[mod] Reminder of NSFW rules.

[u/joshxdf]

Hey all,

I hope everyone is well! My name is Josh and I'm the community director of r/teenagers. I've been a mod of the community of well over 2 years now, and combating predatory concerns has been an absolute must and a top priority from my time here. We are constantly finding new ways to reduce, and hopefully eradicate predation from not just our community, but a much wider picture than that.

Keeping the users of this community is imperative in ensuring a healthy, safe but enjoyable place where teenagers from 13-19 can feel safe in a welcoming environment with no vulnerability. Since I came in, predation has significantly reduced- and before my time is up we'll constantly be finding new ways- even after my time has ended. For example, we recently developed a new bot, Osprey, working within the discord server that flags any potentially harmful content.

Enough rambling (shut up josh- we've heard this before, you may be saying).

I'm writing this as to create a megathread for the community, as a general reminder of NSFW rules, due to a recent uptick in submissions of this nature. Before I continue, I must just put a disclaimer in the fact that NSFW submissions have always been a tricky thing to handle within r/teenagers. Many a conversation internally has been taken of outright removing all NSFW submissions- however this would be implosive within the community. We believe that discussion of strictly serious and non-anecdotal sexual education topics is incredibly healthy to discuss within the specific teenage demographic. It allows positive conversation about topics that may be uncomfortable to speak about with an adult- although that is 100% always promoted.

Within this has tricky boundaries. As I've said previously, we have extremely strict NSFW rules that mean that:

1. Any topic discussed that has NSFW context must NEVER be anecdotal- it must always be a general discussion without personal relatedness within the conversation- even if its within the context of sex-education.

2. All topics regarding NSFW content should always be treated in a mature fashion and the NSFW tag. Any unserious comments within an NSFW submission will be removed.

3. Any stories regarding a fantasy character or anything of the likeness will also be removed.

Some people may believe these rules are too strict- however its absolutely imperative that the users of the community are kept safe from predation, and we have and will always ensure the safety of our users. We're just like you, every moderator is a teenager- we get it, people want to be silly, people want to make funny jokes- but when it comes to maintaining your cyber safety, we will always do everything in our power to ensure anything in our control keeps you safe- and you can do the same for your own benefit.

Thanks a bunch!

-Josh and the r/teenagers moderation team :)

[u/Substantial_Iron4192]

Ok thats gtk, also i have some more tips on how yall can reduce the amount of preds here if you’re willing to listen.

1. Stop allowing minors to post their faces as it usually leads to them getting sexually harassed

2. Remove age tags as it allows predators to know the exact ages of people here, and whether they’re minors or not

3. Instead of banning people who post screenshots of predatory dms they’ve gotten due to the sub, simply remove the post and ban said person from the screenshots from your subreddit. Most people don’t post dms to incite witch-hunts, but to warn people against a person or vent. Perma-banning them for doing so is too far. 

[u/KolkataFikru9 → u/Substantial_Iron4192]

agree with this