Theory Of Reddit: Theories about reddit.

r/TheoryOfReddit is a mildly navel-gazing space for inquiring into what makes Reddit communities work and what we in a community can do to help make it better. This subreddit should focus on data, issues, solutions, or strategies that could be reasonably addressed or implemented **by users and moderators**, not admins. This is not a subredit for your theories on the shape of the earth, Planet X, or why 9/11 was done by reptilians.

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On-topic statement

Theory of Reddit is a mildly navel-gazing space for inquiring into what makes Reddit communities work and what we in a community can do to help make it better.

This is a moderated/curated subreddit. Submissions determined to fall outside of the stated topic will be removed by the moderators.

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Submission rules

^1. Is my submission about a reddit community?

See the on-topic statement

^2. Is what I want achievable by users or moderators?

This subreddit should focus on data, issues, solutions, or strategies that could be reasonably addressed or implemented by users and moderators, not admins.

^3. Is what I type really best suited for /r/TheoryOfReddit or are there other subreddits much better suited for my submission?

Submissions that would be appropriate for /r/AskModerators, /r/Help, /r/Bugs, /r/Circlebroke, /r/IdeasForTheAdmins, /r/ModerationTheory, /r/SubredditDrama, /r/AboutReddit, /r/Self or /r/RedditDev will be removed. >

How your post is phrased has a great influence on how appropriate it is for /r/TheoryOfReddit, for example: /r/circlebroke might allow sensationalized titles where we remove them.

^4. Do I explain in my submission why I think this is relevant for /r/TheoryOfReddit and what I want to achieve with the submission?

Submissions with a question should at least contain a motivation for asking the question in the text field. Posts with nothing but a title will be removed. >

^5. Is my submission a [meta] post?

Please contact the moderators before making a [meta] post. Failing to do so will likely result in the removal of your submission.

General rules

^1. Personal attacks, abusive language, trolling, racism and bigotry will not be tolerated.

Offenders will be banned, pending moderator review. Impersonating other redditors or spamming will earn an immediate ban. >

^2. Keep the discussion on-topic.

If the purpose of your comment is to derail the discussion, troll another user, personally attack a user, or make a racial/bigoted statement then it, and possibly you, will be removed. Comments that obviously add nothing to the discussion will also be removed (e.g. "lol", "this", "I agree"). >

^3. No bigoted/racist usernames.

Usernames containing racist or bigoted slurs will be banned without warning. >

Reddiquette

We encourage proper reddiquette and hope that submissions or comments are voted up or down based on their relevancy to our subreddit, not because the reader agrees or disagrees with the presented opinion.

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/r/ModerationTheory - Discussion of moderation theory/philosopy in reddit.
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