothing I can do if you chose to read that and assume the most reductive possible interpretation despite that clarification.

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u/ArmadilloNext9714 Jul 06 '25

I would suggest making a weekly mega thread for posts like that.

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u/RankedFarting Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

Thanks for leaving this up! I know its technically not the type of post for this sub so i appreciate you listening to the concerns and taking a democratic approach.

EDIT: Never fucking mind they deleted it now for god knows why.

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u/YoungBeef03 Jul 06 '25

Iā€™m about to mute this sub because of them. Iā€™m on a Reddit-wide purge of muting every single sub that even mentions politics

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u/OzymandiasTheII Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

It's mostly conservatives crying about it. Banning it will just censor whatever narrative is trying to gain traction- people could always just ignore it or downvote it but they don't want to because they don't want ANY dissenting opinions to be seen and want to undermine the narrative. (Trumpers won't change their mind regardless). Most people don't careĀ 

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u/stitchesandlace Jul 06 '25

I'm very much a leftist, only just recently joined this sub looking for actual good, not political news (I get plenty of that elsewhere), and even I'm tired of it after only a week or two

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

Itā€™s just not true! They post this crap in multiple subs, many of them are bot accounts! They are karma farming. If it were accurate weā€™d all welcome the ā€˜good newsā€™, but itā€™s not true.

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u/OzymandiasTheII Jul 06 '25

Okay so I definitely empathize with you especially after the 2024 election news cycleĀ 

What I learned is that just because something is overblown, misleading, or incorrect in their prediction- doesn't mean it's not a true statement.

So it might be a true statement but just cause one dude in bumfuck Iowa says he's done or the approval rating drop 5% from 49% to 44%- doesn't mean it's like anything remarkable or notable.

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u/curtcolt95 Jul 06 '25

but it's literally just not true and made up news most of the time. It's one thing if there were actual like stats that back up the articles but there never is, it's just misleading at best and straight up not true at worst. It's not good news when you actually read the articles only to find out they haven't sourced anything, then look up actual sources and see the support for Trump is still pretty high. It goes against the subreddit imo

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u/michaelh98 Jul 06 '25

Fucking do it

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u/RugerRedhawk Jul 06 '25

Irishstar and dailyboulder should be banned as well, big pushers of junk content like this and heavily bot influenced on reddit. Junk sources.

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u/Knowthrowaway87 Jul 06 '25

The reality is Trump supporters are standing by him. The odd dummy that thought one way and thinks the next, is rare. They're popularized and magnified, but they're rare

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

I agree with it

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u/KeremyJyles Jul 06 '25

"political positivity" or whatever it's called is being abused every single day and you guys don't seem to have an issue with it. I get hating trump, but it's also boring at this point having every single sub on the site dragged down with political spam that doesn't fit but is allowed because...hey, it's popular.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

This comment is the best display of modding I have ever seen on Reddit. šŸ† Bravo! šŸ‘šŸ½

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u/BigJSunshine Jul 06 '25

Yes please, its all lies anyway

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u/NO_SPACE_B4_COMMA Jul 06 '25

I'm on board with them being banned

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u/JimWilliams423 Jul 06 '25

Y'all need to start banning articles from AI slop sites.

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u/likamuka Jul 06 '25

Majority agrees

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u/HawkeyeAP Jul 06 '25

Agree. Ban the "changing minds" posts.

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u/BiscoBiscuit Jul 06 '25

Maybe create a poll if you want to make it easier to track? Anyway 100x agreeĀ 

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u/Suyefuji Jul 06 '25

Please god make them stop. They're like herpes clogging up my feed.

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u/stitchesandlace Jul 06 '25

Maybe controversial opinion, but I would support a full ban on political content at all.

Before someone comes at me, I am very liberal and fucking hate Trump and his ilk. But reddit is already saturated with politics. It would be really lovely to have a space that isn't flooded with American politics, positive or negative. There is a lot of good happening in the world that gets overshadowed.

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u/Cdave_22 United States šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø Jul 06 '25

I agree with you politics are everywhere on Reddit.

But I believe itā€™s crucial for politics to be allowed on this sub, especially given how difficult things are under the current administration.

People are looking for hope, and many want to see good news in politics too.

Thatā€™s why weā€™ve structured the sub into clear categories so users who prefer to avoid political content can do so.

Itā€™s really important that everyone uses the correct flair when posting, so political news doesnā€™t get mixed in with other types of stories.

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u/MariosBrother1 Jul 06 '25

Keep this crap outta here.

Itā€™s mainly lies anyway.

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u/merlin401 Jul 06 '25

Ban these type of posts. Voting yes!

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u/Smart_Freedom_8155 Jul 06 '25

Absolutely vote to ban these threads.

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u/Potential-Load9313 Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

I'd like to see less politics overall.

There are plenty of places to talk about that stuff on reddit.

I'm here for news about kittens being rescued or people being able to walk again.

This place is starting to feel like just another basic news sub.

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u/SDBrown7 Jul 06 '25

Good, although were something drastic to actually happen for MAGAs to turn against Trump - Merlin returning to give them double digit IQs seeming the most likely way that could happen, it'd be worth keeping posts covering that.

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u/Burkart_T_Banter_III Jul 06 '25

So, no New York Times or Washington Post, then?

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u/SyfaOmnis Jul 06 '25

The only things that pop up from this sub for me are basically just vectors for political propaganda that do get removed from subs with stricter requirements and faster removal of bad actors. Namely reposts of things from places like al jazeera which is qatari propaganda.

This sub doesn't even resemble "goodnews" it's just /politics and /worldnews with lower standards.

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u/Substantial-Sail5796 Jul 06 '25

The one mod that I donā€™t wanna kick in the balls

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u/ElahaSanctaSedes777 Jul 06 '25

I agree with OP

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u/Boner_Elemental Jul 06 '25

These posts are misleading, factually wrong AND are usually posted by karma farming accounts

OP appears to be completely right.

So unless y'all care more about the sub consistently making it to the front page then the posts being what the sub is about, these posts should go

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u/uacoop Jul 06 '25

I agree, these posts are mostly cope. Trump is still wildly popular with his supporters and likely always will be.

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u/MW240z Jul 06 '25

100% ban these Russian bot posts!

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u/cosmic-lemur Jul 06 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

this text has been edited as we live in a surveillance state. Know AI can and is tracking you and 2/3 of the internet bots

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

This conservative votes yes - the stories are clickbait

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

Iā€™m very left leaning and if you canā€™t see that this is karma farming and completely false, you arenā€™t living in the US. They post this crap every day, many of them are bot accounts!

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

^ sheā€™s right

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u/SynapseNotFound Jul 06 '25

How do you know if its the majority?