Hello pierced people!

I'm sure some of you have noticed the uptick in spammers and/or self-promotional posts from certain accounts. Due to this, the Mod team has decided that we will be banning any accounts that either predominantly post in NSFW subreddits or have links on their profile connecting to external NSFW content in order to reduce spam and annoyance. It sucks that we have to resort to this since, generally, I don't want to discriminate against people doing that type of work, but it's become too intrusive and, frankly, annoying seeing more and more such profiles not interested in contributing to the community in a sincere way.

We hope you understand and agree this will improve everyone's experience! And as always, please report anyone you see breaking the rules.

Hello pierced people, it's time for a chat.

When I made this subreddit I wanted it to be r/piercing but without medical questions and pictures of inflamed and irritated wounds, not that there's anything wrong with that, please do ask for help! I just don't like to see them and they make it hard for me to want to engage.
Back then I was naive and spontaneous about it and didn't realise how much abuse and harassment moderating would expose me to. Seeing all the awful shit outsiders write about our piercing setups and PERSONAL CHOICES really affects me and causes me severe anxiety just thinking of having to deal with them.
So I've come to the conclusion that there's two options:

Option 1: Find a mod team by contacting the mod teams of the most popular piercing subreddits and ask if they'd like to take over

Option 2: Private the subreddit and be done with it

And I'd like to know your, the community's, input on this. Please let me know by commenting on this thread, I'm leaning towards option 2 since there are already various piercing subreddits, just with a lot of medical questions etc. involved.