General Community Guidelines

/r/Europe is a moderated subreddit and Reddiquette applies here.

These rules are in addition to reddit's rules, all of which also apply at all times.

/r/Europe covers all European-related content; as such you will come across content, views and people you disagree with. We encourage robust debate so long as said debate is kept civil.

These rules are not exhaustive; moderators reserve the right to take necessary corrective action where deemed appropriate.

1. Original Content: Ensure all [OC] submissions are clearly marked as your own content; keep said submissions on topic and read the site-wide guidance on self-promotion written by the admins. Excessive submissions of your own content, in addition to a lack of interaction with the subreddit, will result in a ban.

2. Petitions, Surveys, & Advertising: Must be cleared with the moderators before submission. Said submissions must be substantial in their contribution to the subreddit.

3. Paywalled and non-English submissions: Allowed so long as the complete content of the article (in English) is posted in the comment section.

4. Text posts: We only allow text posts that are informative, well-researched, and stimulate healthy discussion. Please use /r/askeurope for simple questions.

5. Series posts: Posts tagged as "X of Europe" are series posts. If they become too common in the front page, the mods reserve the right to stop new ones for a period of time.

   a. Submission Statement:: When submitting a 'Series Post', users must write a short comment to give more details about the topic. What is it? Why is it interesting? How does it relate to other things in Europe? Copying and pasting wiki articles is not sufficient; use your own words.

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Disallowed Submissions:

1. News articles not pertinent to /r/europe.

   a. Local Crime: Local crime news with no international or political significance will be removed. Criminal offenses are common and by themselves are not relevant at a pan-European scale. However, we reserve the right to approve funny, interesting and/or unique crime stories. Meta-studies, or longitudinal studies, of crime and the nature of crime are perfectly acceptable.

   b. News articles older than 3 months

   c. Non-European news

2. Standalone content lacking credible source: In particular, graphs, maps, infographics, videos etc without a visible and verifiable source. If it's not present in the picture/link, post it as a comment.

3. Editorialised titles: Use the original title of the article, or add text from the byline or the first paragraph where necessary (for clarity). Refrain from including your opinion within the title or arbitrarily emphasizing selective segments.

4. Image macros, memes, reaction gifs and similar low-effort content

5. Unreliable, Propagandistic, and/or Agenda-Driven sources.

   a. Agenda pushing: Refers to accounts found to persistently and overwhelmingly post and comment to promote a specific political agenda. This isn't an outlet for propaganda.

   b. Disreputable sources: Including, but not limited to, infowars, thelocal, RT, brietbart, et al.

   c. Social media: Facebook, Twitter, personal blogs, Tumblr, Blogspot etc. Very rare exceptions can be made for official and verified organization accounts, after clearing it with moderators.

6. URL Shorteners: Don't use link shorteners. Your post will be automatically removed. There is no reason for them in reddit anyway.

7. Duplicates: This includes different sources covering the same story without expanding on it or providing any new information.

8. Unlabeled NSFW images/videos: This refers to newsworthy, relevant NSFW content. Porn-type NSFW will be removed and it's an easy way to get banned.

9. Blogspam (if stolen content/direct copy): Original news content on blogs is fine, but the largely copy-pasted stuff from earlier articles with a short line or paragraph of commentary is not. If you find a blogspam talking about something relevant for /r/Europe, put a little effort into finding the source of what the blog is talking about (if it really is European news, this shouldn't be too difficult).

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Disallowed Comments:

1. Low effort comments, memes and excessive circlejerking: This is especially enforced in news submissions and political debates.

2. Racism, bigotry and other offensive content: Includes but is not limited to: hate speech, genocide denial (Holocaust, Armenian genocide, Holodomor, etc), homophobia, endorsement of violence or other criminal activity.

3. Attacks on other users: Stick to the topic at hand and remain civil towards other users.

4. Comments about Reddit or /r/europe (meta comments): These belong on our dedicated meta subreddit: /r/EuropeMeta

5. Unlabelled NSFW images/videos: This refers to newsworthy, relevant NSFW content. Porn-type NSFW will be removed and it's an easy way to get banned.

6. Agenda pushing: Refers to accounts found to persistently and overwhelmingly post and comment to promote a specific political agenda. This isn't an outlet for propaganda.