Good day, everyone.

As many of you have noticed over the last...several years...our community receives a number of posts from individuals regarding their personal identities. From DNA tests to blood quantum to white passing to Mestizo, the list is quite long.

While the moderators are currently working on some things to address these issues (FAQ entries, potential roundup threads, further community input about rules), we have heard how tiresome these questions are getting for our community members.

For an indefinite amount of time, we are instituting a moratorium on identity-related discussion posts. To be more specific, here are some examples of the types of posts we will not allow for the time being:

• Posts that inquire about the validity of a person's DNA test results
• Posts that seek validation for their unconfirmed Native ancestry
• Posts that desire genealogical research assistance
• Posts that include lengthy personal stories about distant Indigenous ancestors

We know that for some people, asking these questions is a deep personal matter and that it isn't always easy to work up the courage to post to this forum. For those sincere individuals out there, please know that we will provide assistance through the aforementioned resources we're currently working on. But this moratorium will be broadly applied.

The moderators will implement some rules with automoderator and submission notifications to help us filter out these types of posts for the duration of the moratorium. Should any of these posts make it past our filters, please report them so we may locate them quickly. There is a chance that we may make an exception depending on the content of the post or that some posts might be flagged as false positives. For any inquiries about exceptions, mistakenly removed posts, or general details of this policy, please contact us via modmail. This moratorium will be included on our policies page and be listed as a new rule.

qe'ci'yew'yew (thank you).

Edit: Congrats to our sub for passing 40,000 subscribers too!