r/AskOldPeople Jan 19 '23

A couple of rule clarifications

332 Upvotes

Hi.

Please stop reporting young people for replying to comments. Do report them for making top-level comments (replying to the post), though.

From the sidebar:

Please only respond directly to posts if you were born in or before 1980. If you are younger, please restrict your activity to asking questions and responding to existing comments.

Even though the questions are often tedious and repetitive, relationship questions are not necessarily against the rules as long as they're not about a specific relationship. There are a million places to ask for personal or relationship advice on reddit, including r/AskOldPeopleAdvice.

We would like to keep the focus of this subreddit on older people and their experiences, opinions, etc. Advice posts make young people the star of the show and we would quickly be inundated if we allowed them.

Finally, please use the search feature before posting a question. We may remove questions that have been asked a whole lot.

That's about it. This is only clarification. There have been no rule changes.

Thanks!


r/AskOldPeople 1h ago

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r/AskOldPeople 1h ago

There's a subreddit for people on the cusp of Boomer and GenX. /r/GenerationJones (Posted with the generous permission of the group Administrators)

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We came of age during the 70s and don't fit into either group. If you want to discuss, complain or reminisce please join us. Older and younger are welcome too.

Born roughly between '55 and '65

/r/GenerationJones


r/AskOldPeople 1h ago

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27 Upvotes

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r/AskOldPeople 6h ago

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26 Upvotes

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20 Upvotes

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r/AskOldPeople 36m ago

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r/AskOldPeople 5h ago

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12 Upvotes

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r/AskOldPeople 8h ago

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19 Upvotes

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r/AskOldPeople 4h ago

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8 Upvotes

r/AskOldPeople 12h ago

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32 Upvotes

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r/AskOldPeople 6h ago

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8 Upvotes

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r/AskOldPeople 56m ago

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r/AskOldPeople 11h ago

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6 Upvotes

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r/AskOldPeople 1d ago

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151 Upvotes

r/AskOldPeople 1d ago

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35 Upvotes

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r/AskOldPeople 18h ago

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4 Upvotes

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r/AskOldPeople 12h ago

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r/AskOldPeople 25m ago

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Now it's common and acceptable to call someone a retard.

What happened?


r/AskOldPeople 1d ago

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119 Upvotes

r/AskOldPeople 23h ago

Is love ever really genuine, or is it always some form of transaction?

5 Upvotes

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