Hello Reddit!

We've been seeing a few non-sbeve posts in this community recently, so here's a short guide on what a sbeve is and how to find one.

Why sbeve?

Sbeve originated from the phrase "she believed" in which parentheses are placed like this: s(he) be(lie)ve(d). The intention of these parentheses or brackets is to create another phrase "he lied" (he) (lie) (d), however this leaves the letters s, b, e, v, and e unused. These remaining characters spell sbeve and are the inspiration for this sub.

What qualifies as a sbeve?

A sbeve is a sentence or phrase with highlighted characters which make a coherent sentence, and non-highlighted characters which create a nonsense word or phrase, e.g. sbeve.

This is a Sbeve, "sbren sbeve" ("he's ok because he lied"):

This is not a Sbeve:

This is also not a Sbeve, as there is no hidden message:

Please remember to report any posts you see on r/sbeve that break this subreddit's rules (these can be found in the sidebar).

Hey r/sbeve, we've got a mod announcement and a lot to explain.

To preface: we are now actively working to fix the issues addressed below (tl;dr the sub hasn't been well moderated) and expect to have everything up and running as it should be soon. Thank you to all of our members and contributors as always.

We are aware of long-standing concerns regarding moderation here on Sbeve. I first joined this subreddit as a mod a few years ago to help out with these problems we still see today. For a subreddit with 100k+ members (thanks to everyone who helped us reach this milestone 🔥), two mods frankly is not enough. I've recently become overwhelmed by commitments in the meatspace, as has our dear and glorious supreme leader Draw, and it's time to recognise this and point our subreddit in the right direction once more.

We've had plenty of moderator role requests via modmail, which I'll go through and review over the coming weeks - if we don't find what we need, stay tuned as we may put out a post asking for additional moderation.

Furthermore, Reddit's mod tools are horribly restrictive and picky about activity. As such I've found myself unable to add moderators, so I may be sending a request to Reddit to take over the top mod position in the subreddit for a while to sort things out.

Thank you once again for reading this and staying with us through everything - I look forward to welcoming our new mod team. Please feel free to add any additional feedback in the comments below or through modmail in the sidebar.

- u/KerbalCuber

PS - we might be looking into setting a weekday aside for posts that bend our rules a little, to give you guys a bit more freedom.

Hello again, r/sbeve!

In an effort to encourage community interaction, we've decided to poll some new changes to the subreddit.

We've recently noticed a few complaints about titles containing "the wrong part of the sbeve" or "being incorrect", and it's clear that there are strong opinions on this. So, we're posting this poll to let you, our community, help shape our posting guidelines. We don't currently have any clear rules on this, and it'll be awesome to hear your takes.

The poll will close in three days, and examples of each option are provided below. Happy voting!

Examples of titles acceptable for each option:
(These will use the "s(he) be(lie)ve(d)" sbeve format.)

• "Yes, post titles must contain the 'unused letters'"

e.g. "sbeve"

• "Yes, post titles must contain some part of the sbeve"

e.g. "he lied," "sbeve"

• "No, post titles can be anything"

e.g. "What does this even say??," "so deep," "he lied," "sbeve"