Hello everyone,

The moderation team is addressing the current state of discourse in this subreddit involving political threads. We try to limit stepping up how we moderate as often as we can, but in past instances like the overturning of Roe v Wade we have had to make temporary changes to the rules. Today, that is happening again. There has been an increase in rule breaking and hostility given the topics at hand. There have also been an influx of new troll accounts to the point Reddit has been taking action and sitewide banning some accounts and removing comments.

We are going to be giving less warnings about rule violations in any thread that is political. This includes but is not limited to the examples below. The subreddit had requested previously that people be free to comment negative things, that is changing in any political based conversation for the time being.

Examples of what we will be increasing moderation on.

• Name calling against other users (ie, Fascist, Nazi, Libtard, derogatory slurs and more.)
• Referring to abortion as Baby killers, murders, etc
• Bigotry against the LGBTQ community
• Accounts with negative karma
• New accounts violating the rules
• Accounts with previous warnings for rule violations

The moderation team will attempt to warn users before resorting to bans but may resort to a ban as a first action. If you have questions or concerns, please ask them.

The moderation team also wants to also clearly and emphatically state, we support LGBTQ Rights and we support Women's Rights. This subreddit will not be tolerating incivility towards either of these topics.