50k Members Milestone! Rules, Proposals, and New Info Inside

Congrats /r/CCW!We have reached 50,000 subscribers! A very impressive feat! Here are some other stats that you might find interesting:Traffic StatsHighest page views per month: 1,022,182 (May 2017)Average page views month: ~900,000Highest Subscription Day: 81 (11/6/17)Average Subscriptions per Day: 60Highest Traffic in the week: Monday (~30k views)Lowest Traffic in the week: Saturday (~23k views)Top Rated Post: Security Guard with Fantastic Reaction Time. [X-Post: /r/wtf] [NSFW]Most Commented Post: What do you say to authorities without incriminating yourself if (god forbid) you ever have to use deadly force?Mod Stats for the last 30 daysAccounts Banned/Unbanned: 11/3Approved Posts: 548 (18 per day)Stickies Applied: 27Distinguished Comments: 209Total Mod Actions: 1692 (56 per day)Proposed Rules ChangesWe also wanted to propose rule changes to make them a little simpler, smaller, and less redundant. The simpler and smaller they are, the more chances that people will read and follow the rules. We are going to take the stance that our rules are an addition to reddit's rules. The enforcement will be the same but we feel we don't need to call out reddit's sidewide rules:Reddit's sitewide rules are enforced and below are /r/CCW specific rules.Content Not Applicable: Any post that does not relate to (a) the carrying of a weapon in a legal manner; or (b) any post that does not relate to self-defense.Spam: (a) Any posting, including self-posts, links, and comments, posted to this subreddit for the primary purpose of getting pagehits for personal blogs, e.g. "clickbait". (b) Posts for the sole purpose of soliciting business for private interests. Bloggers and Sellers view this page to see what you can and cannot do.Harassment: (a) Posting material for the sole purpose of inflaming the users of this subreddit. (b) Personally attacking other users of this subreddit. (c) Posts containing racist or otherwise inflammatory material towards a particular group of people.Politics: Any post that is political in nature must be directly related to self-defense. General "gun control" or otherwise political posts are prohibited.Post Descriptions: All link posts must contain a description in the comments. This description must contain, at the very least, 10 words describing the content and how it relates to CCW or self-defense.Firearm Images: Pictures of just a firearm are not allowed. If you're posting a picture of your firearm, it must contain another piece of your carry equipment (holster, belt, etc).This change removes:Illegal Content (covered in reddits rules)Link Shorteners (covered in reddits rules)Vote Brigading (covered in reddits rules)As mentioned the enforcement will not change. You might have noticed that some of the rules we are keeping are still called out in reddit's sitewide rules (harassment and spam) however those rules are exercised often and we prefer to use our definition instead and keep them as a reminder.So, what say you /r/CCW subscribers? There are 50k now, so it shall be quite a discussion! As always, this is a proposal and we will not implement unless we get the go ahead from our members./r/CCW Mods via /r/CCW http://ift.tt/2hlPhz9