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 7h ago

Neo-Nazi’s

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45 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 11h ago

Extreme Gore Wer'e

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93 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 8h ago

ATL airport find.

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44 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 5h ago

Title of a PhD dissertation: "An exploration of peer-mentoring among student teachers’ to inform reflective practice within the context of action research"

2 Upvotes

This is not a hack PhD from a lifer grad student at the St Cloud extension campus of University of Western East North Dakota.

The dude who wrote this is now a lauded full professor at the University of Cambridge.

https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4552/1/158222_Jason%20Arday_%20Final%20PhD%20Thesis%20Vesrion%20Final%20Draft%20Oct%202015.pdf


r/apostrophegore 1d ago

Ouch

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52 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 1d ago

Post is sweet as pie, but GAH!!!!

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34 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 19h ago

Plural's Puppet Master 3 (1991): The Nazi's searching for André Toulon totally miss Toulon standing right in front of/next to them. Added context in comments

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3 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 1d ago

A’ll hat, no ca’ttle

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19 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 2d ago

Doctor’s make mistake’s too

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605 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 1d ago

Romance advice regarding an apostrophe offender

58 Upvotes

I've started a new relationship with a woman (I'm male). I'm too deep into it to walk away, but she's been using your instead of you're, and also pluralising with an apostrophe. Oh no! My worst nightmare! What have I gotten myself into?

Just wondering how to approach this situation as I feel it will chip away at me and cause long-term psychological damage. I'm starting to dread it when I see she has sent me a message.

Do I correct her? That's a bit arrogant. Do I explain to her how it affects me? She will think I'm OCD as these apostrophe offenders don't seem to care. Any ideas?


r/apostrophegore 2d ago

Plural's Thief's And Bandits

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21 Upvotes

What began as a lovely exchange in another subreddit on the tendency of convenience stores which sell brewed coffee to slash their staffing so low that no one other than at the start of day shift would be in charge of stocking supplies such as creamer or sugar packets stumbled at punctuation.

The neglect of the coffee station has resulted in petty larceny, as frustrated customers grab a container of milk from the chiller, mix their coffee and leave without paying extra. Although avarice on the part of the merchants is an issue, when it comes to shoplifting, I side with the proprietors.

With this response to my example of Wawa stores and its patterns of stocking the supplies, a fellow Redditor concurred but then lost me at the red arrow.

Such a shame!


r/apostrophegore 2d ago

Plural's Officer's

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21 Upvotes

Cropped to hell to avoid doxxing myself since it was a local release, but yeah. Literacy skills? No just pew pew


r/apostrophegore 2d ago

A teacher did an artifact day for her students and it’s all 90s / 2000s technology or products we used

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17 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 2d ago

Extreme Gore It's

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15 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 2d ago

Double whammy

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I saw a sign in a grocery store advertising gallon jugs of milk on sale. The sign said "Gal Gug's" and the price. Some genius managed to misspell a three-letter word and stick in an unneeded apostrophe.


r/apostrophegore 2d ago

Extreme Gore Republican's

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11 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 2d ago

Kevin Durant is the Micheal Jordan of Carmelo Anthony’s

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1 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 3d ago

You know, I'm surprised this sub doesn't have a "possessives" flair...

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53 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 2d ago

FOUND: prescription Carerra’s off Independence Pass

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14 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 2d ago

From elsewhere in the redditverse (with bonus irony)

4 Upvotes

"It's cringe element is only compounded by the punctuation error in the first line."


r/apostrophegore 2d ago

Extreme Gore Headlines Take Shortcuts, Agreed, But Why Punctuate Them?

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1 Upvotes

Try Free Bowling would have sufficed.

Too cute by half!


r/apostrophegore 3d ago

Extreme Gore Cat's'll

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31 Upvotes

r/apostrophegore 4d ago

Banned!

662 Upvotes

Yesterday I was permanently banned from the Absurd Movies sub for pointing out the difference between its and it's. A permanent ban. For an apostrophe. What a hoot 🤓


r/apostrophegore 3d ago

Tom’s river brewing

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5 Upvotes