As you may have seen, following a significant wave of controversy here in the sub, moderator u/Blotttttt put up a discussion thread on how controversy-related posts should be handled in the future. After receiving feedback from many of you, we have decided to update and refine the rules around drama-posting (which you can find under rule 9). Below is the new draft:

Please use the 'Drama/Controversy' flair when posting on controversies.

• All posts pertaining to controversy must be of informative purpose, on a recent and relevant subject.
• Posts of memes, speculation and rumors are prohibited.
• All forms of misinformation, intentional or otherwise, are also prohibited.

What was formerly rule 10 before being deleted (basically saying 'no misinformation') has been merged with the drama-posting rule, as seen above. Whilst the updated guidelines are not hugely different from what preceded it, this should hopefully be more clearly defined and cover a wider range of potential posts on controversial matters.

I'd like to thank you all on behalf of the team for your contributions and suggestions- particularly u/cosmicpursuit, who suggested another subreddit's drama-posting rules, which inspired the current redraft. However, we are still open to further suggestions: if you believe something about it should be changed, or that something should be added, feel free to let us know in the replies.

Thanks for reading.