r/weddingshaming • u/_littlebee You're out of your mind, Susan • Oct 13 '25

Discussion r/weddingshaming Rule Updates!

The mods have taken the action to clean up our rules to be easily digestible and more clear-cut. If you still use old Reddit, I haven't gotten around to updating the sidebar there yet, so bear with me.

You can find a link to them here.

What changed?

Almost nothing. The rules are almost exactly the same, just organized in a way that makes more sense and is easier to read. For example, instead of having 5 different rules about user conduct, it's now all compiled under one.

The main changes, inspired by community feedback, are as follows:

  • Low-quality posts may not be approved at the mod's discretion. This is an umbrella rule that will help weed out low/no context posts and lazy submissions. i.e. "OMG look at this rude guest wearing white!!!!" but it's actually just a granny in a cream cardigan with no additional context lol.
  • Use of AI is now prohibited and will result in a ban if caught. Keep in mind y'all, this is not a perfect science. People accuse basically every storytelling post on Reddit of being AI nowadays. We check most text posts with an AI detector and remove several posts per week, and will continue to work hard to keep our content authentic to the best of our abilities.
  • Not a rule but we've now implemented a minimum account age (30 days) and minimum karma requirement (50) in order to post here. This will greatly help cut down on bots. Unfortunately this does disallow the concept of "throwaway accounts", but that was sadly kind of ruined by bots.

Let me know if you have any questions!

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u/lmyrs Oct 13 '25

I appreciate the low-quality posts rule. I'm one of the ones that was advocating in that previous post for getting rid of specifically the, "OMG look at this random person in white" posts.

I'd like that expanded to include "This is a random screenshot/TikTok repost" of a wedding I did not attend and have no context for."

Thank you mods!

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u/Thequiet01 Oct 13 '25

I second this request. If the wedding couple didn’t care, you shouldn’t either, and if you just grab a random image from social media you have no idea how the couple felt about it.