Though I've been on Reddit for far too many years...I do not know everything. I'm open to discuss why, but...

If your post or comment is literally low effort, explained below, it will likely be filtered by Reddit, Automod, or any Mod. Many scammers and lazy attempts to meetup, are very hard to tell which is a real person. One out of maybe 20-30 low effort comments, the commenter will chime in that they are real.

If you say "DMed", "DMed You", "DM Me", or anything similar, not just limited to DMs, will more than likely be filtered out and removed. Some low effort comments do make sense and are caught in the mix, such as "Location?", just write a reasonable sentence, "What is your location? It's not included." I don't expect anyone to recite the rules, lol.

For starters, just DM OP. Done. Save yourselves the time and hassle. Worried they might be a scammer? Look at their profile.

• First hint: Multi month/year old account, but all posts/comments are <1 week. Commonly I've seen <1 day of all posts/comments, on a two year old account.

• Second, comments, if they have no comments, they could have 50 posts but 0 comments, or, their comments look canned or copy/pasted, they are not interested in the human element to chat and meetup, it's something else, usually financial.

• Third, not seen on "old" reddit's interface, the profile bio, read it! if they mention they are traveling from another country, or mentioning any other chat/social/financial platform, avoid! Other subreddits this might be fine and accepted, not here, it's commonly seen as a scammer pattern. We're not here for advertising one's services/products.

• Fourth, age of the account. If their account is brand spanking new, <1 month, I'm not saying avoid, but be very cautious. We do not permit these due to how easy it is for a scammer, or malicious user, to create and "verify" their account, just to do who knows what damage, and leave. Over half of the posts removed due to <30days old, the account itself is removed within 24-48hours, by Reddit or otherwise.

If your post/comment is removed due to age, just message the mods, and we'll accept it. So long as it meets the rules and not "low effort".

• Lastly Fifth, very poor writing style. If the post is full of typos, cryptic typing to bypass filters, struggling grammar, all signs of a scammer. I don't know where or why "am a woman looking for guy" is ever accepted, and drives me nuts when someone says "Am" instead of "I'm" lol.

We're open to discuss and to an extent revise how we filter out scammers.