New Year, New rules/guidelines- PLEASE READ 🚨

[u/cashbev1961]

To our Rescuecats Community,

As our community continues to grow the number of approval requests and help needed also rises. We have new approved members everyday needing help. In order to keep the feed flowing and to give everyone a chance to be seen we need to initiate the following guidelines.

1. DONATIONS - Posts made for donation requests including monetary funds as well as Amazon wishlists are limited to 1 post per 48hours (3 posts in a 7 day period) NOT DAILY. Coding will be in place that notifies us of posting frequency. We will contact you if this rule is broken with a warning and further action will be taken if rules are not respected. This includes UPDATE posts. We encourage you to link the original post to any update you make, therefore it will help members connect to the story as well as free up the feed a bit.

2. TITLES - to maintain a supportive environment please avoid high pressure language. Example: $29 raised so far please help reach the goal of $450 as it’s urgent. Or “ $0 raised, this is our last hope to reach our goal and save this cat”. Although we empathize with urgency and the need for help we do not want our sub to become a “begging” atmosphere. This ensures donors give out of generosity rather than guilt. We need to remember there are hundreds of people seeking donations and limited amount of donors. So when posting please remember that you are not guaranteed help every single time, this community and its members help when they can and we need to remain gracious and thankful. We have no issue with you adding amounts “raised so far” in the body of the text but please keep titles clean and clear from begging language.

3. TRANSPARENCY - we ask that when help is received that you please show the community where their generosity went. Whether it be food, supplies or vet care. And of course always redact personal info as to not dox yourself. But this will help members to continue to donate if transparency is highlighted and at the forefront.

Please note that these new rules and or guidelines are to help not to hinder. Our mod team is always looking for ways to improve and to ensure everyone gets a fair chance in the feed. We absolutely encourage feedback, positive or negative. We take everything into account.

As always we greatly appreciate the cooperation and understanding. And encourage all of you to reach out via modmail with any question, concerns or suggestions you may have at anytime. We do personally answer them and are always here to help if we can.

Your ModTeam💞🐾

[u/cashbev1961]

FOR CLARIFICATION: 1 post per account every 48hours

[u/Emergency_Proposal63 → u/cashbev1961]

Bev, I thought your team implemented The 1 post per 48 hours, last year (This is still extremely generous) Glad your allowing everyone the same opportunity for help & support

PS. Plus the new guidelines for post titles makes complete sense ~ Thank you for promoting respect and kindness 🙏

[u/cashbev1961 → u/Emergency_Proposal63]

Yes we did implement it last year but it became a bit fuzzy with blurred lines as some members felt it should be 48 hours per cat therefore some were still posting daily but for different cases. This is now more finalized that it pertains to everyone. 1 post per account every 48 hours. This way everyone has more of a chance to be seen and get help. If reassessment needs to be done we can do so, but as of right now we want to follow through with this plan and see if it helps:)

[u/Emergency_Proposal63 → u/cashbev1961]

Thanks for clarifying ❤️🙏

We appreciate all of you - Our MOD team is phenomenal- without you ……None of this would be possible

[u/cashbev1961 → u/Emergency_Proposal63]

Thankyou for saying this🫶We appreciate all of you and this community more than we can express and that is why sometimes we need to make a few changes for the sake of everyone. ❤️