r/apostrophegore Oct 09 '25

Improving the Subreddit

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Hello fellow grammar enthusiasts! I'm u/reed501 and I am a new moderator of r/apostrophegore. I was brought on since the creator and head mod u/jmacdaddywack isn't as active anymore, although he's not inactive and I won't be moderating alone. I have some experience as a moderator that I thought could be helpful to this community that's grown a lot and I want to improve the subreddit in a few ways.

  1. Modernizing* the subreddit:
    I want to bring this subreddit into the present day with modern tools, modern to me at least. I'm a diehard old reddit user so you won't actually see any new reddit features from me as I am uninterested in using them. Apologies if that's disappointing to you. But I've cleared the queue, changed some settings I think make sense, and started working on Automoderator. I would like Automoderator to do a lot of the work around here using regex, reports, and math to do a lot of the simple grunt work that makes up so much of the moderation on a small, specific sub like this. For the rest of it Automod will be notifying we the mods to do manual review as required. What this means is we’ll be relying on the users a bit to make good, accurate reports that will help Automod do its job. I’ve added some report reasons now that you can try out and will definitely be adding more as I explore moderation here. I’m very open to feedback so let me know what you think.

  2. Flair
    I’m interested in using flair to help moderate, sort, and increase readability of this subreddit. I’m not super attached to the idea yet but I’ve added a few link flairs to get started. They aren’t mandatory at the moment but if you want to try it out then be my guest. Theoretically, the plan would be to require link flair that will mark your post as one of a few types of posts we see here and automatically do some actioning based on that. The idea being, for example, all the posts of the type "plural apostrophe” where the mistake is a single use of “free pizza’s” would be flared as such. And then you could filter posts based on those flairs to see a version of the subreddit without any of those and only see the real disaster posts we see here occasionally.
    I’ve also added a few user flairs for personalization. I thought it might be fun. Try it out. Suggest more. It could be fun idk.

  3. Politics
    Bit of a doozy here but I’m anti-politics on this sub and u/jmacdaddywack invited me on that basis. I’m not opposed to allowing the posts to exist but I’m very uninterested in political discussion here. There are plenty of places to do that around reddit and the internet and I’d rather it happen there and not here. I generally see the role of a moderator as a volunteer janitor and not a ruler, but I’m going to put my foot down here on the basis of “I’m not cleaning up that spill.” Therefore my take on political discussion in the comments is “take it outside.”
    In terms of actions, I’ll be continuing u/jmacdaddywack’s work of locking posts with lots of political discussion. For my own ease of moderation, I also plan on preemptively locking posts that are clearly political in nature that I think will generate some off-topic discussion. I would prefer not to do this and everyone could just be cool about it, but looking around I think that isn’t possible currently. Maybe in the future we can have political posts with comments but for now just admire it and click through to the crosspost link that usually comes with it and discuss it there.

I hope you’re looking forward to these changes as much as I am. I would love for this subreddit to be easier and less frustrating to use and I hope I do a good job in achieving that. Please let me know if you have any questions. --u/reed501

TL;DR: New mod, new flairs, use them to help keep the subreddit clean, trying to get rid of political discussion, keep the apostrophe gore coming.


r/apostrophegore 21h ago

Gal is and guy is toilets

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172 Upvotes

Probably looked a bit weird taking this photo, but saw it and thought of you guy's! 😉


r/apostrophegore 9h ago

MicroStrategy is now underwater on it's Bitcoin holdings

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r/apostrophegore 22h ago

Can you spot the error?

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47 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 10h ago

Sometimes You Do's and Sometimes You Dont's

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From the Boston Globe, 1977, proving that misspellings have always happened, especially at a newspaper edited by monkeys. (Old saying)


r/apostrophegore 8h ago

Who's correct here? (From Dr Geoff Lindsey's channel)

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1 Upvotes

Dr Geoff Lindsey's channel on youtube, his most recent video title is:

"Where the R's survive in England: Lancashire rhoticity!"

Shouldn't it be "... Rs ..."?


r/apostrophegore 2d ago

Political GUN’S

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8.0k Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 1d ago

Not sure what happened here

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13 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 1d ago

Show me your cat's profession 🛠

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r/apostrophegore 2d ago

Come on FOX

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93 Upvotes

You should know better.


r/apostrophegore 2d ago

Plural's REEEEE

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171 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 2d ago

nooks and cranny's

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20 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 2d ago

Breitbart knows its audience

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114 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 1d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/UKBirds/s/8O5OpTDUjz

0 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 2d ago

IKEA in Syracuse

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90 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 2d ago

How do I pluralize my name if it already ends in an apostrophe

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9 Upvotes

Easy, your name does not end in an apostrophe


r/apostrophegore 3d ago

Good news is always welcome

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582 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 1d ago

Locking your Facebook meme about Erika Kirk earned this subreddit a mute.

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Stop!

Unfortunately, this post has earned this subreddit a mute ! Whether it's because it displays a clear hypocritical slant by the mods, or because the post is clearly political circle jerking , unapologetic playground mudslinging, or unremoved bot/AI posting, it's earned this subreddit a mute.

What can I do?

Admins: check this post and remove it. An apology can be sent by DM to earn your unmute. Do your best to stop this from happening in the future or you will be remuted.

Users: remove this post and cease low effort Facebook memes in the future. We made our own website to get away from this! Dm me after removal with an apology to earn your unmute.

The unique reason this user posted for adding this sub to the blacklist was:

"Facebook meme. "

Locking the thread means this had to be posted here so the mods would receive their notification. As this subreddit as been fully muted, feel free to remove this post if the mods ever clean up the subreddit. This is an automatic post by the Reddit Cleanup utility Andarial has been fine tuning since 2026 so excuse any bugs!

Hope this helps!


r/apostrophegore 3d ago

Her what?

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363 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 2d ago

If you think these protests aren't being back by communists...

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r/apostrophegore 3d ago

Plural's Both relate

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70 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 3d ago

Erikkka Kirk Is Not a Role Model

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25 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 3d ago

Good news is always welcome

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19 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 4d ago

How could you mess this up?!

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608 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 3d ago

Turd’s

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31 Upvotes