The below rules are non-negotiables and violations of these rules will result in a ban at our discretion. A lot of you newbies thought that the "ruthless strategist" flair the mod team has is just a cute nickname instead of a promise.

You thought.

1. All podcast criticism needs to be kept in the weekly pinned podcast thread.

I am not committing myself to listen to the podcast episode every week to referree fights between users and determine if the criticism has "merit" or not. You can discuss the episodes with other listeners in the podcast thread as long as you stay within our sub rules and are not antagonistic toward other users. Criticism of the podcast posted outside the podcast thread will be removed.

2. No User PSAs or Soapboxing

There's too many people who have been flaired on this sub all of 30 seconds, who have posted no strategy, assisted no one on their level up journey, and who haven't read the handbook, who somehow feel big and bold and empowered enough to keep posting threads demanding changes to the scope of the sub and declaring what "fds is about", then fighting with the mod team when we correct them.

If you personally have a concern or have some ideas about the kinds of things you would like to see more of 1) be the change you want to see and write it yourself or 2) post your suggestions in the weekly thread and we’ll discuss it.

3. This is primarily a sub about dating strategy and self empowerment and the mod team will enforce that.

We will not continuously coddle you if it’s clear you’re following literally none of the handbook strategies and just here to complain or shit on women who are actually dating. This is not a sub for scared defeatists, this is for women interested in taking some control over their life and influencing their environment.

Furthermore, The level of moderation required and the amount of bad actors on this sub is just not conducive to people who need extended support.

Visit r/AskFDS or r/FemaleLevelUpStrategy or the website thefemaledatingstrategy.com for a more neutral environment to handle your current relationship, life, or mental health issues.

4. This subreddit is specifically about critiquing influences on sex and dating. As I’ve ALREADY STATED IN THIS PRIOR POST, some of you refugees from other now defunct subs keep trying to push open the sub scope to accommodate your personal agendas and let me reiterate that we are NOT interested and will lay down the banhammer if you are not here for dating.

Reddit admins have laid out specific parameters for sub content and those of you intent on breaking them are exploding our moderation workload and pissing all of us off.

5. We do not promote political parties in this sub, nor do we attack or go on brigades against members for how they vote.

This sub has ALWAYS been ethnically, geographically, politically, racially, etc mixed from both the userbase and the mod team from DAY 1.

Somehow we've all managed to get along (mostly) fine until agitators on the sub decide to push or attack other users based their political party.

Apparently this is news to some of you, and some of you feel that not outright ostracizing people based on their voting habits is *LiTeRaLLy AdVocAtiNg MuRdEr” but we have no interest in policing how people vote in a sub about sex 👏, culture 👏, and dating 👏.

There’s too many factors at play in too many geographic locations for that to be the defining basis to which we hold our users.

This SHOULD be obvious to anybody with two brain cells but I’m spelling it out for the 🤡 who decided to waste their life writing paragraphs about how FDS is white supremacist psyop and trying to turn them into Trump voters because they just found out all the users here aren’t the same.

6. Attempting to distribute the handbook without the writers permissions will result in a ban.

The first thing the haters did when we started handing out bans is attempt to download and distribute the handbook and create their own dating offsites using OUR curated and created material. Make that make sense. So literally calling us valueless talentless tyrants and hacks while gleefully stealing content they clearly couldn’t create on their own. This makes everybody less motivated to post quality work and keep contributing.

TheFemaleDatingStrategy.com was created to be a backup website in case we get banned off of Reddit, which is ALWAYS a possibility, and to give the best strategy writers a modicum of copyright protection on their work.

I do suggest that if you’re a prolific strategy creator, you create backups on the website if not offsite it all together.

Your membership on thefemaledatingstrategy.com does not have any influence on your ability to participate in this sub or vice versa.