Welcome to /r/australia, please engage in a positive fashion! Check out the rules below.
Users engaging in personal attacks may be banned.
Submissions with altered headlines may be removed.
Image macros/memes are banned, post them to /r/ausmemes.
Rules
1
Novelty, troll, or bot account
No novelty accounts, accounts used for trolling, toxic accounts, accounts used for ban evasion, accounts which mimic other users or famous individuals, or bots.
2
User editorialised headline
Submissions with user editorialised or sensationalised headlines. Political submissions must use the title of the article, they may not be altered via a twit. Unless there is a compelling reason to change it - use the article/video title!
3
Meme/image macro
No image macros, memes, upside down jokes, low quality tweets, AI generated content, stock images, scams, spam and other low content submissions and images. Please submit them to r/AusMemes.
4
Unrelated to Australia/Australians
Submissions must contain content that is specifically about Australia or Australians. Submissions must not editorialise a link between a current issue and something happening elsewhere in the world (see #2).
5
Subreddit drama
Submissions and comments made for the purpose of creating subreddit drama or harassing others users.
6
Low quality political submission
Self.posts about politics, political speculation, political questions (etc) must meet the quality standards set out in the subreddit feature wiki and political submissions should only be made by accounts with more than two months recent active participation within this community. Political comments in submissions marked [NP] or no-politics.
7
Paywall, duplicate or unnecessarily low quality
No paywalled articles, twits linking to paywalled articles, empty self-posts, duplicate or substantially similar submissions, submissions made via URL shorteners or twits linking to one of the aforementioned.
8
Brigading
Brigading and astroturfing within, to, or from this subreddit, will result in a ban. This includes appealing for up/down votes, using FB or YT to direct traffic here, new accounts on political hot-topics and or any submissions from regular participants of brigading subs.
9
Abuse, threats, racism and bigotry
Threats, personal insults/abuse, ad hominem attacks, aimed at other redditors or offensive comments including bigotry, racism and homophobia are not welcome.
10
Single-focus or disinformation account
Accounts that mostly post about a single topic (politics, men's rights, NBN, etc), spread scientific disinformation or pose bad-faith questions based upon disinformation.
11
Spam and self-promotion
Posts/comments made for the purposes of promoting products, SEO, promoting other social-media channels and other subreddits.