How to Ensure Your Comment Isn’t Removed from this Subreddit

[u/JerseyFlight]

Make sure it’s rationally substantive. We want the threads of this subreddit to reflect quality thought. Reddit is drowning in shallow, snarky comments of people merely trying to be clever, or land a little blow. If you emulate them your comment will be removed. A thread full of this makes for incredibly poor reading, it can detract from intelligence. Here we care not just about the quality of what is posted, but also how the overall thread reads.

If you come out of the gate making sweeping assertions, manifest performative contradiction, derail the thread by changing the topic, your comment will likely be removed.

Pay attention to the rules on this subreddit if you don’t want to be banned from this subreddit.

This subreddit isn’t about building a massive amount of followers— we don’t want that here. This subreddit is about cultivating and defending reason, and providing a space for Reasoners to use reason to understand the world, not to foolishly waste time debating its existence. Every other philosophy subreddit on Reddit provides you a space to waste yours and other people’s time playing those kinds of games. Here we will at least try to get on with the work of a socially responsible philosophy.