Yes, you should make a welcome post immediately. But I’d make it more recovery-focused, searchable, and serious than Reddit’s default template.

Here’s a strong version:

Welcome to r/StopGooningNow — Quit Porn, Break the Cycle, Rebuild Discipline

Hey everyone, I’m u/BrainPlasticity, the founding moderator of r/StopGooningNow.

This is a recovery and accountability community for people who want to stop gooning, quit porn, break compulsive PMO habits, and rebuild self-control one day at a time.

Whether you’re on Day 0, Day 1, coming back after a relapse, or already building a strong streak, you’re welcome here. No shame. No excuses. Just honesty, support, discipline, and forward movement.

What to Post

You can post about:

• Daily check-ins: your day count, goals, wins, struggles, and plan for today
• Urge help: post when you feel close to relapsing and need support
• Relapse reports: what happened, what triggered it, and what you’ll change next time
• Victory posts: better focus, better sleep, more confidence, improved relationships, gym progress, studying, faith/spiritual progress, etc.
• Questions about quitting gooning, porn, PMO, edging, compulsive scrolling, and related habits
• Accountability partner requests
• Advice and strategies that helped you stay clean

Community Vibe

This is not a place for porn, bait, erotic stories, or shame-posting.

We want this community to be:

Supportive, honest, disciplined, beginner-friendly, and serious about recovery.

You do not have to be perfect to be here. But you do need to be honest and willing to fight for a better version of yourself.

Basic Rules

1. No porn, no bait, no explicit sexual content.
2. No glorifying gooning, edging, porn, or relapse.
3. Be respectful. Tough love is okay. Cruelty is not.
4. Keep relapse reports recovery-focused, not graphic.
5. Encourage action, not hopelessness.

Relapse is not the end. It is data. Learn from it, reset, and get back up.

How to Get Started

Introduce yourself in the comments:

Day:
Reason I’m quitting:
Biggest trigger:
My plan for the next 24 hours:

Even a simple comment like “Day 1. I’m tired of living like this and I’m ready to change” is enough.

If you’re new, your first mission is simple:

Get through the next 24 hours clean. Then come back tomorrow.

If you’re interested in helping moderate and build this community, message me. We’ll need people who care about keeping this place clean, supportive, and focused.

Thanks for being part of the first wave.

Let’s build the place people find when they search: “How do I stop gooning?”

Stop gooning. Quit porn. Rebuild your life.

I’d use this as your pinned welcome post. It has the important searchable terms: stop gooning, quit porn, PMO, relapse, urges, accountability, recovery. That helps the subreddit’s identity immediately.