PCMR Etiquette
PCMRetiquette has a lot in common with Reddiquette, but is tailored for our community.
Please read the PCMR Rules and PCMR Etiquette. Review these occasionally as they may change over time.
Follow ‘Wheaton’s Law’ aka “Don’t be a dick.” Be open to opinions you may disagree with. Don't be gratuitously aggressive when discussing with users who do not share your opinion.
Use proper grammar and spelling when possible, but remember that although you need to participate in our community by using the English language, PCMR is global so not everyone in here is a native English speaker and will make mistakes.
Do not use throwaways, fake accounts and other methods to artificially promote your opinion or self-promote. Also, if you are spotted commenting or posting with obvious and abundant AI created text, you will be seen as a bot, and hence banned.
Use an "Innocent until proven guilty" mentality. Mistakes happen, so try not to be quick to judgment.
Keep submissions and titles factual. Provide sources and evidence to back your claims. Use the original source when possible.
Check for duplicates before posting. Redundant posts divide the conversation and add nothing new.
Report spam and rule-breaking content you find, but do not abuse this function.
Unless there is obvious proof that a submission is fake, or is “karma whoring”, please avoid the accusation. It can ruin the experience for the other members of the community.
Vote If you think something contributes, upvote; if it's off topic, downvote. Just because something isn’t for you, it doesn’t mean that you should downvote it. The subreddit has thousands of posts a week, and not every post is for everyone. Consider Upvoting giveaways as a way of saying ‘thanks’ to OP, even if you don't participate.
Browse the new submissions page and upvote the ones you like. Regard it, perhaps, as a public service.
Actually read a post before you vote on it (as opposed to just basing your vote on the title, which may just be OP’s opinion).
Don’t spam PCMR with your own content, especially if you don’t interact with us in other ways.
Hold off on posting the same thing too frequently. Posting too much can result in restrictions or even a ‘Shadow Ban’ from the admins.
Don’t make comments that lack content. Phrases such as "this", "lol", “F”, “K”, and "ayy" are not witty, original, or funny, and do not add anything to the discussion. Same goes for comments announcing your vote.
Don’t mass downvote someone else's posts. Vote the content, not the user.
