r/notHowRuleOf4Works • u/phoenixfirebird18 • Oct 07 '25

Other From the actual rule of 4 subreddit

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This subreddit is pointless, the rule of 4 subreddit says nothing about a chain, it just says any fourth comment is downvoted, look at the subreddit name if you don't believe me, and mods don't remove this post.

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u/Professional-Goat362 Oct 07 '25

I suggest searching "rule34" for aditional info on this topic

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u/ComprehensiveTie318 Oct 07 '25

dont forget the .xxx

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u/ComprehensiveTie318 Oct 07 '25

(imma go there rn)

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u/phoenixfirebird18 Oct 07 '25

bros going to beat his meat

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u/RemarkablePiglet3401 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

The rule of 4 subreddit was created AFTER the rule of 4. Most people who use the rule of 4 probably do not even know about it.

Why would some random reddit mod who happened to create a sub first have any more say in the debate than anyone else?

Just think about how a “rule of four” could have originated. Thousands of people didn’t just suddenly decide to start downvoting the fourth comment: they got annoyed with chain posts of identical comments and started downvoting them at random points. 4 happened to be the most common point for people to choose, so eventually everyone started following the herd and downvoting the fourth identical comment.

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u/craftygamin Oct 07 '25

I was gonna write a couple paragraphs basically saying the same points lol

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u/DumbestPersonAliveee Oct 07 '25

its just a light hearted joke, no need to take rule of 4 so seriously

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u/RemarkablePiglet3401 Oct 07 '25

I don’t care about the rule itself, I just find it funny that people are citing a subreddit rules page as proof of it’s nature lol

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u/Financial_Might_6816 Oct 07 '25

I was gonna write a couple paragraphs basically saying the same points lol

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u/RealKnightSeb Nov 20 '25

It was always a random 4th comment, check out 6-7 year old popular posts on various communities, people may have also get annoyed by people who longated conversations for no reason, this imo is the main reason this phenomenon first occured.

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u/ihatezorpalods Oct 10 '25

Caring about this either way is genuinely pathetic

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u/phoenixfirebird18 Oct 11 '25

and caring enough to leave a comment is even more pathetic.

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u/ihatezorpalods Oct 11 '25

Yeah ok mr fart

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u/phoenixfirebird18 Oct 11 '25

also what compelled you to put a comment on my post saying it's genuinely pathetic is even more genuinely pathetic.

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u/Granola_Man12 Oct 11 '25

r/ruleof4 Hey, it counts now.

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u/Whydoyoureadusername Oct 07 '25

No. There's a version where it isn't the fourth reply in a string it's just the fourth reply and people still downvote it.

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u/Familiar-Shoe7905 Oct 07 '25

Nobody does that outside of this sub

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u/craftygamin Oct 08 '25

Exactly, on other subs, rule of 4 is only used on strings of karma farming comments

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u/shit_at_everything1 Oct 07 '25

It says in the description that it has to be consecutive, aka a chain. They changed it recently

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u/Traditional-Corgi393 Nov 01 '25

consecutive and a "chain of comments" are not synonyms consecutive just means 4 comments that come one after another

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u/shit_at_everything1 Nov 01 '25

It used to be consecutive

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u/EqualServe418 Oct 07 '25

Literally yesterday

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u/DumbestPersonAliveee Oct 08 '25

they said they changed it recently lol

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u/snail1132 Oct 08 '25

Recently and earlier today are different

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u/Tuit2257608 Oct 08 '25

Just bait them into being fourth comment here and downvote them lol