Hey y’all!! I hope this finds everyone on the most beautiful day.

As we approach 125,000 members (wtf lol) I feel that I need to clean up the sub a bit. We have a few items to address in this post: 1) shoplifting vs proplifting, 2) What to do about this when you think you see it, 3) automod!, and 4) questions, comments, and concerns!

1. things have been getting... blurry recently as far as theft vs proplifting so I want to clear up some things:

Stealing from any live plant, feature, or arrangement is theft no matter how you slice it. If you don’t have explicit permission to take something, that is theft. Please stop doing this. It is borderline traumatic when people take care of living things and someone steals from them. Would you walk up to a dog with scissors and take a clump or fur? Hopefully not. Even if it’s a shitty big box store, you need to ask for permission to take things away without paying for them. Absolutely NO taking from live plants even if they’re in bad condition. Buy the plant if you want the plant. I feel like I cover this every few months so I’ll leave that be.

EDIT: it is generally uncool to lift from local nurseries at all. Many of them prop for their stock. For sure for sure ask at a proper nursery and accept a no if you get it!!!

1. What to do if you see this behavior in the sub:

REPORT IT. Please do not call out users—let us do that shit work. It lowers the quality of the sub when every post has people accusing OP of being a thief. Let me take care of it. There will be a new rule in effect until we see the sub clean up a bit about fresh cuts, which is if I ask about a lift in private, if you do not respond in ~12 hours your post will be removed. Hopefully this won’t need to be a permanent thing, but I’ve seen some sketchy shit happening, and some snide comments from snarky users and I’m sick of it.

Please be respectful of all users, and if you see something, say (report) something. It’s the very first rule. We’ll take care of it.

REPORT REPORT REPORT!

1. Automod is being set up today to make a default post with a few bullet points. It will be commented on every post that is submitted to the sub explaining the above in brief. It will be a weird change and I’m sorry if it’s unwelcome, but again, sketch shit is happening right now and I don’t like it. Be nice to automod he’s just doing his best.

2. Please let us know if any of this has bothered you or anything at all. This is not a sub for complaints or call-outs so please leave that at home. But if you have any genuine, considerate concerns this is the place to voice them!

Thank you for reading and being so generally great and fostering a wonderful environment for new and veteran proppers alike!