Users keep asking "what happened to this sub?" and this post serves to address and fix a lot of the shite-quality posts that have created that question

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First, the no personal advice questions rule is in an obvious location (the community rules), and you have no reason not to read it/follow it upon joining the community. Also, if you see people asking them, you should direct them to AskTRP instead of answering their questions (it only encourages people to do more). Still going to delete advice-seeking posts immediately.

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Secondly, for non-question/advice posts, it's a bit less clear what is allowed, and largely the reason people comment "what happened to this sub?" when people post utter garbage on here (looking at you, Neo™). To be clear, I am going to immediately lock/remove garbage from the sub so that this sub looks more like its former glory and not filled with shite.

So what makes a good, acceptable post on here?

•Well-articulated theory advancement

•Meaningful analysis of TRP concepts or even meaningful nuance of concepts (or valid disagreements and why whilst consistent with TRP tenants and the sub rules in the rebuttal)

•Meaningful and effective ways to advance self-improvement

•Valuable lessons, anecdotes, stories to learn from

•Adequate posts that fit any of the selectable flairs in the TRP sub (that are consistent with a solid TRP understanding)

• Solid field reports with enough replicable detail to learn what actually accomplished a lay/pull rather than for example something small like just a date (failed pull FRs are acceptable as well but your analysis should be spot on as to what you did wrong rather than spit-balling guesses or asking for advice on it).

• Obviously this isn't all-inclusive but your posts should be guided by a solid understanding of TRP material with very little misunderstandings of it (if any) and have a reason to post past surface-level regurgitation of something you already saw elsewhere.

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What is NOT allowed and will be immediately removed?

(Apart from what is clearly already in the rules)

•Incel/black-pill drivel. GTFO with that shite. Just because reddit took down your loser subs doesn't mean you can come into here with that shite. This is a place for men to succeed and be awesome, put that woe-is-me, genetic superiority, women-are-evil, short-height fatalism garbage somewhere else.

• Screeds and diatribes. Something shitty has happened to all of us on here, it is largely how many of us found the red pill. However, if your rant/vent is just a teenage-angst screed about how everything sucks and life has no meaning to you or some woman from 17 years ago, it's getting taken down. We don't do that here as men, we actually set out to fix our problems.

• Newbie philosophers. I get it, you're new, TRP is a revelation to you, and you are having a lot of epiphanies and thoughts about shit. But YOU'RE NEW. Don't come into this space, still on your training wheels as a student, typing theory posts and shit. All you are doing is confusing other newbies and writing ideas loaded with innacurate takes on TheRedPill or demonstrating how little of the sidebar/Rollo/etc. that you actually read.

• Watcha-think? posts. Basically an offshoot off the newbie philosopher. Some guy comes in and proposes a post or idea he himself is half unsure about and tries to argue from a point of uncertainty about his own ideas. Guys, just ask for clarification on a general concept instead if you're that unsure of your own ideas.

• TRP criticism posts (without adequate rebuttal). Another kind of poster who has no idea what he's talking about. Usually a sperg that swallowed TRP on empty stomach and read everything about TRP so literally (or didn't read enough of it) that he misunderstands it and starts criticizing TRP as wrong when it's his spergish interpretation that is wrong. Another drivel source that confuses newbies. Not allowed.

• Low quality/low effort posts. If it's clear that OP just had a shower thought and put out a low effort post with very little analysis or supporting examples for anything he's written, it's coming down. The comment section shouldn't be carrying your post, your post should stand on its own legs in the text body.

• Poorly formatted posts. I'm not reading your wall of text without spaces and neither should anyone else have to. Repost it without giving us a migraine.

• Shill posts. If you put up one of those posts directing users to your personal blog / program / whatever, but only a portion of the post is on the sub and I have to track down the rest of your entire post to see if it's TRP sub-compliant, and it turns out your post isn't, it's coming down. Half these shill posts aren't even TRP and often just grifting our user base for clicks. (ECs and approved users exempt from this obviously).

• Again, not necessarily an all-inclusive list but if it's generally a poor post at face value and sitting at negative votes it's probably coming down as well.