u/Cre_AK47

Hey, so I'm one of the main mods that represents r/CanadaGuns. I was going to send this as a modmail, but I feel like I should have this as a public post in case other gun related subs have this issue.

So, a recent issue me and my mod team has seen is that every now and then, like every 2 weeks, the Reddit Admin AI (or humans) likes to go on a banning spree, banning users who post anything that seems to mention any **LEGAL** gun vendors and merchants, or even non-gun stores that sell gun safety equipment on the internet in Canada; links, names, abbreviations, etc.

We're well aware that private person to person sales are not allowed, and we remove such content when we're notified/find it ourselves, but a lot of our users are getting banned for the most innocuous reasons.

We once had a post where someone asked, "Any recommendations on where I can buy a big gun safe for cheap?", and we had a commenter post a link to an online furniture catalogue site in Canada, so not even a gun store, that had a gun safe for sale. The user who posted that link was banned 2 days later under Platform Rule 7.

Last week, we had someone post, "What are some good online firearm retailers in Canada that are trustworthy?". A commenter mentioned 9 stores. Just abbreviations, no links, ads, sales, prices or anything, and that commenter was banned as well under Rule 7 for about 2 days before Reddit admins accepted their appeal and reinstated their account.

Can we please get clarification on what is and IS NOT allowed on Reddit when comes to the topic of legal vendors and store that either directly or indirectly sell anything gun related (safety equipment, accessories, gun themselves, etc.)

We've basically had it where no one can mention prices at all, no one can post links to legal vendors, and any posted images with guns and prices have to be censored, (etc.), but it seems all our efforts to prevent people getting banned site wide under Rule 7 has become futile and now I'm here trying to stop people from losing their accounts...

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the long post!

Freakfest-fixations over on Patreon has now released their MUCH anticipated "Smut" comic, which acts as a VERY HOT filler/in between for "First Date" (Part 15). Just had a look at it, and oh yeah... They go, ughh... Deep... Let's put it that way.

As confirmed by Freak, this is a Patreon paid subscriber EXCLUSIVE comic. "Smut" will not be released anywhere else: Not to the free tier Patreon subscribers, not Instagram, nowhere else.

If you were looking forward to this comic and you haven't already, I HIGHLY recommend you subscribe and basically buy Freak a Starbucks cup of coffee, even if it's just for this one comic. There's other "Smut's" Freak has made as well in the past, which you'll get access to those as well. It's very well done, you won't be disappointed.

Phase 1 of the pilot produced no problems, so we're moving onto the next phase! Have fun!