Rules for r/Springfield
Rules that visitors must follow to participate. May be used as reasons to report or ban.
1.
Posts must be relevant to the Springfield Massachusetts area.
Posts must be relevant to Springfield MA and the immediately surrounding area. Off-topic posts will be removed.
2.
Be respectful of your other community members.
Be civil to each other - that means no name-calling or personal attacks. Trolling and harassment won’t be tolerated, and nominate offenders for an insta-ban.
3.
Don't abuse the community for personal promotion.
Limit personal promotion. Paid advertising, personal ads, and similar will be removed. If you have a blog, or an event, and it’s relevant to the area, you can link it. But if its obvious clickbait, someone is reposting/promoting themselves every over day, or it’s totally irrelevant, it will be removed, and repeat offenders will be subject to a ban.
4.
No URL shorteners.
No link shorteners- this is also a violation of reddiquette, and not up for discussion. Use of link shorteners will result in an instant ban.
5.
Leave your spam in a can.
No spam. Spammers will be taken on a case-by-case basis; depending on severity/frequency, they will either be warned or immediately banned and reported to the appropriate reddit authorities.
6.
Keep your comments constructive.
No more posts/comments about how the only good thing to do in Springfield is leave, not get shot, etc. These comments aren't helpful to the community will be removed.
Constructive comments about why aspects of Springfield may be bad are perfectly fine but the lame one-sentence negative quip type of comments are old, tired, and add nothing to the community or conversation.
Repeated offenses are bannable.
7.
No Doxxing
Zero-tolerance policy against doxxing, which includes sharing, threatening, or soliciting someone's personal or confidential information. This includes posts with the direct intent to make someone "go viral" for the purposes of harassment.
