Buckle up, babes, cuz we got a lot to say. We have had an explosion of activity since the Grammys and wanted to update y'all on some changes and remind our new friends about the rules here.

And yeah, maybe some of this is over-explaining, but we would rather give you all the information because we value transparency and genuine feedback.

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🏈 THE FOOTBALL

With the Superbowl coming up, make sure you are flaunting the right flair! You can assign your flair to yourself and change it at any time. We've added some new ones and removed some duplicates, so check the list. Here are some of the best ones for Superbowl Sunday:

• Mr. 2 Catches for 4 Yards Swift
• Bills Fan
• Fly Eagles Fly
• ABC Fan (Anyone But Chiefs)
• Go Birds

⛔ NO BRIGADING

We know that a lot of people on Reddit don't like us. That's fine. We stay to ourselves. This subreddit has not allowed screenshots from other subs, discussion posts of other subs, or crossposting since at least June 2024. Swifties keep trying to push the narrative that we are watching all their comments and make fun of them in here.

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In the past week, we have had to ban at least two three people who took our snark topics and went to argue with Swifties in their own sub. There's no need for that.

There are Swifties who read everything here, then go report back to their own subreddits about what we talk about. That is far, far sadder than anything we do in here. Don't sink to their level.

We've also seen a huge uptick in not just abusive modmail, but straight-out threatening modmail. Again, if you are so pressed that we dislike Taylor that you send death threats directly to us, the beautiful and charismatic mods, you are far more pathetic than anything ever said in this sub.

↪️ RULE REVAMP

We have redone two of our rules.

⚠️ No Reposts: This rule has been updated to include content that is better suited to the relevant megathread or an existing discussion thread. With the Grammys particularly, we saw a lot of people who wanted to post their thoughts as a new post instead of commenting in the existing discussion. That's not fair to the people who are posting in the megathread as intended.

And with the Eras Tour over, we anticipate our traffic to mostly come from these one-off events. We want to make sure everyone has a fair chance to share their thoughts, and this rule change will help us do just that.

⚠️ No Low-Effort Posts: This rule has been updated to No Low-Context Posts. This rule is intended to improve the overall quality of discussion. Some examples of Low-Context Posts include...

• A post about an article without a link to the article
• A post with a photo from three years ago implying it just happened
• A post about a common topic that doesn't add a new angle for discussion

We want to make sure we are snarking on the facts, which means we enforce a higher priority on sourced statements and descriptive titles. Unlike other subs, we do not guarantee approval to the person who posted the link first. If an event happens (such as Travis' misstep about Trump), we will look at the first crop of posts and choose the one that has the best title, description, links, and other context to start a fully sourced discussion.

👎 MODSSUCK

Occasionally we get it wrong! In the past week, we were making an average of 630 moderator actions a day. In other words, a human moderator clicked a button an average of 25+ times *per hour,* 24 hours a day for the entire week of our Grammys coverage.

If your post was missed, please reach out to us and we will be happy to look into it. And please remember we are only human and rely on your reports to help us keep this sub in shape!

The revamped rules will help us streamline our moderation, leading to fewer mistakes and more equal visibility for every poster. And we do this all for you, for free! If you would like to send Steam gift codes to modmail so we could play Civ 7, that would be nice too.

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💩 Shitpost Sunday is postponed

Once again, we are postponing Shitpost Sunday to Shitpost Monday. This will give y'all time to pull together some great Superbowl memes and we can celebrate all day on Monday. We will also post a follow-up megathread on Monday to share your reflections on the game and where TnT go from here.

🎲 Superbowl Bingo is coming

We are working on our Superbowl bingo board and encourage y'all to make your own! We will put up a megathread on Saturday to share these boards, make predictions for the game, and generally pre-game the main event.

💝 Thanks for being an amazing community

We are so grateful for all our members who have contributed to some really fun discussions here! This has been an incredible week for our sub and we couldn't be happier with the amount of activity and deep discussions we are seeing. And, as always, if you have comments or suggestions, modmail is always open.

hope this helps xx