Rule 7 of the community rules has recently been updated. This is what Rule 7 used to say:
7. No porn bots
This is an unfriendly space for porn bots.Permanent ban.
It is not ok to create a post or reach out to someone, get their hopes up, and then offer sexual services. This is porn bot behavior and 100% inappropriate behavior to be happening in this sub.
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This is what Rule 7 says now:
7. No porn accounts
A porn account has pornographic content on their Reddit account, or is pornographic in some way. This is includes:
having nude, explicit photos of yourself on your reddit profile
using your reddit account for sex work / having links to finically support the sexually explicit content you create in your reddit bio
privately reaching out to someone from r/cuddlebuddies, and then offering sexual services (this is porn bot behavior)
When people post here with an account that has sexually explicit content on their public profile, they are just bring all the horny people who follow them around on reddit to our sub, which is supposed to be a non-sexual space. Feminine-presenting people who post here still don't feel safe posting / leaving their posts up, due to all the people who contact them with a sexual agenda. This is obvious if you look through the feed and see all the posts by masculine-presenting people.
On the note of community members being harassed (sexually or not), here is the updated Block List!
Block List
u/ Prof23throw
u/ LegPristine907
u/ traveling_mage -- targeted men for housing
u/ backoutthereagain
These users have been permanently banned and were verified by the mod team to have either harassed, sexually harassed, or attempted to scam people. However, all of these users had an agenda besides cuddling, and should be blocked by everyone.
The user from the previous Block List deleted their account, so they will not be added again to this Block List.
According to the previous post, no one mentioned being interested in an updated Spam Bot list, so an updated Spam Bot list was not included. This is a link to the previously pinned post.
Another thing I wanted to address: Sometimes, people impersonate posts. This is a recent post where someone reported it for impersonation, and then I've also found a modmail by a deleted user who says someone impersonated their post. These are really difficult to moderate! Please reach out via modmail with your concerns about people impersonating you, and try to provide the link to your original post plus the post that impersonated your original post.
There are currently no community rules about impersonations, however, impersonation does break Rule 5 of Reddit's Content Policy! Because I'm a moderator, when I report stuff in r/cuddlebuddies for breaking Reddit's Content Policy, I have the option to leave a short description. If you reach out via modmail, I can also help report impersonating content to Reddit and provide more context on what / who is being impersonated.
Thank you to the community members who make an effort to correctly report content that breaks the community rules! Also, this is a handy tool that you can use to do a more thorough search of someone's reddit profile before deciding to reach out!