JOHN GALT
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/r/Vaporents Announcement and a message from Reddit admins - Temporary restriction on new content
Subreddit Announcement
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Howdy ents, /u/ProfessionalHandJob here with an update regarding r/Vaporents and recent actions by Reddit administration.
As you've likely noticed our community is now flagged as containing adult content (18+/NSFW). You may have also discovered on your own, or have seen the various postings across Reddit, regarding a number of subreddits were banned by the Reddit admins over the last week. Today around 2:30PM EST, r/EntExchange, r/DynavapExchange, r/UKEntExchange, r/enail, r/Arizer, r/VolcanoVaporizer/ were all banned for rule violations. E-cig/nicotine hardware and juice subreddits have also been banned or received the same warning message from Reddit admins during this same time period.
In the spirit of transparency the message we received from Reddit this afternoon was as follows:
In light of these developments, we're taking a hopefully brief pause in allowing new content posts as we come up with updated Reddit rules to comply with Reddit site guidelines. This will allow us time to consider the impact this will have on the long term future of r/Vaporents, while preventing new content that may be viewed as Reddit admins to be in violation of Reddit rules.Hi mods,
We are reaching out to notify you that your community has been designated as 18+ due to being centered on products and/or substances intended for adult use. Users who visit your community will encounter an interstitial that will ask them to confirm that they are 18+.
We also wanted to remind you that any type of sourcing, sale promotion, or sale facilitation (including things like flaring/approving vendors), is prohibited. Please note that this includes not only substances (juice, etc) but vaping devices and accessories themselves. We ask that you update your community rules to reflect this, if you haven't done so already.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us via r/ModSupport Mod Mail.
We do not take this action lightly and it is our hope that by instituting this temporary pause to come up with a response we will be able to prevent r/Vaporents from being banned completely, which would result in the loss of all information gathered in the subreddit over the years. We view r/Vaporents as an important source of discussion, information, history, etc; and it would be a loss to the community to lose that information permanently.
For now, we will leave the ability to leave comments on existing posts enabled, however please keep in mind the guidelines specified by Reddit administration when posting comments. We want to avoid taking the sub private or limiting the ability to have continued discussion on this issue, as well as existing content; so it is important we make a good faith effort to abide by Reddit rules.
We're hoping to have this all sorted out sometime tomorrow, 4/26/2022.
We'll provide updates as we have something more to provide either on this post, or through a new stickied post. Thank you all for your understanding and the community you've helped maintain here over the years.
- r/Vaporents mods
https://www.reddit.com/r/vaporents/comments/uc23lq