upvoting because i too want to see more true onion-y posts here even if it means fewer posts overall. the almost onion-y posts tend to not be funny at all, just pure depressing irony, and amass votes in a circle jerk nature, essentially making this another news sub as OP notes.

i get that “truth is stranger than fiction” but that doesn’t mean that the every time the steady progression of the west into fascism is recorded to the media it needs to be posted here. and also it’s excessively us-centric which is both boring for americans and unwelcoming to a global audience.

Look, it's not the community's fault that reality is oniony!

Thanks for bringing this up.

I didn't notice until you pointed it out, because I usually browse my feed as a whole, without checking which community each post comes from. Now that I look at this community alone, I see a bunch of news posts that don't belong here, just you described. No wonder my feed has been so thick with doom lately.

I'll try to pay more attention and report these posts (rule 4 or 2) when I think of it.

You weren't kidding.

Trump falsely claims he never called for Hillary Clinton to be locked up

How is this NotTheOnion-appropriate in any way?

Hey, I try to keep a hands-off approach to modding as much as possible, but you're right, this has indeed gotten out of control.

I'd appreciate it if people would report posts that don't belong here more, because otherwise I'm not likely to see them until they've already gathered a ton of comments, and I'm hesitant to remove posts at that point.

So... Thanks for posting about this.

If you report ones that are just news they do seem to be taken down though.

A big issue is about half of everything trump says could easily be the onion. Which is likely why there's so many political ones.

One of the states said people don't have the right to vote. That sounds insanely oniony.

There was one about 40% of family homes being owned by corperations. Again that could easily be an exaggerated and ridiculous thing.

So I think there's some personal interpretation.

I think 70% of the recent posts seem onion-y or would be if it were claiming any other person except a handful of people who regularly say things that I'd have assumed were the Onion pre-Trump.

The Onion has generally been political, with a bias towards US politics, and Not the Onion is for news... so the posts should generally be political news mixed with some lighthearted nonsense news.

Also, one of the less oniony stories is one I upvoted without realizing where it was posted just because it seemed funny and it was one of the non-political news stories.

Between this community and the actual Onion I get pretty much the gist of current events, yeah. If some topic or other piques my interest from here, I'll chase it down. The Onion and its opposite tend to give me enough of the context I need to figure out what's important enough to pursue vs the vast majority of quasi-satire hitting "normal" news cycles over a given week.

It's like a hyper-curated way to get my news, as if handpicked for me by a space clown. And I like it that way.

I really gotta setup a filter to block all fuckerburg pawns

It should probably be up to the posters and those voting on the posts instead of one person complaining about their idea of this community's purity not being followed