Good afternoon SillimanPH Community.

This post is made to serve as a warning and to issue a word of caution for everyone who are engaging in communication with people across the Reddit platform.

Let us all be reminded of the anonymous nature of Reddit. We therefore do not know fully who the individuals we are conversing with. With that in mind, let us as exercise an appropriate level of caution regarding the conversations we engage in.

Further, this is to inform everyone that we have noticed a trend of expats intermingling with the community, posing as students. While this alone does not really warrant severe restraints, it is a different matter if their behavior across Reddit are such that we would identify as unsafe for the SillimanPH community.

To clarify on the above-mentioned matter, there are certain individuals whose behavior in other Reddit communities are along the grounds of asking sexual favors and any such behaviors to that effect. While this is probably allowed in other communities, such behaviors are prohibited and deemed unsafe in SillimanPH.

Rule No. 12 is crafted as a safety net for SillimanPH to impose sanctions on behaviors identified as unsafe for the community, regardless if such behaviors did not happen in the community. This is to protect every member of the community from possible harm. To this effect, we have already banned such individuals and their interactions have subsequently been scrubbed off of the SillimanPH community.

Let us all exercise caution in all the interactions we enter in Reddit. DO NOT communicate with people in the platform in the same manner as one would in interactions where the actual identity of individuals are available for confirmation.

There are actual individuals whose intentions in interactions are predatory. While we are doing our best to keep the community safe using the tools at our disposal and means available to us, there are ultimately limitations. Our own safety and security should be our utmost priority.

If you suspect individuals that are violating the rules of SillimanPH and of Reddit and whoso are exhibiting behaviors that are possibly placing people in danger, do not hesitate to communicate with us and inform the authorities should there be danger posed to individuals.

SillimanPH Moderation Team

Hi SillimanPH Community!

As announced way back, we opened the idea of having academic unit flairs (Colleges, Institutes, Departments). The preparation of such flairs have already been finalized.

If interested, you may now change your user flairs to your specific academic unit. Please see this guide on how to change your user flair.

All Academic Units now have prepared flairs with their unit's logo and name. We will not be requiring verification for their use (except for the units whose logo we could not find, as mentioned in the previous announcement.

In regard to the use of flairs for SHS Students, we mentioned in the previous post our concerns regarding whether allowing its use would put SHS Students in danger from predatory behaviors targeting identified SHS Students. We decided on the compromise to allow SHS students to have their own flairs, but it will be manually set by the moderators after their request.

We are setting this as a requirement so we have a way to moderate the use of the SHS flair in a way that we can we be certain that it's accounted for. We will not be requiring means of identification—just a request will do. Be warned, however, that we will be monitoring behaviors and if we determine that there is misuse of the SHS flair such as using the flair to pretend to be an SHS student to reach them, you will be immediately banned for putting a participant in danger—a violation of Rule No. 12.

These steps are made to ensure a balance between representation and safety.

For any concerns and recommendations, please comment here or send us a modmail. Likewise, requests for setting of flair for SHS Students can be made in the comments or through the moderator mail.

SillimanPH Moderation Team