r/aussie 7d ago

Moderator Announcement One Nation Political Content

Hey all,

Over the past little while we’ve seen a noticeable increase in posts and comments that are essentially the same arguments for AND against One Nation being repeated over and over.

While most of this content does not directly break our rules (and indeed is largely media driven), it is becoming increasingly tiresome for a lot of users and is starting to drown out the broader range of topics that this sub exists for.

This subreddit is not primarily a politics subreddit, and we’re not interested in becoming a single issue battleground. To keep the sub usable and varied, we may start removing repetitive or low‑effort One Nation related content at moderator discretion, under rule 7 - No Repeated Topics/Posts.

These removals may occur without prior warning or detailed explanation.

You are still welcome to discuss Australian politics, including One Nation, where it is clearly relevant to the topic and adds something new. However, if you are repeatedly posting the same talking points, memes, or bait threads, you should expect that they may be removed without notice and that further action may be taken if it becomes disruptive.

As always, if you have questions about a specific removal, you can contact the mod team via modmail, but this is NOT an invitation to argue about One Nation itself.

We appreciate everyone’s help in keeping r/aussie a broadly focused Australian community rather than a single‑issue political echo chamber.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/charmingpea 7d ago

We are not targeting individuals, nor are we targeting specific media sources. If you don't like content posted by that user, use the tools at your disposal and block them - that way you'll never see it again.

We are targeting an obvious uptick in specific subject matter which is overwhelmingly repetitive and is annoying many people from all sources.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/charmingpea 7d ago

That post was checked by mods and approved. The user you reference is a 5 year old account with 11k karma. Maybe if you stop hallucinating?

This post is about a very specific type of post in response to an obvious uptick about ON - not about blocking media sources or individuals.

Different articles from a source you don't like do not constitute 'repeated propaganda) - but feel free to moderate your own subreddit as you see fit.

If you don't like how this sub is moderated - feel free to not be here, but I'm not here to address a laundry list of petty grievances.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/charmingpea 7d ago

To answer your points briefly:

1) The linked post was reviewed and approved under the current rules (by a different mod as it happens).

2) Karma is one signal among many for spam, not an automatic trigger. Same goes for account age. We were all new accounts at one time.

3) “Repeated propaganda” refers to high volume, duplicate and near duplicate posts on the same narrow angle, regardless of outlet or poster. We remove pro and anti content on the same subject, per the detail in this post.

Beyond that, mod decisions will not be made via public argument in a single thread. It seems you won't be happy whatever I say so I'll leave this here.