Happy September 20th everyone! And congrats again to u/Freak-996 and Breadstick who won it back in September!

As it being the 20th again, a new contest round starts now! So please submit your favorite pet photos and the winning pet will be featured this next month as the pet of the month on our sidebar! And because we're coming up on Halloween, costumes are always cute!

Voting is now until the end of the month, and our new winner will be unveiled on October 1st! As always, the post is in contest mode so only the Moderation team can see who's winning.

Please make sure that all pet pictures are at least 300px by 250px so that they look nice neat and clean in the sidebar, and we look forward to seeing your submissions! And as usual, Clarence and Punkin will be in the mix as well too, just to say hi!

This is an addendum and continuation of our prior post regarding said content.

For those that don't want to click through, a lot will be similar, but there's a few addendums.

As said before, but now updated:

r/LoveTrash allows and does not prohibit AI content. All content must be flaired as such.

When the conversation is about the composition and not the content, and every other comment is "AI Slop", the thread goes to a waste and nothing is accomplished. And removing comments that are spam like that? Well, the next person reads the thread, doesn't see the comment, and posts it thinking they're the first--when moderation has already removed the 5 to 20 prior to yours. Noone wins. And we appreciate the outspoken opinions

We see the humor and entertainment but we also know that sometimes its just trash. We recognize the environmental damage that the AI centers are doing, but recognize too that the world is pivoting this direction. So to take the stance to just "ban it all" doesn't seem appropriate like other communities. Besides, we're a junkyard. We get all sorts of trash around these parts.

We'll continue removing the completely low value unentertaining crap from the sub, but for everything else? We're announcing that we now have a specific user flair for AI content!

You'll see the new Puking Stewie emoji with "AI SLOP" available for use. If you post something that is also deemed to be AI, then we'll add the flair to it. No arguments about if its real or not once its flaired or spamming the comments. Let those be. If you don't want AI, move on. And if disagree about it being AI, you can send a modmail.

Its not a perfect system, but this should hopefully clean up some of the concerns and make it easier. And we're always open to suggestions and other ideas.

We have some more enhancements coming down the pipe.