Usually I'm formal with these pinned posts, but I'm just too exhausted at this point to be formal.

TLDR: If you can't be a good noodle, don't bother participating within the subreddit.

When browsing our subreddit, all I ask is that you're respectful to everyone (even the people within the post, as hard as that may be for a select few of you).

If a post makes you upset enough to target an ENTIRE race, gender, etc with your comment, don't make the comment, keep it to yourself.

I understand that may be hard for some of you, and if it is hard for you to NOT be xenophobic, homophobic, any of the other phobics, you will not be welcome on our subreddit in any capacity.

Contrary to what people may believe about mods, I do not take any joy or pleasure in banning people, I do not have a "quota" to fill. What I do have is a subreddit to protect and users on that subreddit to protect.

> Why am I going to be in trouble for targeting an entire race, gender, etc?

I'm so very fucking glad you asked! 😊

I'll give an example based on a real case from our subreddit here:

> You have a post about one man, who happens to be Muslim, and the story is about him pushing someone else into traffic killing that person (the victim is not labeled as anything and this was not found to be a hate crime).

Just because that one man committed that act of violence DOES NOT MEAN THAT ALL MUSLIMS ARE DANGEROUS TO SOCIETY. We have Muslim users in our own community who also believe the murderer is not a good person. What happens when those Muslim users see how you are commenting about their entire religion?

Replace Muslim with Christian, Jewish, Shinto, Buddhist, any other damn religion you'd like and the same applies.

Just because we're called r/Awfuleverything DOESN'T MEAN YOU NEED TO BE PART OF THAT "EVERYTHING"

Thank you!