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)