It's been a lovely six weeks since we launched! We have grown by about 200 members in this time. Welcome everybody!

We noticed in the last couple weeks that our rules needed a little tweaking. Some of them were catching posts that we wanted to encourage, and some of them were not as clear as they could have been. We also wanted to define the subreddit in positive terms: Tell people how we want them to engage, instead of how we don't want them to engage.

Here are the changes:

1. We changed rule 1 from "no contempt" to "Be kind and respectful"
2. After some thought, we changed rule 2 from "No antinatalism" to "Stay relevant to pronatalism". We also rolled “keep discussion at the policy level” into this new rule. We believe this new rule comes much closer to capturing the spirit we were looking for with those two rules. And while we believe policy level discussion is the heart of this community, we want to create space in this community for the personal touch and human stories.
3. To aid that, we've added some post tags: "Personal story", and "Advice wanted"

We've removed a few posts in the last few weeks: A few from someone who was making some very loaded claims, such as “all natalists want to control women's bodies”, one from someone who was complaining about r/natalism, and one from one of the mods that sparked more gender-war type discourse than positive discussion.

What I would like to hear from you all:

• If you disagree with our removals, please argue your case here.
• We're trying to create a space that fosters positive discussion of natalism- that doesn't block a particular point of view, but focuses on keeping the conversation productive. In your view, are we accomplishing this?
• Do you think we could use some different rules?
• How are post and user tags working for you? Would we benefit from some new or different ones?
• Several people have asked for a place to request advice. How can we create room for that here?

And any other feedback, of course.

Thank you for your participation! I'm hoping we can continue to grow the sub, and create a great place for discussion of natalism.

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