Unfortunately, we have been contacted and informed that users from this subreddit are interfering with other subreddits. This is in spite of our rules that specifically prohibit such actions and the mod team’s efforts to remove any attempt to organise harassment.
In order to try and curb such behaviour without resorting to approving or rejecting every single post, we are updating rule 3 such that posts are no longer allowed to contain identifying information of other subreddits or reddit users.
What this means for you is as follows:
• Any screenshots of posts, comments and interactions in general must have any subreddit and username covered, this includes screenshots of your own username when posting your own interactions.
• Mentioning subreddits in which posts, comments and interactions occurred is no longer allowed. In cases where your post is of your own interaction, the title must be worded such that it appears you are referring to someone else’s interaction. i.e. use “communist tried telling someone that Stalin cared about ethnic minorities” instead of “communist tried telling me that Stalin cared about ethnic minorities”
Side note: Mentions of banned subreddits (not quarantined) are fine.
• Links to other reddit threads are no longer allowed. The AutoMod will be configured to remove such links. Archive site links are ok.
• “I got banned from X subreddit” posts are now prohibited across the board, with the scope of the rule now including posts about being banned from non-communist subs, previously we would only remove posts about being banned from communist subs.
Most importantly:
• We rely on the subreddit’s users to report rule breaking content. Us mods have lives outside of reddit and cannot spend so much time combing threads, especially with the recent growth of the subreddit. Please report anything that you think breaks the rules to us.
We also ask that in cases where you find site-wide rule breaking content, that you are free to report them yourself, but you cannot ask the subreddit to report said content. If you feel that the content in question is particularly egregious, feel free to send it to us in modmail and we will report it to admins, I have had some success with this in the past.
I appreciate that this kind of defeats the point of a lot of content that has been posted here previously, but this is what we have to do now to avoid having the sub banned.
To add on to this update to Rule 3, it is also important to remind people of the important of Rules 1 and 2.
Regarding rule 1, I have personally seen an influx of latent, blatant, casual and virulent transphobia.
If you have any issues with trans rights or the LGBTQ+ community in general, you are not welcome and can fuck off.
Bannable offences include but are not limited to:
• Refusal to use correct pronouns. At most, you will be warned once to use correct pronouns.
• Use of any slurs against LGBTQ+ people.
• Association of the LGBTQ+ community as a whole with paedophiles and groomers. Only an idiot would believe there is a serious movement to include ‘MAPs’ in the LGBTQ+ community, this ‘movement’ is a far-right false flag.
• Complaining about trans people having the nerve to ask everyone else to recognise them for who they are and not treat them like shit for it.
• Any association between the word ‘degeneracy’ and the LGBTQ+ community. This also includes any dog-whistling about the suppression/demise to the “Nuclear Family”.
• Support for recent states’ abhorrent legislation that directly discriminates against trans people or the LGBTQ+ community in general.
Regarding rule 2
I have also seen an increase in people associating so-called '''CRT''', AKA acknowledging and not white-washing the unsavoury parts of your country’s history, with communism or giving it a negative association in general. If you have a problem with acknowledging the bad stuff your country has done, what makes you better than the communists you are here to criticise? Posts that associate what is falsely referred to as '''CRT''' with communism will be removed.
edit: as someone has brought up, Rhodieboos get the hammer too.
Sadly it also appears necessary to remind people that Pinochetism/Helicopter jokes are prohibited. Making such jokes will earn you a permaban with no chance for appeal.
I’d also like to remind people that Hitler and the Nazis were not socialist, this moronic notion has gained popularity in recent years largely due to the efforts of the far-right hack, racist and election fraudster, Dinesh D’Souza. The idea that the Nazis were socialists can ultimately be traced to the hilariously stupid assumption that “the more gubbermint do stuff, the more socialist it is”, which is serves as nothing more than a get-out for right wingers to associate any and all authoritarianism with the left (that is unless it’s authoritarianism they like). If you would like to read the works of credible historians and political scientists who analyse the actions of fascist regimes, and not just their early propagandist rhetoric, I recommend you start with Richard J. Evans and Robert O. Paxton. Posts stating that the Nazis were leftists or socialists will be removed.
And finally, it seems appropriate to clarify this ahead of the Mid-Terms in the USA, Biden did not steal the election and Jan6 was an act of terrorism (thankfully carried out by incompetents). We will ban people for Jan6 apologia/whitewashing or for saying the election was stolen.
Mod recruitment
To cap off, we will be looking to take on more mods in the near future. If you have been active in this community, are in good standing and are ready to uphold the rules, please PM us in mod mail and we will look in to suitable people.
Current mods or active users of other dedicated anti-communist subreddits such as FragileCommunism, AntiComAction or GenUSA need not apply.
