April 1st is over, and a reminder to the community.

If you didn’t stop by yesterday and wonder why there’s so many troll posts, it was April Fool’s. Hope you all had a chance to get some venting out and/or have some fun!

It’s been a while since we had a community reminder, and we’ve grown a lot and have a ton of newcomers, so here it is.

*Short Version:*

**Be nice!**

*Long Version:*

This is a place for people to ask questions about life here in the USA, and for us to discuss and give our opinions about what we think it’s like.

We’ve had a lot of genuine questions and nice people that have been looked down on, ridiculed, and attacked lately. That’s not cool. Read our rules. (And please give the mod team less work.)

Just because a question seems obvious to you, doesn’t mean it’s obvious to everyone (instead, it makes you a great person to teach someone else).

Just because you’ve been here a few months and seen the same question a couple times doesn’t mean it’s not worth answering any more. News flash, there’s a lot of people in the world and they aren’t going to read everything we’ve ever done here. (Sure, if you see something spammed every week, report it if we don’t catch it.)

Finally, this sub is NOT a place to “get revenge” or “get back” at people from other parts of the world that may have been mean to you elsewhere on Reddit or the internet at large. You have issues with people from another country? Take it elsewhere.

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It’s okay to have different ideas here. It’s okay to disagree. It’s okay to argue about ideas.

It’s NOT okay to attack other users.

(And please stop with the whole “they did it first so it’s okay” thing. You’re not a little kid, and if you are you shouldn’t be on Reddit. Proper response is to do something like report it, message the mods, ignore the user, etc.)

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Love you all. Let’s have some fun and learn more about each other. (And hopefully another mod will re-write this better…I know I get long winded.)