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Hey Pandas, What Annoys You The Most About Bored Panda Nowadays? (Closed)
Weekly tattoo mishaps, daily AITA posts, regular reddit reposts, etc. What annoys you the most and what kind of content would you want to bring back?
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Can we be KINDER? Please? What happened to the "adorable animals" and "weird clouds" posts? Goofy posts that weren't cruel or anti-(fill in blank)? We NEED to be reminded of fun, good, happy things... Not judgmental AITA, not "AI" art, but feel-good stuff where we see human kindness and can agree on something? (For example, animals are adorable! Flowers are lovely! Funny signs I can deal with!)
This! When I found BP it was mostly comics and pretty pictures. It made my day. Now all the AITA and Entitled Parent posts put me in a bad mood and remind me of all the sucky things in the world. It's not fun anymore and I've really only been sticking around out of loyalty but I'm about done. I don't want to wake up each morning to find some new story about a neglected kid being forced to get creative to get out of taking care of someone else's kids, or some overworked employee maliciously complying with a horrible boss. It bums me out.
I love looking at the photos of animals and mysterious/beautiful places, historical perspectives, etc. I’m tired of SO many posts involving workplace issues. A few are OK, but I read BP for relaxation - not to get riled up about someone’s crappy boss or work environment. Unfortunately, that’s real life for many - not entertainment.
i hate the goddamn m***********g censorship. i suppose some things are understandable but these knobs are censoring everything from countries (N***r) to cats (Maine C**n). can’t even say W***y Wonka, let alone mention [illegal substances]. i’m gonna unalive myself.
Repetition, the same tings showing up under different headings.
In the same article, even! You have time to edit "swear" words, but can't be bothered to check for duplicate content?!
i would prefer to see fewer Reddit reposts and more art/photography. i understand that the AITA posts get more clicks, but they’ve been taking over the feed more and more over the past few months. i also don’t like the product and/or movie posts that are clearly just ads for Amazon. i guess BP is doing what they can to make money and keep advertisers, but i miss the creative content.
I wish they had more comics and lists that are just good things, like people's adopted pets, or some nice memes, or cool things people made. It gets old to see the same lists that are just about how awful people are.
Y3ah my favorite posts on here are the ones about people making clothes, I could never do it but it's always so pretty and impressive
The ridiculous amount of censorship that happens for absolutely no reason. They censored the word N***r in one post.....it's a country FFS!!!!!
The lazy writing.
The copying of Tiktoks.
The tabloid posts.
The banning system.
The f#cking cencorship.
But this not new information, we all know you don't give a sh!t and will keep making BP sh!ttier.
Let's all shït on the US posts. Please, no more.
That you can't reply to someone's comment after they've had a few downvotes.
I would personally put a limit of 15-20 downvotes for that. There are a few comments that r misunderstood, so people can comment on it and fix it
Reddit Copy (AITA)
Reddit Copy (antiwork)
Reddit Copy (mimimi someone wanted to 'karen' me out of my plane seat)
Mediocre AI art
Post your kitchen hacks (yes dammit I put salt in my pasta water, yes f**k I know about acid in seasoning, blah blah, this is getting boring as hell)
which are either copied from reddit, twitter, insta or - currently - on BP
Censorship, you know what. This is the internet, not a kindergarden.
And DONT YOU DARE to replace these with those ridiculous "Disney like" wannabe artists and "USA against the rest of the planet culture shock" articles.
That no one is kind to each other - people are either being shamed because of their gender/political views, or people are being shamed for being Christian. Does it matter if someone is gay or if they believe in God? Just be kind to each other. That’s all that’s needed. There’s always either a troll screaming at everyone for their gender, or everyone on the site making fun of people who believe in God. Can’t we all just be kind to each other?
The filler text that precedes a ripped off Reddit thread written by the BP “author” to make it seem like an original article.
Strong agree. If you're just rephrasing the original text: don't. Literally do nothing. Your extra text actively reducing the quality of the article.
Please no AITA posts,
No Karen posts,
No awful situations at work,
What happened to the good, funny wholesome stuff?
Yes, I want to see funny memes and wholesome moments,
BUT no one cares about some Karen getting kicked off an airplane.
The AITA stories which are clearly just the person looking for accolades. For example-- "I gave a homeless person $10 and dinner and they complained. AITA?"
The ridiculous censorship.
Yes, the stories like: my wife is vegan and served me a vegan meal, even though I’m not vegan. Was that wrong of her?
BP has completely buried Ask Pandas and Challenge #hashtag near-zero participation.
Plus, why oh why does BP “close” the Community threads? No reason at all to set the timer on participation, especially since it’s already a nearly invisible section
The constant belittling and stereotyping of the USA. We get it, we've got tons of problems; but what civilization doesn't?
The lack of rotation in the featured stories. I see the same headlines constantly.
All the negativity! AITA reposts, "how I was wronged" posts, anything "shaming" anything. Enough negativity! We need more positive/upbeat/uplifting posts!
The awful boomer lists about what is wrong with this generation, what used to be "better" in the past etc... it's mostly just irrelevant stuff everyone's remembering through nostalgia's rose tinted glasses...
So much reposted content. After a while it’s the same jokes and stories and pictures over and over again with only a few new oned
Allowing AI articles to appear on the site.
Nobody is clamouring for AI articles. Real articles about actual talented artists get swept to the side in favour of AI articles.
I agree. They're as fake as the fake content about the fakery of AI. It concerns mainly the digital and graphic artists, photographers and public figures. But the concerns and topics where it's leading isn't in the BP articles. It's just "look what I can get the computer to do."
I prefer posts with cute animals, cool artwork, food photography, funny comics, light hearted stories, and fun facts.
I am tired of seeing AITA posts and posts involving controversial topics such as politics. I think this site would be 100% better if most topics that are from either political party could not be posted. I also really dislike the hate that is shown on here for America. There are so many posts about how Americans are awful, ignorant, stupid etc. It makes me mad and sad that a lot of people berate my country. I know it has its issues but so does every country.
I wish this site would go back to being a light-hearted fun escape from reality. It used to be, but it has gotten away from that. Bored Panda and Pinterest is the only social media that I am on. But if Bored Panda keeps getting worse I’ll just stop reading it.
The irony of people dogpiling on America as being ignorant, basing their knowledge off of our least reputable "news" sources.
"Articles" that require us to go watch TikTok videos.
The downvote option is often misused. You hide and eventually block a user if their post or comment gets too many downvotes. I understand your intention is to punish offensive material ,but people don't all agree about what is offensive. Further, many people downvote things they simply don't like, even when others upvote and approve the same post. For example, someone posts pictures of their art or craft, or asks a serious question. Is it fair that people who post these can be banned? At the very least, I would prefer to see the number of upvotes and downvotes separately: this would be helpful, because it would reveal if a post simply got 10 downvotes or if it got 90 upvotes and 100 downvotes. You can still hide the content if the downvotes exceed a threshold value.
That's a good idea! A visual comparison of votes would be awesome 👍90👎100..
I’m here for the collections of memes, pics, tweets, etc. that round up funny content from a variety of people. Automatically scroll past the ones that are just “This Thing Happened to This Guy!”
Me too. I like thrift store finds, things people made, pictures of rooms that have been redecorated, things like that. I scroll past all the stories. Please stop with the kitchen/food hacks.
The excessive censoring. Especially of non-swearwords.
all the stuff you mentioned, plus the trolls, plus the weird formatting, plus the automatic banning system.
The fact that when you post on a post like this, there's no upload photo button, and on the posts where you CAN post a photo, it only lets you put text in the title, it doesn't let you put commentary underneath it... it seems you can only do that if you are an original BP staff member.
This annoys me so much, there have been many times I've wanted to put the caption under photos!
Shortening posts that are made of memes and photos.
Yes, if it's posted with 100 posts, leave it at 100 posts, none of that "Note: this post originally had 53 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.", and click to see the rest.
AITA posts, of course. Listen, we know you need the clicks, but show some respect. Tag them as AITA posts, let us filter that tag out. They're embarrassing.
Being perma banned because of trolls. There is no reprieve or appeal. Why? No one at Bored Panda ever replies to emails. Why?
EVERY single post in the thread by a BP staff (jokes) way to often. To many tattoo threads to.
Those are deffo getting old. Unless there's some spectacle, new tattoo design no one else has ever seen before, like a 3D, holographic ink with led lights and the tattoo looks like it will come to life, then I'm not going to be entertained by another dragon, skull, flower, butterfly, bird, angel wings, mermaid, insect, fairy, sailor, pin-up chick, koi fish tattoo slide after slide.
Posts that are one reddit story (AITA or malicious compliance) rather than a list of stories or pictures on a topic. Also the censorship level is ridiculous.
Why are there so many reddit stories on here?
Not being able to see my comments, or the like notifications not taking me to them either
Same here. They shorten the list after the fact so, your comment and the orginal post is no longer there.
That certain Pandas seem to get a ridiculous number of upvotes for the lamest comments.
I totally approve. Some "pandas" seem to have a popularity contest and win votes for the most dismal comments. It feels like a chat room from the 90s: "I love you!" "No me!" "You're so awesome even though I've never met you in real life! 😍😘 " "Hihi! No you! 😋😘💘❣💕 #love #amour #namaste"
Add a downvote counter next to the upvote one in the profile section.
NO MORE product threads EVER. The Father's Day thread with Amazon links in every single post was the worst.
The handful of posters who. ale everything political, anti-Trump, USA sucks, etc.
Uugh! I saw one once and although I'm not an American, I felt sick to my stomach at so much prejudice and violence. There wasn't even any humour, kind of poking fun at the social clichés about this country, as we've seen for Canada, Australia and Ireland. Come on! Not all Americans are mean!
I hate that some people will troll the answers. Like there was a post I made to submit funny lgbtq+ memes, but there were homophobes and/or trolls who put inappropriate jokes. And the worst part is that I can't delete it.
That one tranphobic ~idiot~ who keeps popping up with different accounts just to annoy the trans... He needs to be boiled ASAP
There is a simple way to stop the tphobes and trolls. Ask them why.
So many MAGAs, transphobic, sexist, entitled folks. It's disgusting.
May I add that people just be nicer all together? Whatever your opinions are I don’t want them shoved in my face. Even if I agree with you. And if I don’t we can still be civilized
I don't want to see any reposted stories, we need original content curated by the community.
Cultivating negativity and fatalism, to full misanthropy
People feeling that is absolutely necessary to express their thoughts using vulgar speech!
Honestly, most things. The only reason I'm still on the site is cause I've got some people who rely on me for support, and it's enough people that j wouldn't be comfortable giving out my number
And to talk to me because I'm awesome and you are very aware of how awesome I am
M Jank
That guy is the worst
Remove all the Karen stories/Reddit reposts and instead prioritize stuff like comics and lists. Except for the reposted AskReddit threads. If I wanted to read AITA threads I'd just go to Reddit!
More cats!!! The interwebs need more cats!!! Everything else is just fluff.
Remove all the Karen stories/Reddit reposts and instead prioritize stuff like comics and lists. Except for the reposted AskReddit threads. If I wanted to read AITA threads I'd just go to Reddit!
More cats!!! The interwebs need more cats!!! Everything else is just fluff.
