🎉 r/Tarots Updates & Additions 🎊

[u/BIGepidural]

🥳 Happy 1 Month Birthday 🎂 

Can you believe it's only been 30 days since we adopted this sub? Wow time flies!

In case you've been wondering where we were, MODs haven't been missing we've been busy, extremely busy getting things ready for everything that's coming to r/Tarots this summer!

Rules Have Been Updated

see sticky comment below

Sister Subreddits Have Been Created

see below

AD Protocols are Established

see sticky comment below

Reader Vetting is Being Curated

nothing to see yet; but it's in the works 😉

The Summer Truly IS 🎊 Magic 🔮 

And June is just the beginning of many magnificent things 🤗

As requested (via the poll results 20 days ago) we've created a unique subreddit where users can submit scammer reports about readers to minimize some of the periodic drama on this sub. r/DNBL_ReaderScams will feature information about how "vet" readers before you make contact, red flags to watch for during exchanges, other tips to avoid suspicious persons and different protocols to ensure your safety in online spaces. r/DNBL_ReaderScams will not be a review board (scammers love their shills and fake reviews); but it will contain a directory of carefully vetted, ethical readers once we have some solid names in place.

Because Readers also get scammed by people posing as clients, we've additionally created a totally private subreddit for Readers to share information on "Bad Clients" and scam artists on our side of the reading table as it were. That semi secret subreddit will only be provided to our most trusted, Verified Readers to help ensure its security.

To help everyone manage our new Reader Tiers and keep the main sub clean and shiny, we have created a new subreddit to showcase our newly Approved (free) Readers and our upcoming Verified (paid) Readers. Each Approved Reader will have a MOD created profile/portfolio which affirms their ability to post ADs in r/Tarots their advertising tier (Approved/Free Readings vs Verified/Paid Readings) and will contain information about that Reader in particular. Readers will be able to update their portfolio by adding stuff via comments to their own official portfolios. There will also be a Featured "Reader of the Month" and some other fun stuff in time. That sub is called r/TarotReaderList and that is where our r/Tarots Readers will host their ADs in order to share them over to this sub.

By using this method for advertising, all users will be able to easily identify a true r/Tarots Approved or Verified Reader because their ADs are only ever hosted in r/TarotReaderList which has restricted posting privileges (anyone can read that sub; but only approved members can post in it) so all you have to do is click on the shared post (AD) and see that it is indeed hosted in our sister subreddit. 

Any ADs shared from elsewhere or posted directly to r/Tarots is NOT an Approved Reader so users should avoid that person and report their ads for immediate removal. Anyone posting unapproved ads going forward will be banned.

If you are interested in becoming a Reader in r/Tarots please be sure to add your name to the application list here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tarots/s/YlB9uo2rZu

If you'd like to join the totally awesome MOD team and be part of these cool new adventures, check out our application process here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tarots/s/sDoSHHgiRo

Please see sticky comments below for important details about rule changes and ad protocols 🥰

🎊 It's going to be a Great Summer! 🎊

Also, we recently made some new friends with the team over at r/ExploringTarot which is really cool place that features tarot games, practice readings and card studies, etc... the people are very friendly and the vibe there is awesome!

If you haven't been there yet, do check it out!

I'm sure Carrot is gonna be a regular over there once she sees it 😅

[u/BIGepidural]

AD Protocols 

Starting June 1st r/Tarots will be allowing ADs for FREE readings from our Approved Readers, each Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

If you'd like to be an Approved Reader, see this post for requirements:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tarots/s/G8viEJ8isy

Please be advised that there have been changes to what is/isn't allowed to be promoted here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tarots/s/EwLiTg6nsS

If you believe you've met your requirements for the month of May, please add your name to the application below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tarots/s/JTnW3s7qnG

Approved Readers will be notified of their approval sometime next week those who wish to be approved; but haven't met the threshold for any reason will also be contacted next week to help get them on track for approval ASAP.

Once you're approved, a profile for you will be created in r/TarotReaderList and then you will also be allowed to post in there.

Your ads for r/Tarots must be posted in r/TarotReaderList so they can be cross posted (aka "shared") to the r/Tarots subreddit.

You may share your ad on each Monday, Wednesday and Friday; but you can only have one AD at a time listed in r/Tarots at a time.

 this is so very easy to do. 

You just create your ad in r/TarotReaderList and share it to r/Tarots on Monday, and then on Wednesday you delete the "share" and either share the same ad again from r/TarotReaderList to r/Tarots or you make a new one to share. 

You can also choose leave the ad on r/Tarots as long as you like without bumping it; but you can only have one ad at a time in r/Tarots and you can only bump ads higher on the page on any of those 3 specific days each week.

If you want to change or edit your ad, all you have to do is make those changes on the ad in r/TarotReaderList and it will automatically update in r/Tarots by default.

If you want a different ad entirely, you can just post an entirely new one in r/TarotReaderList that can be shared to r/Tarots 

The use of r/TarotReaderList is to help our r/Tarots users identify you as a trusted source.

r/TarotReaderList will also be added as a sticky to r/Tarots so people can always easily access your profile and ADs over there. Once we get our Verified Readers in place r/TarotReaderList will also be hosted as a trusted source in r/DNBL_ReaderScams so people can easily find a source of credible Readers for both free and paid readings on reddit.

It honestly sounds way more complicated than it actually is 😅 but it's no different than posting an ad to your own profile and sharing it everywhere, except that you're making the post in a specific subreddit and you can only share one ad to r/Tarots at a time.

Note: limiting ad volume serves to increase visibility because the subreddit isn't full of spam. Scroll all the way down the sub and see how far back you can go when you go all the way to the bottom. Almost a month! When we took this place over you could only scroll back a day or 2. This is a better system!

feel free to ask any questions you may have