Due to an ever increasing amount of spammers, ban evaders, throwaway accounts, etc. that continue to break rules, we have decided to implement new requirements for karma and account age. While we would prefer not to have to do this, the mods here (who are VOLUNTEERS, we get paid nothing for doing this) have been spending far too many hours removing comments, posts and handling reports and modmail.

It is not only unfair to us, but quite frankly rather disrespectful the number of users of this sub that break rule after rule, then yell and scream at us in modmail when you get banned...we make the rules simple to understand and even have a sticky highlighting the most common issues...yet we spend hours a day dealing with issues and banning accounts. As the good majority of accounts that get banned are new or lower karma accounts, we are now implementing a filter to weed out these users.

Therefore, effective immediately, the following requirement is in place for all posts and comments:

-Accounts must have at least 150 combined karma points and be at least 45 days old to post or comment here.

We will tweak this as needed going forward. As always, all other rules remain in effect.