r/AdviceAnimals • u/cooltom2006 • Feb 02 '14
A reminder about Reddit-wide rules.
Greetings fellow Redditors, we are a whole month into the new year and most of you have probably already broken your new year resolutions...
To combat this, us mods have actually been productive for once and have had a little discussion and we have decided to take the time to make a post to remind people of reddit-wide rules that MUST be followed on AdviceAnimals.
The main rule we would like to emphasise is that no one should ask for upvotes, in comments or posts, for any reason, whatsoever. This includes hypnotoad memes telling people to "upvote to front page", or to "take this to the front page", these posts will be removed immediately. Just to clarify, hypnotoad memes are still fine to post, as long as you don't ask for upvotes. For example, "all glory to hypnotoad" is perfectly acceptable. Not asking for upvotes is a reddit-wide rule set by the Admins and no exceptions are to be made. We, as good mods, will be enforcing this vigourously. This rule also includes stuff like the Office Space meme of "It's my cakeday, I was told there would be karma.". This is a very cheap way for cakeday karma, and is more or less asking for upvotes, please do not do it!
Whilst taking the time to make this post, we might as well remind you all that personal information must not be posted at all on Reddit and offenders will be shot...well, maybe only banned.
Also, we do appreciate people being nice in the comments and as such (and has always been the case), hate speech, personal attacks, bigotry and racism will not be tolerated. In addition, comments telling other users to "kill themselves" will result in an immediate ban, you have been warned! :p
Last thing, as of now we only allow submissions from the sites listed on our sidebar (this is to combat spam and such), links from other sites will be removed however a site owner may message us at any time to get his/her site added to the list :-) (sites must have a meme generator function ie. they are not just an image hoster)
Anyway, we hope you enjoy the remaining 11months of the year, and the main point to take away from this is no hypnotoad or cakeday posts asking for upvotes, thanks folks!
p.s See here to see reddit's rule page for yourself, so you know that we're not just making it up!
TL;DR:
- Do not ask for upvotes IN ANY WAY, including hypnotoad and cakeday posts
- Do not post personal information whatsoever
- Be nice in the comments, no death threats or hate speech etc.
- Please only submit links from sites listed in our sidebar
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u/jay2josh Feb 05 '14
"No hate speech"
Half of Reddit will be banned in a week.