We just got our first warning from the admins

We have been aware since pretty much the start of this subreddit that the admins are keeping an eye on us.

Yesterday we got our first warning about violent content and doxxing.

In mod mail they wrote us the following:

Hi all,

We’ve detected an uptick of policy-violative content being posted in your community specific to our rule against violence. This rule states: “Do not post content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual (including oneself) or a group of people.”

It’s important to remove content that violates this rule in your community. This includes calls to murder, kill, maim, or otherwise harm another person. Using code words, creative phrases, or claiming something is a joke/satire to obfuscate the intent of a comment or post is also not allowed.

It’s okay for users to engage in discourse and criticism, including harsh criticism, but it is not okay for users to glorify, incite, or call for violence or death. If you see this behavior taking place in your community, take steps to ensure it does not continue and report it.

Also be mindful of our rules regarding personal information and doxing. Generally news articles are allowable on Reddit, but trying to hunt down further information about people’s personal lives and families or making calls to harass those people, show up at their homes, etc… is not allowed.

This is why the mod team has tried to be strict when it comes to violence and doxxing. Along with brigading, they are the three most common ways for subreddits to get shut down.

Just to be clear on the way we enforce these two rules.

When it comes to advocating for violence, it doesn't go by what you meant. It goes by how the admins can interpret your comment or posts. If the mods look at it, and think that the admins can interpret it as violence we will treat it as advocating for violence.

This includes dog whistles, code words, talking about the 2nd Amendment, talking about the punishment for treason, Nintendo characters and any other way people might think they can get away with advocating for violence.

The rules for doxxing seem to have changed a bit recently on reddit.

Do not post personal phone numbers, home addresses, personal emails, resumes, medical records, school records, or any other information that you wouldn't expect to see in a news article.

The admins are now removing comments or posts that mention the names of the Musk Youth that are wreaking havoc in DC. So the mods of the subreddit will be doing the same.

Going forward, we will not be giving warning to most people who post content that is either advocating for violence or doxxing. Instead we will be giving out either temp bans or permanent bans, depending on the severity of the rule breaking content. Repeat offenders will get permanent bans.

We don't want to be jerks about this, but the goal of the mod team is to keep the subreddit open and functional.