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We Were Hilariously Wrong
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In March 2023, the mod team here at r/Reformed hosted a suggestions thread for our annual April Fool's Day prank. In fact, this thread was a honeypot to gather all users who had a sense of humor and give them 1-day bans on April 1st concurrent with our announcement of the new Rule 10: Keep Content Sober.

u/partypastor also "stepped down" publicly as a known proponent of jokes and funny memes who could no longer in good conscience moderate a community that has officially banned humor.

After receiving 1 negative response to this new rule for approximately every 299 positive responses, we took a look at our motives and also finally cleaned off the Dorito dust that had heretofore obscured Proverbs 17:22 in u/JCmathetes's copy of the Heirloom ESV Permanent Text Edition bound in Antique Dolphin Skin, and realized that humor and laughter do in fact have a place in Reformed communities. A very small, dark, and dank place which is mostly covered in cobwebs, and where we send one of the Ortlunds to spray Lysol every couple of years, whenever they take a 5-minute break from the Crossway new release schedule.

As of the Second of April, in the Year of Our Lord 2023, Rule 10 is rescinded, u/partypastor is restored, the quarterly Meme Jubilee is reinstated, the hard line to u/Anti-MirthBot has been cut, and the Frozen Chosen of r/Reformed are permitted slight degrees of thawing every once in a while as long as all things are done decently and in order at the appointed seasons, and out of good and necessary consequence derived from the Scriptures alone.

See you again in a few weeks when we hit 50,000 subscribers. Thank you all for your incredible participation, and in some cases incredibly fun responses when you thought the joke was serious. We love you all with the love which the Father has lavished on us all in the Beloved.

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