THE PURPOSE OF RPC

As I'm sure many of you have noticed, there are some bizarre and off-the-wall conversations that get started here. Many of them get removed so that you don't even see them in the first place. I have had countless users comment on their appreciation for the high quality of the content produced here at RPC from a variety of sources, and we want to remain committed to producing quality material. As such, the main sub will start being a little stricter about the quality of material posted and staying on-topic.

To be clear, that "topic" has and always will remain on the sidebar. Discussion of problems, solutions and insights on relationships, sex, and biblical masculinity according to biblical principles. We do permit political, sociological, and cultural conversation as well, to the degree that it affects any of these areas directly.

Accordingly, RPC proper will now only allow posts regarding the following:

  1. Substantive content that incorporates BOTH red pill and faith-based elements (or is otherwise sufficiently high enough value on either one alone to be warranted).

  2. Field Reports - we ALWAYS want more field reports.

  3. Serious advice threads where the content of the responses will likely hold great value for others reading (no mental masturbation or hypotheticals).


WHY A NEW SUB?

In remaining committed to high-quality content, we realize there are a host of other topics people want to ask about without having a good place to discuss them. For example: if someone wants to ask about transsubstantiation, where's the best place to ask that? Hyper-(theologically)-liberal r/Christianity run by atheists? r/TrueChristian, which (while better) is predominantly influenced by cultural mainstream conservative churchianity?

Until now, there really hasn't been a place for red pilled Christians to ask questions exclusively to other red pilled Christians that were too off-topic or low-quality to warrant posting on the main sub. For example, with the election cycle coming up, we're expecting a huge wave of political posts. Some of these posts will be perfectly appropriate and high-value enough to warrant posting here. Others ... won't be.

As mods, we explored various options to let people have a voice on these matters, while not allowing content here to be diluted. The two prime options were to allow a weekly sticky post for off-topic conversation, another for political discussion, etc. However, most comments in these threads get overlooked and don't receive the attention they deserve, even though still too off-topic to warrant attention on the main sub. The other was to start r/askRPC - a concept that was discussed when RPC was first created, but we did not have the user-base to justify its existence.

In light of all of this, rather than silencing conversation or forcing people to get their answers from questionable sources (feminized churchianity or non-Christians), we've decided to open the doors to these types of questions, conversation topics, and teaching points to be addressed by other like-minded individuals, which this main sub has historically been closed to - and also raise the bar on the quality of posts placed here.


FAQ

Does that mean I shouldn't post here if I feel I have something important to say?

No. It means your post might get taken down with a request that it be moved to askRPC instead. We don't want to discourage people from posting here or to decrease the opportunity for good content here; we only want to filter out the weaker content.

What if I don't know which sub I should post it on?

Message the mods, especially if you already have a draft in the works. Feel free to PM me too.

Are there any limits on what can be posted on askRPC?

There's a welcome post already up that outlines this. The limits will be extremely broad, but trolling and completely worthless garbage will still be prohibited.

Can women post there?

Sure. While this is a contentious issue, we do ask that women flair themselves appropriate. I recognize that we have not set up flair there yet, and it will likely be at least a week before I can get to that, due to a major trial I have coming up on Friday.

What if this sub dies down because most of the conversation moves there?

I'm okay with that. I would rather have 1 quality post a week than 2 low-quality posts a day. I view RPC proper (especially now that r/askRPC is up) as more of a wiki that encourages ongoing contributions. If those contributions aren't made, the existing content provides ongoing value and that's enough.

Let me be clear: we, as mods, do not need the validation of numerous posts to feel like our sub is "successful." This is a quality sub, not a quantity sub. The bar for that quality has just gone up. This may mean that content is less frequent. We're okay with that.

Because r/askRPC is among other like-minded people, does that mean I can trust the answers I get there?

Don't be an idiot. Be an Acts 17 Berean. Never take someone's word for it. Always research Scripture yourself. There will always be ignorant people who comment, those who think they're red pilled but aren't, those who are trolling, etc. The quality of responses will be significantly less moderated than here, and it's much less likely that you're going to get mod or endorsed responders to every question over there.

But as soon as able, we will try to put together a flair system that allows for endorsement to reliable individuals. Feel free to nominate anyone for endorsement who you believe has a consistent pattern of high-quality content in their posts and comments in order to help us identify these people, as the mods currently don't have time to read every post and comment that gets put up.


Any further questions? Just let us know. We encourage all existing users - especially the endorsed ones - to subscribe over there as well. The value of askRPC will be limited by the quality of people willing to post there.