Attention Subreddit.

We hope you’ve been doing well we know the last few days have been riots and chaos. In fact the inferno of the wild fire was so strong and wide spread you all thought the mods gave up. When in reality we were putting out as many fires as we could waiting until things started dying down, with the occasional break for our mental health. Because lets be real if all this stopped me from my plans of opening Pokémon Cards & doing my 1^st playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3 I personally would’ve crashed out. However we are now noticing a shift. We are noticing that after all the tears and grief that people are starting to realize what I and the other mods have been trying to say this whole time that some of you understandably found annoying during this grieving. This situation is a mess beyond messes but it’s also a delicate and sensitive one. That’s only going to get better if we all calm down, breathe, accept this, and try to carry on. Instead of doing unhinged toxic shit like treating random baseless rumors that pop up on TikTok or twitter as gospel, or thinking it’s a good idea to encourage people to directly DM and harass people who may or may not be involved. We’re not saying its crazy you’re speculating. We get, understand, and aren’t naïve that people will do that, in fact we want to try to give people a safe space to do talk about this & process everything. However there is a difference between healthy speculation and thinking some random fuck ass comment made 40 weeks ago on some random post made by some random account anyone can make is credible. If Throast from Wikipedia would scoff at the notion of it even being remotely reputable then why are you even entertaining the notion of it? That kind of unhealthy behavior does nothing but add more unnecessary stress that didn’t need to exist in the first place, and doesn’t help the crew navigate & figure out what they want to do and give you the answers you’re waiting on in the first place. We get the internet is crazy but this corner here has rules and values as a community. Values that we try to uphold and enforce any day including now. If you want to participate in the degeneracy, you got twitter, snark, Hasan’s sub, or where the hell take your pick. Just know here is not an option.

The mods will be now deleting any duplicates of posts whether it be news and especially vent posts if we’ve seen on very similar to yours. Its nothing personal but we can’t have the sub flooded and there is probably someone who feels the same as you start a convo with them in their thread find some comradery. Anyone posting any wild, baseless rumors or accusations will be temp banned for at least a month or perma banned a mod discretion. That behavior is for twitter where all the unhinged behavior goes. Anyone doing talks of harassment to any person that may or may not be involved will be a perm ban. Finally while we get we can’t stop conversations about this or memes not that we’re trying to and instead trying to create a space for people to have a conversation about this and process it reasonably. Any one being toxic about it will be temp banned or perma banned. So please use discretion before posting and note it is totally okay to step away from the keyboard and breathe first before engaging in online activities.

We only know as much as you do that’s public and we are just as angry, sad, disappointed, and whatever other emotions that you’re probably feeling. Always have been since day one. However we want to see our friends/ coworkers that we grew to love & respect, succeed so they can have stable happy futures, and we know if you felt the same things we have then you probably want the same. We honestly don’t know if they plan on continuing or not, and I know personally I’m doing some speculating here BUT HEALTHY speculating. Still me personally I think that if you want the best chances for them to come back  they not only need the time and energy to focus on making that decision in peace in the first place, but it will also help if they also saw that the audience they’re returning to is not one that’s toxic & snarky and use any opportunity or excuse they can to justify it like some other certain communities we know; but one that’s civil, that have the maturity & grace to navigate times like these without pouring gasoline on the blaze, and just wants some fucking goofs & gaffs. I know the other mods agree with my hunch and I know you do too. So I say we give them that regardless of what they end up choosing. So please report anything via the reporting system and please be patient as the mods tackle this for y’alls. We’re in this together lets play our part no matter how small.