A Massive Rule Overhaul

Greetings r/food,I'm going to skip the chatter and cut right to the chase--it's hard to post to this subreddit. Too hard. Over the 12 years since this subreddit's creation, rules have been added, changed, and removed. While the changes have been for good reason (at the time), it led to what we have now: lengthy rules with multi-paragraph descriptions.That all changes now. Moving forward, we're slashing the rules down to only four simple, understandable, rules:Titles May Only Contain the Food's Name. The title of your post may only have the name of the food pictured. That's it. A good example of this is Spaghetti Marinara, Apple Pie, or A Triple Cheeseburger. The goal of this rule is to cut down on the backstory in the titles and put more emphasis on the food.Add a Tag at the Front of Your Title. Tags are things (in brackets) you put at the front of your title, so users know whether you ate it or made it. It also helps sort posts. From this point on, we'll have three "tags": [Homemade], [I ate], and [Pro/Chef]. You can read about the three tags in the full rules in the sidebar.No Low-Quality Posts or Comments. We understand this rule is a bit vague compared to the rest, but we want to keep the posts and comments to a high standard. This means no self-promotion/spam, no memes, no dietary activism, and no videos, and more. From now on, users may only post their own images.Be Nice. This is the general rule the requires you to be respectful and follow Redditquette. We don't want people hating on each other's food in hurtful ways, calling food s**t, and doing generally bad things. Point aside, feel free to share your own food opinions in a respectful way.In addition to all of the rule changes, we plan on making a few changes to the sidebar widgets, to simplify it a bit.As we put these changes in place and iron out the kinks, we expect issues. Please bear with us during this overhaul. As always, send us a modmail if you have a question or feedback. And remember to report posts and comments that break the rules.Signing off for now,- Squid and the r/food Mod TeamP.S. You can look forward to even more changes in the future (for example, our first Moderator Community Award). via /r/food https://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/exg935/a_massive_rule_overhaul/?utm_source=ifttt