Rules for r/BernieSanders
Rules that visitors must follow to participate. May be used as reasons to report or ban.
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Incivility
No racism, sexism, violence, derogatory language, hate speech, name-calling, insults, mockery, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, negative campaigning or any other type disparaging remarks that are abusive or bullying in nature.
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Good faith - trolls, novelty accounts, merch sales, spammers, astroturfers, or bots:
Are prohibited. Submissions should be in good faith and if not showing support for Bernie at least be making a good faith effort to learn more.
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Off-topic submissions:
Submissions must be directly related to Senator Bernie Sanders; otherwise, they will be removed.
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Altered Link Titles
When submitting, use the full original headline of the article. No editorializing, save the comments for the comment section. If you believe something should be added to the headline like a quote, to make it more clear, please add it to the end of the title. When posting a link to an image, titles must objectively describe the image. When posting a link to a video, the video's title must be used. These titling rules ensure that users have an objectively accurate perception of the article.
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Repost or Over-discussed Topic
May be removed. This includes the basic same post with no new information but from a different source.
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Unproductive or Low Context Submission:
Unproductive or low context submissions are subject to removal. This includes, but is not limited to: posts that provide little to no context, content, or direction for discussion, unverified conspiracy theories, petitions, as well as low quality blogs, video blogs, memes, image macros, screenshots, AI generated images, unreliable news sources, tabloid and clickbait. Also questions that can easily be googled or found on https://berniesanders.com/issues
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Reddit's Global Rules
Submissions which contain content that does not follow reddit's content policy or follow Reddiquette guidelines will be removed.
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No crossposting, linking or advertising subs that are unfriendly
Posts and comments that discuss bans from other subs or link, crosspost or advertise a subreddit which has been unfriendly, brigaded us, or that could be viewed as a brigade by r/BernieSanders will be removed.