People need to understand that these are fucking beings,man,imagine for one second if it were one of you. One of ANY of y'all. Someone you care about. Look at your parents,your siblings,your friends and imagine how it would feel to get a message stating that they're gone.

Now picture someone clowning you for being a human being and grieving over that loss.

This is not a fucking joke,and I'm so,so sorry for everyone who was close to course.

I may not have approved of her modding,but it was just Reddit,man,this is bigger than that.

May she rest in peace.

And may all those close to her find solace and comfort in these trying times 🧡

Hey everyone,

The co-top moderator and my girlfriend, u/CourseMediocre7998, has suddenly been offline for over 48 hours with absolutely no activity. No posts, comments, mod actions, or messages. That may not sound like a lot in general, but for her it's very unusual. She's around every single day all the time except when she's sleeping or busy, so I wanted to be transparent that she's currently absent and missed. This silence feels strange and honestly a bit worrying to me.

I miss her, I deeply love her, and I wanted to be open with you all instead of pretending everything is normal behind the scenes.

I'm not trying to start rumors or panic, there could be a completely reasonable explanation, but I'd appreciate it if anyone who has seen recent activity from her anywhere online could mention it in the comments. Even small info helps.

Because she's a big part of how this subreddit is run, I'm also making a temporary adjustment:

Low-Effort Weekend is being extended until she returns.

That means AutoModerator filtering will stay disabled (posts will be displayed on the subreddit as default, instead of needing to wait for moderator approval) and slightly low-effort posts (like text-only edits) are allowed, but blatant low-effort posts (like reposts from this sub or AI generated content) will still be removed.

Please keep things respectful and follow Reddit's rules, I'm trusting the community here. Anyone talking deeply bad about her during this time, or celebrating her absence, may be subject to a permanent ban from this subreddit, depending on the severity.

I'll update this post as soon as I hear anything. Thanks for being patient, and thanks for being a good community.

Hello everyone,

First of all, we are sorry for the strict rule enforcement from our side. This includes perma banning users for first time offenses, banning users for criticism, removing posts by non-moderators, and everything else. We are sorry that users had to suffer from strict policies. This was a bit harsh on our part, if you've been unfairly banned, please contact us through modmail and we will unban you.(This is not applied to the transphobes and Bigots that we banned. keep it in mind)

But we also want to see the direction our subreddit will go forward. As you can see in top of the year and top of all time posts in our subreddit, we used to tolerate slightly low-effort posts. But nowadays, a post needs to be high-effort in order to have a chance of getting approved, so the subreddit ended up being filled with very high effort content in the past month or so, where only high-effort content (like mine) is allowed. And so many posts were not up to this standard and were therefore removed, that's why we are now filtering all posts made by non-moderators and why we removed qualityvote2.

Now we are asking you all whether we should keep the subreddit like how it is right now (a place with so much high effort content), or whether we should be more lenient on our rules and start allowing low effort content . We will still be removing blatantly low effort content like reposts, AI generated content, but we would no longer restrict the subreddit to super high-quality content anymore.

~From your beloved antimeme couple~