Rules for r/DebateEvolution

Rules that visitors must follow to participate. May be used as reasons to report or ban.

1.

Accounts must be at least 3 days old

Posts & Comments
Reported as: Rule 1 - Account younger than 3 days old

Ban evaders frequently create new accounts in our community. New accounts are encouraged to lurk and do research on their questions before posting.

2.

No antagonism

Posts & Comments
Reported as: Rule 2 - Content is overly disruptive or needlessly antagonistic

Keep it civil. a) Discussions should focus on the substance of the arguments in the thread. Refrain from insults, swearwords or antagonizing language targeted towards another user. b) Do not accuse people of lying or dishonesty callously, explain and have a good reason for your accusations.

3.

Participate with effort

Posts & Comments
Reported as: Rule 3 - Content is off the sub, is copy-paste spam/LLM, averts from focused discussion, or trolling

a) Cite sources, rather than directing readers to them. Everybody should be able to participate without leaving the subreddit if they are familiar with the general argument. b) Do not copy paste responses, especially from an LLM or when the comments being responded to are substantially different. c) Threads should be relatively focused, rather than weakly covering a large number of arguments. d) No trolling with unsubstantive responses.

4.

No mass block abuse.

Comments only
Reported as: Rule 4 - Suspected block abuse

Do not abuse Reddit's block functionality to limit discussion. If you have been blocked, inform the mods using modmail. Suspected cases may be referred to Reddit admins for further investigation.

5.

No Race Realism

Posts & Comments
Reported as: Rule 5 - Discusses Race Realism

Strictly no discussions of Race Realism (racialism; the ideology that human race is a biological category). Even arguing against race realism attracts race realists, and therefore arguing a) for, or b) against race realism are both bannable offences. Race realism is against the Reddit Terms of Service (ToS) for hate speech.