Was toasting a hot crossed bun and the power tripped, turned out a raisin had shorted against the toaster element

Must have been a fault currant

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👤︎ u/adwyle
📅︎ Jun 18 2019
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r/dadjokes is recruiting moderators, join us!

Update: Thanks for all your applications! Give /u/parin89 and I a few days to take a look and confer!
(if you haven't put your application in yet, you've still got time)

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Greetings /r/dadjokes subscribers,

Years have passed since this sub started up, and there are now literally millions of you. Whoa.

Two million people is just two many two handle for two moderators. Especially these days, when both /u/parin89 and I have two many other responsibilities and a whole lot less time. I'm 200% sure most of you would agree that more mods are needed.

So we're looking for 5 more moderators to get involved. If you're keen to apply, read the rest of this post and answer the three questions in your comment response.

Answer these 3 questions in your reply:

  1. How would you describe a dad joke?
  2. Do you currently moderate any other subreddits? If yes, which ones.
  3. You see a post that is not breaking the rules or reddit's posting guidelines, but is generally disliked by the community. What do you do?

Only apply if:

  • You're a reasonable, fair-minded and patient human
  • You're in it to keep this community a happy, friendly and safe place for other humans
  • You've got previous mod experience from a decent sized community (let's say... 5k+)
  • You're cool with the first few months being a trial run
  • You understand that while we could use more active moderation, and would benefit from a few more rules, one of the things that makes this community great is that it's pretty open (after all, dad jokes repeat a lot and not every "repost" is necessarily an opportunistic attempt to game karma)

We'd benefit from a few practical things as well, it would be great if:

  • You live in a timezone that covers off either the USA, the UK, Australia (we'd like a spread)
  • You've got some automod experience
  • You've got some sub-customisation experience

Don't apply if:

  • You're ready to come out swinging with a power tripping ban hammer
  • You're more concerned about Internet points than real people

We'll leave this stickied for a week and then come back to message a few people and make some selections.

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👤︎ u/tali3sin
📅︎ Oct 14 2019
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I am trading in my sailboat for a motor boat.

I need to go on a power trip.

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👤︎ u/khendron
📅︎ Jul 05 2020
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I lost electricity at home yesterday.

I think my house is on a power trip.

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👤︎ u/Datolite7
📅︎ Jun 02 2020
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I had a dream I had 1 infinity stone

Oh boy that was a power trip

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👤︎ u/Duck7Man
📅︎ Jun 16 2019
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I love the fleeting second of shock you get when you stumble over an extension cord.

Seriously, what a power trip.

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Subreddit Changes

Recently, we had a hostile power takeover. A new mod got power hungry and went on a nice little editing spree.

Pics of carnage: Here

He/she has been banned from the subreddit, and submissions are back to normal.

I somehow ended up as the lackey here, and I've never been a subreddit mod before, so bear with me. I've put things back to their defaults, so submissions can resume normally.


##Tl;dr guy goes on power trip, he's gone, things back to normal, I have no clue what I'm doing.

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👤︎ u/KetoSaiba
📅︎ Apr 08 2014
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If space is a vacuum,

how come nobody has tripped over the power cord?

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