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This is a well known problem in reddit. The self-aware joke is /r/suberbowl, which is commonly mistaken for a football game, when it's really a place for suberb

by ddek 5y ago

This is a well known problem in reddit. The self-aware joke is /r/suberbowl, which is commonly mistaken for a football game, when it's really a place for suberb owl pics. I remember /r/crypto having predictable problems, given its a fairly small community going back long before cryptocurrency gained mainstream attention.

peterkelly 5y ago
/r/worldpolitics and /r/anime_titties
- BeFlatXIII 5y ago
  The ol' Reddit switcharoo.
  - albertsondev 5y ago
    That one wasn't just a switcharoo -- r/worldnews got compromised and became a complete anarchy zone for a while. The other sprung up in response to replace it and just sorta stuck even after r/worldnews proper got cleaned up and restored to working order.
wpietri 5y ago
Hopefully folks will forgive the tangent, but my favorite-ever Onion video is about Prague's Kafka International Airport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ
- dustintrex 5y ago
  All problems are traveller's own! Properly follow proper protocols!
fernandotakai 5y ago
yup! for the longest time, the top post on /r/gunners (a subreddit for arsenal fc -- a soccer club from london -- supporters) was "How are long distance sniper shots taken"[0] because the user thought it was a gun subreddit. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/2blrik/how_are_long_distance_sniper_shots_taken/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/2blrik/how_are_lon...
- paganel 5y ago
  Thanks for that link, it was somehow nostalgic, from back in the day when Arsenal fans were still confident enough to make fun of Tottenham dropping out of CL spots (I guess that's what the chicken on the basketball and dropping out on 5th place means)
  - fernandotakai 5y ago
    haha, exactly! to be honest, i'm totally looking forward to arsenal's future -- young manager, absurdly young and talented team mixed with good veterans. a front of Saka, ESR, Ødegaard and Martinelli looks so good!
- narrator 5y ago
  A gunner is also someone who tries way too hard in law school.
tomc1985 5y ago
/r/weed and /r/trees
- xdennis 5y ago
  /r/weed is about weed. I think you mean https://old.reddit.com/r/marijuanaenthusiasts/ https://old.reddit.com/r/marijuanaenthusiasts/ .
jp57 5y ago
Except that unlike /r/kafka, they could have chosen /r/superb_owl. Someone obviously wanted to make a joke by grabbing "superbowl" before the football fans could.
- jlarocco 5y ago
  > Except that unlike /r/kafka, they could have chosen /r/superb_owl. That's hardly a justification for either side, though. The Kafkas could have went with "/r/franz_kafka" and "/r/apache_kafka" and there wouldn't be any problem.
  - kitd 5y ago
    Reddit needs a disambiguation option, like Wikipedia.
- halestock 5y ago
  I think it was deliberately tongue-in-cheek since the nfl is notoriously litigious when it comes to the use of "super bowl".
  - LanceH 5y ago
    This is what makes that subreddit so great.
    - SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
      Pretty sure all the cute owls is what makes it so great. That's just the cherry on top.
- ddek 5y ago
  But, that wouldn’t be a joke though.
oasisbob 5y ago
Also r/trees: it's a euphemistic drug sub. The sub for the woody perennials ("real trees") is resigned to r/sfwtrees.
- speedgoose 5y ago
  It's not r/marijuanaenthusiasts ?
  - pests 5y ago
    That's the original yes but the branding is obviously bad.
- anon9001 5y ago
  Weird someone made sfwtrees, it's supposed to be /r/marijuanaenthusiasts for non-cannabis trees.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y ago
  The sub for the woody perennials is r/marijuanaenthusiasts in classic switcharoo style.
- eloisius 5y ago
  My favorite is the permalink reddit.com/trees (no r). So many confused high people in the comments.
ffwszgf 5y ago
A more high profile version is /r/Tesla and /r/teslamotors
davidkunz 5y ago
"superbowl" was also featured in an episode of "What we do in the shadows": https://whatwedointheshadows.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_Scramblies https://whatwedointheshadows.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_Scramblie...
Macha 5y ago
Yeah, r/rust is about the language, not the game, which is at r/playrust, which is almost the reverse of this problem. There's usually a handful of such submissions each week, which is not much, but actual rust posts are probably in the 100-200 range. It's most interesting when people post asking about hacks (cheats) for Rust (the game) and get sent articles about hacking (programming) using Rust (the language)
- Robotbeat 5y ago
  Kinda prefer names for technical things like Fortran, COBOL, C++, Javascript, etc, instead of very common proper nouns. Kind of pollutes google results.
  - djmips 5y ago
    It also pollutes your mind space and people also expect you to laugh at the inevitable obvious puns.
  - justin_oaks 5y ago
    I wonder what some people are thinking when they give their product or company a name that makes it hard to find in an internet search. Do they not see it coming? Or do they not care? People can be excused for that type of name in the early era of the internet, but if you do it today... I just don't understand. The foremost in my mind is the Go programming language. Several people refer to it as Golang because of it's poor name.
    - sverhagen 5y ago
      When you're throwing something together as a hobby project, or a working name that never gets changed, or something that was only meant for internal use, or whatever, isn't it just too grandiose to have to think about whether your (far in the future, if at all ever) Reddit group is going to be ambiguous? I think you're attributing too much forethought to these things.
      - 5y ago
jrootabega 5y ago
The coffee roasting sub /r/roasting occasionally has people come in to discuss how to insult their friends better. People seem pretty nice about it, though, which must be annoying.
eliaspro 5y ago
That's like the /r/firstaidkit (Band from Sweden) seeing posts of companies trying to advertise their newest first-aid kit or people on /r/puppet believing they could find the next Jim Henson there.
1_player 5y ago
/r/potatosalad is about John Cena. /r/johncena is about potato salads.
gs17 5y ago
/r/flash (for the obsolete plugin, not the superhero) and /r/valve (for the game company, not the plumbing fixture) have this issue too. I get spammers not caring but you'd think actual users would look around a bit before posting. Maybe they have a totally different post flow than what I'm used to (e.g. using subreddits like hashtags instead of communities).
- GranPC 5y ago
  The official apps, new site and old site all allow you to create a post from the front page into any subreddit simply by specifying the name. I assume that's what's happening here.
- alternatetwo 5y ago
  Yep, that's why there is /r/FlashTV ... on the flipside, there is /r/psych, for the TV show, where people sometimes come with psychology related questions.
emodendroket 5y ago
My favorite was a guy coming to /r/bbw to ask about barbecuing.
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mlok 5y ago
Unsollicited Diks is cute, too : https://twitter.com/UnsolicitedDiks https://twitter.com/UnsolicitedDiks
- tyingq 5y ago
  I guess /r/flash could be repurposed for actual unsolicited diks since Adobe Flash is dead.
rubatuga 5y ago
Minaj has a song called super bass, similar effect.
lormayna 5y ago
> This is a well known problem in reddit. The self-aware joke is /r/suberbowl, which is commonly mistaken for a football game, when it's really a place for suberb owl pics. > I remember /r/crypto having predictable problems, given its a fairly small community going back long before cryptocurrency gained mainstream attention. /r/peloton is about professional cycling, but many people think it's about Peloton trainers
- oceliker 5y ago
  > /r/peloton is about professional cycling, but many people think it's about Peloton trainers I just learned Peloton is actually a word with a meaning for cyclists, not just a brand.
VortexDream 5y ago
My favorite variation is the ones like https://reddit.com/r/tightpussy https://reddit.com/r/tightpussy (sfw). There are a lot of them.
- sumedh 5y ago
  I wont click on that click, the url will match some banned keyword and then I will get an email from HR :)
  - VortexDream 5y ago
    Right, sorry. It's basically a subreddit where people post cat pictures.
- Sniffnoy 5y ago
  My understanding was that one was originally the expected NSFW thing, then got taken over and turned into what it is now. I can't find an easy way to confirm or refute this at the moment, though, so this may be mistaken.
  - VortexDream 5y ago
    There was a comment by the person who's doing it on purpose and taking over abandoned NSFW subs. https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/6ruv62/_/dl80lvg https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/6ruv62/_/dl8...
    - Sniffnoy 5y ago
      I see, thanks!
Wowfunhappy 5y ago
> The self-aware joke is /r/suberbowl, which is commonly mistaken for a football game, when it's really a place for suberb owl pics. https://www.reddit.com//r/suberbowl https://www.reddit.com//r/suberbowl > This subreddit was banned due to being unmoderated. Aww, it sounded funny. It's a shame reddit couldn't at least leave a read-only archive up. I tried archive.org but there's not much there.
- NobodyNada 5y ago
  That's a typo: it should be https://reddit.com/r/superbowl https://reddit.com/r/superbowl
  - Wowfunhappy 5y ago
    Oops, thank you, I should have caught that!
dustintrex 5y ago
FTFY: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superbowl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Superbowl/
dunham 5y ago
I remember seeing a post on /r/sml (low traffic sub about Standard ML) asking about Super Mario Land.
EdwardDiego 5y ago
Sadly, as a moderator of /r/apachekafka, we have not yet had the pleasure of a lost Redditor wanting to discuss Franz Kafka's influence on Albert Camus.
- jhbadger 5y ago
  But maybe someday someone wanting to translate Franz Kafka's works into the native American language Ndee (spoken by Apaches) will show up!
MisterSandman 5y ago
/r/Destiny is for the streamer, and /r/DestinyTheGame is for... the game.
- KptMarchewa 5y ago
  The streamer was there for few years before the game was even announced though.
pkulak 5y ago
Maybe only a bit related, but I love how since "trees" was taken, someone made "marijuanaenthusiasts"... for discussing trees.
- Doxin 5y ago
  Note that trees was, of course, taken by a community of marijuana enthusiasts.
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by ddek 5y ago

peterkelly 5y ago

/r/worldpolitics and /r/anime_titties

BeFlatXIII 5y ago
The ol' Reddit switcharoo.
- albertsondev 5y ago
  That one wasn't just a switcharoo -- r/worldnews got compromised and became a complete anarchy zone for a while. The other sprung up in response to replace it and just sorta stuck even after r/worldnews proper got cleaned up and restored to working order.

wpietri 5y ago

Hopefully folks will forgive the tangent, but my favorite-ever Onion video is about Prague's Kafka International Airport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ

dustintrex 5y ago
All problems are traveller's own! Properly follow proper protocols!

fernandotakai 5y ago

yup! for the longest time, the top post on /r/gunners (a subreddit for arsenal fc -- a soccer club from london -- supporters) was "How are long distance sniper shots taken"[0] because the user thought it was a gun subreddit. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/2blrik/how_are_long_distance_sniper_shots_taken/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/2blrik/how_are_lon...

paganel 5y ago
Thanks for that link, it was somehow nostalgic, from back in the day when Arsenal fans were still confident enough to make fun of Tottenham dropping out of CL spots (I guess that's what the chicken on the basketball and dropping out on 5th place means)
- fernandotakai 5y ago
  haha, exactly! to be honest, i'm totally looking forward to arsenal's future -- young manager, absurdly young and talented team mixed with good veterans. a front of Saka, ESR, Ødegaard and Martinelli looks so good!
narrator 5y ago
A gunner is also someone who tries way too hard in law school.

tomc1985 5y ago

/r/weed and /r/trees

xdennis 5y ago
/r/weed is about weed. I think you mean https://old.reddit.com/r/marijuanaenthusiasts/ https://old.reddit.com/r/marijuanaenthusiasts/ .

jp57 5y ago

Except that unlike /r/kafka, they could have chosen /r/superb_owl. Someone obviously wanted to make a joke by grabbing "superbowl" before the football fans could.

jlarocco 5y ago
> Except that unlike /r/kafka, they could have chosen /r/superb_owl. That's hardly a justification for either side, though. The Kafkas could have went with "/r/franz_kafka" and "/r/apache_kafka" and there wouldn't be any problem.
- kitd 5y ago
  Reddit needs a disambiguation option, like Wikipedia.
halestock 5y ago
I think it was deliberately tongue-in-cheek since the nfl is notoriously litigious when it comes to the use of "super bowl".
- LanceH 5y ago
  This is what makes that subreddit so great.
  - SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
    Pretty sure all the cute owls is what makes it so great. That's just the cherry on top.
ddek 5y ago
But, that wouldn’t be a joke though.

oasisbob 5y ago

Also r/trees: it's a euphemistic drug sub. The sub for the woody perennials ("real trees") is resigned to r/sfwtrees.

speedgoose 5y ago
It's not r/marijuanaenthusiasts ?
- pests 5y ago
  That's the original yes but the branding is obviously bad.
anon9001 5y ago
Weird someone made sfwtrees, it's supposed to be /r/marijuanaenthusiasts for non-cannabis trees.
bitxbitxbitcoin 5y ago
The sub for the woody perennials is r/marijuanaenthusiasts in classic switcharoo style.
eloisius 5y ago
My favorite is the permalink reddit.com/trees (no r). So many confused high people in the comments.

ffwszgf 5y ago

A more high profile version is /r/Tesla and /r/teslamotors

davidkunz 5y ago

"superbowl" was also featured in an episode of "What we do in the shadows": https://whatwedointheshadows.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_Scramblies https://whatwedointheshadows.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_Scramblie...

Macha 5y ago

Yeah, r/rust is about the language, not the game, which is at r/playrust, which is almost the reverse of this problem. There's usually a handful of such submissions each week, which is not much, but actual rust posts are probably in the 100-200 range. It's most interesting when people post asking about hacks (cheats) for Rust (the game) and get sent articles about hacking (programming) using Rust (the language)

Robotbeat 5y ago
Kinda prefer names for technical things like Fortran, COBOL, C++, Javascript, etc, instead of very common proper nouns. Kind of pollutes google results.
- djmips 5y ago
  It also pollutes your mind space and people also expect you to laugh at the inevitable obvious puns.
- justin_oaks 5y ago
  I wonder what some people are thinking when they give their product or company a name that makes it hard to find in an internet search. Do they not see it coming? Or do they not care? People can be excused for that type of name in the early era of the internet, but if you do it today... I just don't understand. The foremost in my mind is the Go programming language. Several people refer to it as Golang because of it's poor name.
  - sverhagen 5y ago
    When you're throwing something together as a hobby project, or a working name that never gets changed, or something that was only meant for internal use, or whatever, isn't it just too grandiose to have to think about whether your (far in the future, if at all ever) Reddit group is going to be ambiguous? I think you're attributing too much forethought to these things.
    - 5y ago

jrootabega 5y ago

The coffee roasting sub /r/roasting occasionally has people come in to discuss how to insult their friends better. People seem pretty nice about it, though, which must be annoying.

eliaspro 5y ago

That's like the /r/firstaidkit (Band from Sweden) seeing posts of companies trying to advertise their newest first-aid kit or people on /r/puppet believing they could find the next Jim Henson there.

1_player 5y ago

/r/potatosalad is about John Cena. /r/johncena is about potato salads.

gs17 5y ago

/r/flash (for the obsolete plugin, not the superhero) and /r/valve (for the game company, not the plumbing fixture) have this issue too. I get spammers not caring but you'd think actual users would look around a bit before posting. Maybe they have a totally different post flow than what I'm used to (e.g. using subreddits like hashtags instead of communities).

GranPC 5y ago
The official apps, new site and old site all allow you to create a post from the front page into any subreddit simply by specifying the name. I assume that's what's happening here.
alternatetwo 5y ago
Yep, that's why there is /r/FlashTV ... on the flipside, there is /r/psych, for the TV show, where people sometimes come with psychology related questions.

emodendroket 5y ago

My favorite was a guy coming to /r/bbw to ask about barbecuing.

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mlok 5y ago

Unsollicited Diks is cute, too : https://twitter.com/UnsolicitedDiks https://twitter.com/UnsolicitedDiks

tyingq 5y ago
I guess /r/flash could be repurposed for actual unsolicited diks since Adobe Flash is dead.

rubatuga 5y ago

Minaj has a song called super bass, similar effect.

lormayna 5y ago

> This is a well known problem in reddit. The self-aware joke is /r/suberbowl, which is commonly mistaken for a football game, when it's really a place for suberb owl pics. > I remember /r/crypto having predictable problems, given its a fairly small community going back long before cryptocurrency gained mainstream attention. /r/peloton is about professional cycling, but many people think it's about Peloton trainers

oceliker 5y ago
> /r/peloton is about professional cycling, but many people think it's about Peloton trainers I just learned Peloton is actually a word with a meaning for cyclists, not just a brand.

VortexDream 5y ago

My favorite variation is the ones like https://reddit.com/r/tightpussy https://reddit.com/r/tightpussy (sfw). There are a lot of them.

sumedh 5y ago
I wont click on that click, the url will match some banned keyword and then I will get an email from HR :)
- VortexDream 5y ago
  Right, sorry. It's basically a subreddit where people post cat pictures.
Sniffnoy 5y ago
My understanding was that one was originally the expected NSFW thing, then got taken over and turned into what it is now. I can't find an easy way to confirm or refute this at the moment, though, so this may be mistaken.
- VortexDream 5y ago
  There was a comment by the person who's doing it on purpose and taking over abandoned NSFW subs. https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/6ruv62/_/dl80lvg https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/6ruv62/_/dl8...
  - Sniffnoy 5y ago
    I see, thanks!

Wowfunhappy 5y ago

> The self-aware joke is /r/suberbowl, which is commonly mistaken for a football game, when it's really a place for suberb owl pics. https://www.reddit.com//r/suberbowl https://www.reddit.com//r/suberbowl > This subreddit was banned due to being unmoderated. Aww, it sounded funny. It's a shame reddit couldn't at least leave a read-only archive up. I tried archive.org but there's not much there.

NobodyNada 5y ago
That's a typo: it should be https://reddit.com/r/superbowl https://reddit.com/r/superbowl
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago
  Oops, thank you, I should have caught that!

dustintrex 5y ago

FTFY: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superbowl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Superbowl/

dunham 5y ago

I remember seeing a post on /r/sml (low traffic sub about Standard ML) asking about Super Mario Land.

EdwardDiego 5y ago

Sadly, as a moderator of /r/apachekafka, we have not yet had the pleasure of a lost Redditor wanting to discuss Franz Kafka's influence on Albert Camus.

jhbadger 5y ago
But maybe someday someone wanting to translate Franz Kafka's works into the native American language Ndee (spoken by Apaches) will show up!

MisterSandman 5y ago

/r/Destiny is for the streamer, and /r/DestinyTheGame is for... the game.

KptMarchewa 5y ago
The streamer was there for few years before the game was even announced though.

pkulak 5y ago

Maybe only a bit related, but I love how since "trees" was taken, someone made "marijuanaenthusiasts"... for discussing trees.

Doxin 5y ago
Note that trees was, of course, taken by a community of marijuana enthusiasts.

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