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What is /r/Pics?
Rules:
Rule 1: No Screenshots
Rule 2: No Digital Elements/Added Text
Rule 3: No Pornography or Gore
Rule 4: No Doxxing or Witch-Hunts
Rule 5: Title Rules
Rule 6: Only Allowed Image-Hosts
Rule 7: No GIFs or Videos
Rule 8: Civility
Rule 9: No Progress Pics
Rule 10: No FCoO or Flooding
Rule 11: Repost Limitations
Rule 12: Self-Promotion Limitations
Additional/Temporary Rules
Information
Extra Links

What is /r/Pics?
/r/Pics is a place to share all kinds of photographs and pictures. Feel free to post your own, but
please read all of the below rules first. Also, please note that we are not a catch-all community for all
images. (Comics, maps, and screenshots are not allowed, for example.)
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Rules:

Rule 1: No Screenshots
No screenshots. No pictures wherein the only focus is a screen.

Images with unnecessary margins of any colour will be assumed to be screenshots.

Pictures which include screens can be permitted, but said screens must not be the sole or primary
foci of the photographs.

Rule 2: No Digital Elements/Added Text

No pictures with added or superimposed digital text, emojis, or "MS Paint"-like scribbles.

"Added text" is extended to all drawings, whether done digitally or by hand. A hand-drawn comic
with text, for example, would be removed, whereas as a photograph of a person holding a sign
would be allowed.

Photoshopped or otherwise manipulated images are allowed.

While we do allow watermarks, they have to be inconspicuous.

We also allow faces and anything else you may consider to be personal information to be blurred,
boxed out, or otherwise covered.

Rule 3: No Pornography or Gore

No pornography or gore. NSFW comment links must be tagged. Posting gratuitous materials
may result in an immediate and permanent ban.

Pornography

Artistic nudity (NSFW link) is allowed, but must be tagged with "NSFW."

Anything that is focused solely on displaying nudity is not allowed.

If genitals are displayed within a photograph, it will generally be treated as pornography, but this is
up to the discretion of the acting moderator.

Pictures focused on nudity are better suited for /r/GoneWild or /r/NSFW.

Gore

No pictures which include excessive blood or inside-the-flesh details made visible via any form of
laceration.
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pictures which depict the results of violent or injurious acts that we feel are not
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appropriate.

Rule 4: No Doxxing or Witch-Hunts

No personal information may be offered in posts or comments.

Personal information includes (but is not limited to) names not in the public domain, names in
yearbooks, invoices, receipts, identifying account-numbers, home addresses, or telephone numbers.
Even if an address or telephone number is publicly available, avoid putting it in any of your
comments for any reason.

For spam-related and doxxing-centric reasons, we do not allow direct links to any social media sites
other than Twitter. However, we do allow comments to mention social media handles, provided that
no links are included.

Subreddit-related meta-drama, stalking, harassment, witch-hunting, or doxxing will not be tolerated

and will result in an immediate ban.

Please don't post any missing/found posts for people or property. Try your local subreddit for that.

As license plates are public information, we do not regard them as personal information.

Rule 5: Title Rules

All posts must follow the title rules. Those are detailed here.

Rule 6: Only Allowed Image-Hosts

Submissions must link directly to a specific image file or to one of the allowed image-hosts.

You can upload your picture either directly to Reddit or to one of the following image-hosts:
Imgur.com, Flickr.com or 500px.org.

Additionally, we allow any direct link to a picture, provided that the URL ends in .png, .jpg, or .jpeg.

URL-shorteners are prohibited, as are URLs in image-descriptions or album-descriptions.

Rule 7: No GIFs or Videos

No GIFs, videos, or animated media.

Please submit animated images to /r/GIFs, /r/GIF, /r/Videos, or /r/ReactionGIFs instead.

Rule 8: Civility
We enforce a standard of common decency and civility here. Please be respectful to others.
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Inappropriate behavior or content will be removed and can result in a ban. This includes (but is not
limited to) personal attacks, fighting words, or comments that insult or demean a specific user or
group of users.

Bigotry, hate, and racism are not allowed. We are a strictly anti-bigotry community. Any explicit or
implicit racism or slurs (such as referencing crime statistics as a justification for racism, intentional
misgendering, or identifying a whole group by the bad behavior of single individuals) can lead to the
removal of your comment and the banning of your account.

We allow and welcome the discussion of controversial topics. However, we expect that everyone
participates in good faith and not with the intent to troll or spread bigotry.

Any comments that advocate, make fun of, or glorify violence, death, or suicide are against our and
Reddit's site-wide rules, and will therefore result in a permanent ban.

Optimally, the level of discourse here should be at the level you'd find between you and your
teacher, or between you and professional colleagues. Obviously, we're going to allow various types
of humor here, but if it would make someone you respect lose respect for you, then you're best off
avoiding it.

We also have a zero-tolerance policy towards COVID misinformation. Anyone engaging in such
behavior will be banned.

Please be aware that uncivil comments against public figures – especially politicians – are mostly
exempt from the incivility-specific part of this rule.

More information can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/wiki/rule8

Rule 9: No Progress Pics

No submissions featuring before-and-after depictions of personal health-progress or
achievement, and no standalone images of personal achievement objects.

Progress pictures are only prohibited if they show clear health progress or achievement. For
example, before-and-after pictures of weight-loss, sobriety, or muscle-gain are not allowed, whereas
images showing a person's young self and old self are allowed, as getting older isn't health-progress
or achievement.

Standalone images of medals, tokens, certificates, and awards are similarly disallowed, save for
when the items are being presented as historical curiosities.

Examples:

Not Allowed

Title: It has been eight months since my last drink.

Post: Picture of a sobriety coin.

Title: My daughter won second place in her school's spelling bee!

Post: Picture of a ribbon.
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cancer-free!
Post: Picture of medical test results.
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Title: As of today, I am a published author.

Post: Picture of an author with their book.

Title: This is the cake that made me a winner.

Post: Picture of a baker holding a trophy next to a
cake.

Title: My grandmother got to ring the bell at Saint Lucifer's Hospital today!
Post: Picture of a woman
in a wheelchair ringing the cancer-free bell.

Rule 10: No FCoO or Flooding

No false claims of ownership (FCoO) or flooding.

False claims of ownership (FCoO) – posting pictures that aren't yours but pretending like they are –
will result in a ban. Please be aware that using the OC tag or writing [OC] in the title is considered
FCoO unless the content is 100% produced(taken, drawn or made) by you.

Flooding (more than four posts in a rolling twenty-four-hour window) will also result in a ban.

Rule 11: Repost Limitations

Reposts of images on the front page or within the set limit of /r/pics/top will be removed.

To keep our subreddit fresh and to avoid having the same content constantly pop up, we currently
remove reposts of images that are currently on the front page of /r/Pics.

Additionally, we remove reposts of the top 25 images posted this year, and the top 50 of all time.

Rule 12: Self-Promotion Limitations

Submitters may offer only one self-promotional link per post.

Content-creators are only allowed to offer one self-promotional link per post. Breaking or
circumventing this rule may result in temporary or permanent bans.

Accounts that exist solely to advertise or promote will be banned, regardless of how or where the
promotion itself occurs.

Examples of unacceptable self-promotion include (but are not limited to) the following:

More than 10% of an account's total posts are to sites or channels which they own or operate.
An account has a stickied or otherwise highlighted piece of self-promotion on its profile page.
More than 10% of an account's standalone comments include links or references to external
content.
 An account offers frequent or repeated calls to follow them.
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Bots of any kind are not allowed, as they clutter comment sections and are usually more spam-like
than helpful.

We don't allow fundraising posts or comments of any kind.

Additional/Temporary Rules
Serial reposters may be filtered or banned.
We prefer that new users post original content, not pictures sourced from the Internet.
Reposting as a very new account might get you banned.
All posts by new users require moderator approval. This is an anti-spam measure.
Please mark spoilers like this: >!text here!< Click/tap to .
We are using a bot to automatically ban anyone who participates in the NoNewNormal
subreddit. This is being done because brigades are regularly organized there, and
misinformation about COVID is then spread in our community.

Information
If you think that your post has disappeared, or if you see spam or an inappropriate post or
comment, please do not hesitate to either press the report button or contact us via the moderator
mail by clicking here. We're happy to help.

The community works much better when everyone works together to keep the place running as
smoothly as possible.

Extra Links
Click here to find additional, more-specialized picture subreddits.

Last revised by relaxlu - 14 days ago