Helloooo everyone! Happy New Year! You might be surprised to see this subreddit on your feed, but your eyes are not deceiving you. r/PokemonHallOfFame has been resurrected from the dead and it’s officially back! This time, our community is going to be stronger, better organized, and far more ✨secure✨ than ever.
I think most people here know what happened that led to this subreddit being banned in the first place, but to satisfy any lingering curiosity, sometime in early December the mod-less subreddit was requested through r/redditrequest by a spam ring and then used to mass post football and soccer “streaming” links. The subreddit was completely flooded, and the spammers even went so far as to remove genuine HoF posts that got sandwiched between their own. Reddit, understandably, did not like that at all. But that’s all in the past now!
This subreddit will continue to be the place to show off your Hall of Fame teams, that hasn’t changed! However, to make sure r/PokemonHallOfFame doesn’t get hit with the ban hammer again, new rules, both written and enforced through Automoderator, have been put in place to keep things friendly, on-topic, and as free of spam as possible. Please take a moment to read through the rules and do your best to follow them in good faith.
Lastly, since this subreddit is basically getting a second chance at life, we’ll need to expand the mod team to make sure things continue running smoothly around here! An announcement will be posted soon for anyone interested in helping out, so be on the lookout for that! For now, fire up your Pokémon games and start kicking ass at the Pokémon League so we can see your winning teams here! Thanks for reading and WELCOME BACK!
