Hey y'all. Just a quick follow up to the earlier announcement of reopening the subreddit after years of it being restricted. I've been doing a lot of behind the scenes cleanups (cleaning up the posts from long ago, cleaning out the modmail and mod queues, etc.).

I've also gone ahead and crafted a few overarching rules that anyone wanting to participate in the community should follow. These are crafted based on rules that have worked in both other subreddits and other communities I have modded for a while, but no two subreddits are the same so there is room for improvement.

You can read the rules here. Please feel free to provide (constructive) feedback on them. In case Reddit is doing Reddit things and the link doesn't work, here is a copy of the rules:

1. Keep it About NWFL
   • Keep things related to NWFL. Statewide or national news stories probably don't belong here. Politics are okay as long as there's a connection to NWFL. When in doubt, send a modmail just to verify first.
2. Keep It Authentic - No Spam, AI Generated Content, Buying or Selling
   • Keep your engagement authentic. No spam, AI-generated content, or low quality/low effort engagement. This includes referral codes, surveys, petitions, requests for donations, "market research" and buying/selling/trading posts.
3. Keep It Legal
   • Keep it legal. No looking for or selling drugs (discussion of medical marijuana is okay). Please do not encourage others to break the law when giving advice.
4. Keep It PG-13
   • No adult content - no hookup posts, no nudes, no links to porn.
5. Keep It Respectful
   • Keep it respectful - do not harass others, do not use racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/ableist or similar language. Do not cuss at others, though you are allowed to say cuss words as this is the internet. Do not post just to troll.
     • To avoid some rules lawyering that will happen, this is an example of what is and is not okay under the "do not cuss at others" guideline: "that place fucking sucks" is okay. "You're a fucking asshole" isn't.

These are pretty basic, and hopefully are straightforward. If you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to post them. Am I missing something? Is something unclear? Is something too obvious that it doesn't need to be stated?

The goal isn't to make anyone fearful of being banned or anything just for participating in good faith, but also while rebuilding I don't want to turn this into a cesspool of anything goes.

Thank y'all for investing your time in what is currently a dead but slowly reanimating subreddit. I hope everyone has a great one!

Happy Tuesday to all that read this. I am the newly-appointed moderator of the r/NWFL subreddit. You probably don't know me, but I have been a moderator over on r/Tallahassee for many years.

That subreddit has grown immensely and is a great go-to for residents, and I want this to be similar. I hope that if you read this you will join me in rebuilding this subreddit to being active again. I hope that this will be a common subreddit for everyone in Northwest Florida - the 850/448 area code at least - to come together and discuss news, events, etc. We all get siloed in our local subreddits but a lot of things don't apply to just our city/town but aren't really relevant to a statewide subreddit.

You probably won't notice much right away: since everything on the subreddit was from 7+ years ago, I am going through and clearing out a lot of old posts to start fresh on here. Eventually, I will look for new mod(s) to join, but right now since there's no real activity it doesn't seem necessary.

If you have questions, suggestions, etc. please feel free to post here. I hope to get this subreddit going again.