We've been seeing a lot of comments and posts begging, lately, so I just wanted to refresh everyone on our first, and arguably most important, rule. Rule 1 states:

Do not beg for anything on this subreddit. e.g.

Reddit Awards

Upvotes

Money

Physical items

Gift cards

etc..

Challenges requesting donations to charities / non-for-profits may be exceptions.

This rule extends to private messages to community members (regardless of platform), and username mentions.

We have a strict ban on challenges such as "Give me gold and I will give you platinum". If you see a challenge like this, report it immediately. It is a scam.

So let's go over this one more time: don't beg! Don't pretend or joke or mess around with it, just don't.

I was just joking/it was a joke/can't you take a joke?/mods have no sense of humor, etc.

In order for us to find something humorous, it has to be funny. Begging isn't. You're not cute, you're not funny, you're tired and old just like that "joke".

I didn't know it was a rule!

It's not on us to read the rules for you before you post. When we can literally quote your post or comment in a rule we created in March of 2019, you know you're unoriginal.

I've seen it before on the sub, why are you banning me for something that everyone does?

No one does it and gets away with it, you won't either. If a Moderator or Helper doesn't catch it, the users will (because most of them are as sick of it as we are). We have a zero tolerance policy. It doesn't matter if you're a regular in the sub, it doesn't matter how many coins you bring here, it doesn't matter if you think you're entitled to a rule exception (you're not), it doesn't matter how bad off you think this sub would be without you, don't do it.

Just don't.

Effective immediately, we are upping our minimal ban to 14 days for anyone caught begging, with the option to go up to a permaban if we think it's necessary.

Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.