Edit: As of 1/2/2024, the rules vacation has ended. Back to business as usual.

We will be collecting feedback on this sometime during early January. See this post for details.

As things currently stand, we get maybe 200 user reports a month. That accounts for about 0.0001% of posts and comments that get submitted here. We'd like to see those numbers get much higher.

Here's reddit's instructions for reporting posts and comments. We will be working on video demonstrations for Android and iOS.

Original Post

Ho, ho, ho brains! Santa Shark here with an important announcement: from now until Jan 1, 2024, we are suspending rules 2, 5, 6, and 12 in AutoModerator, and will not be proactively enforcing them ourselves. We will only be responding to reports from you, the users.

We've heard your complaints that it's too hard to post or comment here, that we're too strict on what topics are and aren't allowed. In the spirit of the season, we're giving you (and ourselves) a much-needed break.

What does this mean?

General

• Image and link posts are now enabled for all users.

Rule 2

• No more being redirected to megathreads.
• Ask all the "Does Anyone Else" and "Am I the Asshole?"-type posts you want.
• Make posts as long or as short as you see fit.

Rule 5

You can now discuss:

• Religious and New Age practices (astrology, indigo children, crystal healing, Tarot, Ayurveda, reiki, faith healing)
• Binaural beats
• Figures like Dr. K and Andrew Huberman
• MBTI and other personality models

Rule 6

Topics back on the table:

• Did you know people with ADHD are actually just remnant hunters among a species of farmers?
• How awesome hyperfocus is
• Is ADHD actually the next stage of human evolution?
• Society is the one who sucks
• Why ADHD isn't a disorder, actually

Rule 12

• Neurodiversity's back on the menu, boys!
• So are ChatGPT and AI.

Exceptions

• We still have to uphold Reddit Content Policy, and we will do so
• Racism/white nationalism/alt right politics/misogyny/rapist & human trafficking apologetics are still banned. That means no NoFap, Jordan Peterson, Andrew Tate, Sam Harris, or any of that shit.
• We will act on anything we think poses a near-future safety issue.