May 31, 2024 Reddit inc. turned off the NSFW flag and permanently disabled it for this community.  This was done with no communication to the mod team, or to the community in general.  This has caused a few issues over the past week as the freshly activated spam filter and crowd control are being overly zealous, clashing with our in-house automoderator, and removing posts and comments that we wouldn’t otherwise remove.

With no other information available, we assume that this was done at the request of AI farms who want access to the community.  So, going forward, understand that EVERYTHING that you have posted or will post here is fodder for a learning model.  Given some of the comments and advice that shows up here, that will be interesting.

Moving forward, as this change was mandated by reddit, against our better judgment, we expect the general tone in the community to remain as it always has been, and what you might expect to hear in any welding or fab shop.  We will still not allow racist, homophobic comments, or general bigotry but pretty much anything else is fair game.  Limit politics as much as possible, because no one wants to deal with that shit and this is a community for discussing welding, fabricating and shooting the shit in the shop off hours.

Please bear with us while we fine tune things.  If anyone would like to volunteer to help moderate the community, send us a message and we can talk.