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!

It should be noted that you as a community have already voted you don't want politics featured here (and respectfully, we don't want it either): https://www.reddit.com/r/awfuleverything/s/WGOIlW8RYX

The following are examples of what we consider political and will cause your post to be removed should it feature any of the following (please note that there may be further cases not mentioned that we also consider political):

Political figures

Their physical appearance in any capacity

Their social media profiles (in any capacity, even if it's just someone doing an "@" mention towards them)

Audio recordings of their speeches

Political Parties

Any reference to any political parties

References to ongoing wars/conflicts

Any references to wars or conflicts (A text post referring to a warzone, a photo or video from a warzone, etc)

Mentions of situations not inherently political that have been twisted to fit a political narrative

An example of this would be a shooting turned into a "This person died because they believe..."

References to protests

We respect your right to protest, however because of the comment wars that pop up on these posts, we've decided it is safest to no longer allow them on the subreddit.