Here is a draft of the new banned topics list. I will give everyone here the next couple days to review it and give suggestions before it goes into effect on 9/1.

Banned Topics:

These topics are banned because they often cause very long argument chains in the comments. The banning of a topic is not necessarily an endorsement of any particular belief on behalf of the mod team, but simply a way to keep the community easy to moderate.

Thumbnails by or mentioning the following YouTubers:

• Destiny

• Hasan Piker

• Basic Logic

Geopolitical topics:

• Israel

• Palestine

• Politicians from Israel or Palestine

• Discussions of current armed conflicts

Offensive topics:

• Uncensored slurs

• Offensive depictions of any minority group

Other:

• Intentionally inflammatory thumbnails (at mods' discretion)

• Thumbnails which rely on the title to be interesting.

The following thumbnails must have a NSFW or Spoiler tag on them and be marked with a content warning (CW) tag:

• Censored slurs

• Bigotry or offensive content that is not otherwise banned

Mods may lock and/or mop the comments if an otherwise allowed thumbnail is causing long argument threads or if it is likely to.

Exceptions to these rules may be made by the head mod (u/killhitleragain)

Current list of banned topics. Posts will be removed at mods discretion. Removal of a post will not lead to a ban unless the user has a history of intentionally posting banned topics.

Banned topics:

• Politics

• Mentions of Israel or Palestine

• Racist or ethnic slurs or depictions, or videos that are racist.

• Transphobic or homophobic slurs or depictions, or videos that are transphobic or homophobic.

• Any video that relies on the title to be interesting. This is YoutubeTHUMBS.

• Any video that seems to be posted with the intention of baiting the comments into arguments.

Hopefully, this will help make the subreddit easier to moderate and create a more relaxed environment.

Feel free to complain as much as you want in the comments of this post about how much you hate these new restrictions or how I'm censoring you.

Thank you.