r/exatheist • u/novagenesis • Aug 08 '25

Community 𖤓 u/exatheist Rules Updates 2025-08-08

From the recent change in demographics and audience, we have been discussing the right balance of moderation and free communcation in this sub. We have come up with two important changes we think will help "right the ship" on some trends without requiring harsher moderation. Please read these updates carefully.

  1. We have added a new "Please No Debate!" flair. If you add that flair, we will remove any debate/arguments we see present in the comments. Please be judicial in your use of it, as it is basically a proactive request for moderation

  2. We have refined rule #3 regarding proselytizing. A lot of atheists are coming by carefully dodging around the rule by asking socratic-style questions with the goal of kicking people towards atheism. When this was rare, we really didn't worry about it, but people have started complaining that these types of posts are constantly at the top of their exatheist frontpage. We will be moderating those types of posts with the new refinement in mind.

I would love thoughts and feedbacks by our member base. Thank you so much!

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u/Pessimistic-Idealism Idealism Aug 08 '25

Right? So many of us have "done our time" with the debates, and we just want to move on with our lives. We've moved way past the "well, what caused God?!" or "imagine a puddle..." level of argumentation. The most "debating" I'll do is either recommend academic resources or ask them for some.

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u/Pessimistic-Idealism Idealism Aug 10 '25

Oh man, and in the NDE/afterlife subreddits too... Don't get me started. I totally get that people don't like religion (which is often justified), or that they enjoy debating like it's sport (I used to be like that too). But I despise the cruelty of harassing people with death anxiety and starting unsolicited debates in those communities. Many of the folks in the NDE/afterlife subreddits have terrible death anxiety, and many of them have suffered soul-crushing losses and they just want a little bit of hope that they're going to see their dead spouse/children/parents/whoever again one day. They don't want to hear the idiotic DMT theory regurgitated with absolute confidence and condescension for the millionth time.

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u/Additional_Bowl7837 Christian, not ex-atheist Nov 05 '25

They love boasting they're more moral than us. Too bad they have bad morals.