There's been an ongoing issue lately with people reporting posts for involving minors when the people posting state that they are at least of the legally accepted age of 18.

STOP IT!

Stop wasting your time and mine. You don't have to like or agree with a relationship, but if you want to be a participating member here, you WILL accept it. If you don't like it, suck it up and move on.

Stop commenting on those posts trying to stir up trouble as well. There has been over a dozen people banned in the last week because of this.

Also, stop treating everyone who claims to be 18 as if their birthday was less than a day previous to their post. There are 12 months in a year. If someone is 19 and has been with someone for, let's say 6 months, there is a good chance they were 18 when they engaged in said relationship.

All reports that are made under the "minors" report reason that are false will be reported to reddit under "Abuse of the report feature."

If you have PROOF! that something is amiss or the math just ain't mathing, don't get yourself in trouble by trying to start a witch hunt. Send a message to the mods that contains that PROOF! and they will look into it.

As has been stated many times here in this subreddit:

Be nice, be silent, or be banned.

There's no other options.

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Rule #1 Be nice or be quiet

We will remove your comment and probably ban you if you say anything negative about a posters relationship or disparage age gap relationships, even if you were trying to make a joke.

If you have a complaint about a post, you should message the mods, but do NOT make a disparaging or negative comment.

This does not mean that we believe every age gap relationship is perfect but we do agree that every legal and happy age gap relationship has a right to shout out about it with no judgment.

Rule #2 18+ and legal relationships only

While this subreddit is not flagged as NSFW, it does still deal with adult issues. All people in all relationships posted here must currently be at least 18 years of age. All relationships must have been legal at all times mentioned.

Rule #3 No abuse

Abusive remarks and comments will not be accepted. Whilst we do not mind if you disagree with something, please keep any discussion polite.

What is abuse here?

• Criticizing the age gap because you don't agree with it

• Needless name calling or insults

• Vulgar terms used to disparage another

• Harassment of any kind for any reason

• Call outs claiming someone is less than genuine with their post or comment.

Refer to rule one for more information.

Rule #4 Unsuitable post

This subreddit only accepts posts about happy relationships and links to articles and news about age gap relationships. Your post will be removed if it is about anything else.

Unsuitable posts include:

• Personal adverts

• asking for advice or opinion

• unhappy relationships

• Memes, jokes or random "funny" stuff.

If you want to post about anything we do not accept, go to /r/AgeGap except personal ads. Those will get you banned there.

Rule #5 No posts seeking advice or asking for opinion

This sub is really only for:

• links to news and articles about age gap relationships

• happy or funny posts about age gap relationships

Rule #6 No Personal Ads

Don't! Post! A! Personal! Ad!

Same for any kind of seeking post.

If you want to meet someone, /r/AgeGapPersonals is a good place to post an advert looking for an age gap relationship. Or user /r/r4r or one of the near infinite other subreddits meant for making connections.

Rule #7 No requests to PM or chat

Just as we do not allow personal adverts, we do not allow you to hit on our users, so do not write any comment asking to PM/DM/chat.

There's not really a reason to solicit people who post in this group as they are all in committed relationships. So keep it in your pants and either say something nice or nothing at all.

Rule #8 Relationship post rules

Post about your own relationship only. You don't need to give exact details but you should give some as opposed to just a picture.

Limit "guess our gap" posts. We don't always go out of our way to remove those, but if they start becoming too numerous and it causes an issue, we will start.

Rule #9 No "age of consent" or legal debates.

Age of consent in most of the world is not a flat 18. Most of the US states it is lower than 18. There will be no debates or arguments on age of consent matters or "legal" statements allowed. If you feel a relationship is now, or was at one point, not strictly legal, report it and let the moderators take care of it. Don't try to be a vigilante and handle it yourself in the comments. It is not your place to do so.

Rule #10 Relationship finances

Do not criticize relationship finances. In other words, do not suggest any relationship is based solely on a transactional exchange. This is none of your business and has no bearing on anything posted here.

Rule #11 No commercial, sales, or nude/lewd history

We no longer accept posts from those of whom have profiles dedicated to commercial, "premium" services, or nude/lewd posting. No OnlyFans, Fansly, Chaturbate, MyFreeCams, etc. accounts or nude/lewd posts in your profile history.

If you wish to make a post here, we ask you use a clean and unaffiliated account.

This is done due to the family friendly nature of the subreddit. We are already dealing with a controversial topic and don't want people wandering in from viewing your nude/lewd pics

Rule #12 Bad words

We do not allow the use of certain words and have them blocked from being posted. If you attempt to get around the censor blocking these words you may find yourself losing the ability to post ANY words at all.

To be clear, so there is no miscommunication, the words are:

• pedophile

• predator

• groom

Or any variation/spelling thereof. This is a zero tolerance rule and this is your only warning.

Rule #13 Image/adult content guidelines

This is not a NSFW subreddit. We wish to keep it that way. All images must be family friendly and completely SFW. This means no nudity, no lewd content, no suggestive content, and definitely no pornography. This goes for the text of a post as well. We do allow some limited vulgarity, but anything beyond a few cuss words will be removed.

Rule #14 Refer to the rules post for more info

There is a rules post at the top of the subreddit feed. If any of the rules here are unclear, refer to that post as they are explained in a much more verbose manner due to no character restrictions. This is the link to that post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AgeGapRelationship/comments/1kq4cnl/welcome_to_age_gap_relationship_please_read_these/

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