So recently we had a thread blow up where the OP encouraged everyone to ask a question, OP would answer, and the user asking the question would go in to edit their question to make it funnier.

And it got out of hand.

This isn’t the first time this has happened, and we’ve had to come in and clean up one hell of a mess. Speaking as Redditors ourselves, we’re not really fans of censoring ideas or thoughts or other users when it comes down to things we don’t agree with or don’t like. We censor posts that violate our community’s rules (because that’s what moderators do) and we put those rules to a community discussion, we don’t arbitrarily make them up.

In some subreddits, it may be acceptable to be sexually explicit, hateful, bigoted, racist, transphobic, homophobic or inhumane. This is not one of those subreddits. Seeing as how we do have a rule in place that addresses this (rule 3) voted on by the community, this should not be a surprise to ANYONE. We'll be watching this more closely and handing out bans as necessary.

So we’re going to ask you, as Redditors, as humans, to really think about what you’re posting in this subreddit. We get that it’s the internet, and that anonymity is part of the appeal, we totally understand. We need you to be better than that.

Some subreddits are just places to shitpost, they’re awesome for that. We’re a community. We have users we interact with on the regular, we see EVERY (and I mean every) post that comes through, and try to catch problematic posts before they become huge problems. We want this to be a fun place where you can earn internet points and awards alike.

Please be better than this, /r/goforgold. Help us out. We've stated several times before, we genuinely care about this place.

All the love in our golden hearts,
The Moderators