/u/automoderator is a pretty dedicated robot and will nuke any post that trips it's programming in any way. When it looks through post titles for age, it takes all 2 side-by-side numbers and determines whether or not it's between 18 and 99. If that 2-digit set passes, the post passes [the age check]. If not, it gets removed. So by putting in "2016," it will capture the "16" and will remove the post due to its belief that it is an age. Rule 1 in the sidebar says this sub is for adults, 18 . So if you're going to put "2016" in your post, put it in the post body rather than the title. Thank you much :)

EDIT: Why is this being downvoted immediately? I'm telling you how to NOT have AutoMod remove your perfectly legitimate post. Otherwise, you'd have to send modmail for approval which could take a while depending on our availability. This post is visible only by the virtue of it being stickied, but the downvotes would otherwise bury it.

EDIT 2: How AutoMod works:

https://www.reddit.com/r/r4r/comments/3z5s1g/meta_please_do_not_put_2016_in_your_post_title/cyk2wbd

Just an idea, why don't you change how posts work so instead of just having the age of the person at the front, you have to specify M-Age or F-Age so then in your bots coding, you can search for both M-Age and F-Age and lock/delete posts based upon the integer value that follows. This would allow 2016 and other numbers to be included in the titles of posts.

Instead of: 22 [F4R] I want to make friends in 2016

It would be: F22 [F4R] I want to make friends in 2016

https://www.reddit.com/r/r4r/comments/3z5s1g/meta_please_do_not_put_2016_in_your_post_title/cyk4o10

So we can't remove the age posting because that's how were able to enforce 18 . Legally it's the only way we're able to stay out of the gray area with the admins. That's why the title has to reflect the age of the poster- this way it's on the submitter in their attempts to deceit and not us.

Further explanation: http://i.imgur.com/tlpnMRY.png