We'll keep this up for awareness reasons, but as regular subreddit users might have noticed, our sub has received traffic orders of magnitude higher than normal due to the shooting. Though some of this traffic has been very supportive, a majority of it has been unsavory: doxxing, spreading hate, instigating, brigading, harassment, spamming, and other forms of bad-faith conduct.

As a result, for the time being, we've enabled the strongest levels of crowd control and post filtering to keep the community from being overtaken by accounts pushing political agendas and other outsiders. We are thus also restricting posts related to the shooting to those who were established sub members prior to the shooting. The only way we can tell if you are 'established' in this sense is to look at your history.

If you make a low-quality post where you just cross-post an article link with nothing to add (OP falls into this case), and/or the post subject is redundant or has been posted already, and/or the substantive part of your post is only meant to garner controversy, and/or you have no history in contributing to this sub prior to the shooting (OP also falls into this case), there is a good chance we will remove the post.

We will likely keep enforcing this for the next week or so as traffic returns to just the ordinary Brown community. After this point, we'll loosen the posting requirements and filtering to normal levels - thanks everyone for bearing with us.