Updates on the sub

Hey all, I hope everyone is enjoying their Friday and ready to get into the weekend. I wanted to give everyone a new stickied post to look at to discuss some changes with the sub.

It’s no secret that a few weeks ago was kind of a mess, and I wanted to share some of the behind the scenes stuff that not everyone saw. Obviously, it started with a post involving a Red Bull and a gun, and from there, it went downhill. I left up the post regarding my “hate” for guns in the sub because I felt it was important to be open about it. I have no issues with them, but at the end of the day, this is an energy drink sub and I’d like to keep it that way. With that, please go look at the new sets of rules that are more specific regarding potentially controversial topics in the sub.

Anyways, this leads into the behind the scenes stuff. That decision I made caused some banned individuals go create a new sub, and then they proceeded to go through multiple different subs to form a raid against our sub. This unfortunately went into the cesspool that is the caffeine subreddit. The amount of posts and comments that those people made over here caused me to change the safety settings of our sub to have myself manually approve almost anything new getting posted. In that time of a few days, I deleted close to 100 comments and posts and banned close to 50 people brigading the sub. I reported multiple people openly planning this sub amongst multiple subs as well as people DMing me some not so fun things. Reddit admins eventually got back to me about accounts they took action and the other subreddits’ mods also actively stood with us to prevent the brigading. Because of this, there is now a zero tolerance policy for anyone who is brigading this sub. You will get banned, end of story.

I don’t want this openness to lead to any further action or any potential brigading on our end. I simply wanted to let you all know the craziness that happened.

A couple of things I’ve been noticing as well is a misuse of the Red Bull Insider Insight flair. Please refrain from using this unless it’s some kind of breaking news from actual employees of RBNA or a 3rd party distributor.

On the positive side though, the sub is growing at a phenomenal rate, and I couldn’t be happier seeing so many people celebrate the best damn energy drink on the planet! Additionally, if you have any ideas that you’d like to implement on the sub, please either DM me or make a post about them! I love feedback and it only increases the involvement of the community!