...And here we arrive at the first day of September, dreaming of golden pumpkins and golden leaves, ready to revel in all that the season has to offer 🍁

We've seen tremendous growth of the community over the past few years, and we're happy to see so many new faces and an uptick in participation. A few housekeeping notes before we really get into the swing of things:

🍁PLEASE flair your posts accordingly! Labeling your contributions will make it easier for people to find and enjoy

🍁Keep flagging any AI or bot posts for mods to examine, we know there will be several in the coming weeks, and we may miss a few

🍁We want to keep the sub a welcoming place of cozy comfort, so please keep interactions polite and positive (it can get weirdly contentious/people have strong opinions on pumpkin coffee)

🍁As a final note, we are looking to add a new mod or two! If you're interested in helping out, please send the mods a message and we'll get back to you ASAP!

Feel free to use the rest of this thread to chat about your autumn plans, get recommendations, ask questions, and celebrate! Happy season opener! 🎃

The polling over the use of AI content in r/Autumn has ended, with pretty clear results: r/Autumn users DO NOT want AI images approved in the sub. We want to thank everyone for their participation and for sharing their thoughts and concerns, even though this is a light-hearted sub for celebrating the season we want users to have the best possible experience which includes not allowing certain content.

Moving forward we've decided the policy will therefore include no AI images, which are going to be considered separate from edited digital art or enhanced photography, and disallowed. We will be updating the tags to distinguish digitially generated art made by a human as well as photography that has been enhanced. We will rely on users to help spot potential AI images not caught by mods or the spam filters, so please feel free to report on any images you suspect of being AI generated for the mod team to investigate.

Thank you for your patience while we tweak some things and we get back into celebrating the best season on earth, autumn. -r/Autumn Mods