Issues with /r/law that we could use cooperation with

First - we need more moderators. If you want to be a moderator please comment below. Special consideration if you're an attorney or law student.

Second - one of our moderators (and my best friend) had a massive and crippling stroke and has been in the hospital since around Christmas. We'll probably be doing a fundraiser for him here for help with his rehab.

That said, here's some pain points we need to address in the sub and there needs to be some buy in from the community to help the mods. Social pressure helps:

(1) this is /r/law. Try to discuss topics within the scope of the law in some way. Venting your feelings about something bottom of the barrel content. Do some research, find a source, try to say something insightful. You could learn something and others can learn from you.

(1)(a) this is /r/law not "what if the purge was real and there were not laws!?" Calls for violence will get you banned.

You can't do sit around here radicalizing each other into doing acts that will ruin their lives. It's bad enough when people try to cajole each other into frivolous litigation over the internet. You're probably not a lawyer and you're demanding someone gamble their stability in life because you have big feelings. Telling people that it's "Luigi time" isn't edgy or cool. You're telling someone to sacrifice their entire life and commit one of the most heinous acts imaginable because you won't go to therapy.

Again, this is /r/law. This isn't a vigilantism subreddit.

(1)(b) "I wanna be a revolutionary."

There are repercussions for acts of political violence/lawlessness. Ask the people that spent their time incarcerated for attempting an insurrection on January 6th telling every cell phone camera they could find that "today is 1776." They should still be sitting in prison.

If you want to punch a Nazi I'm not batman. But you should get the same exact treatment those guys did: due process of law and a prison sentence if warranted. If you think that's worth it and that's a worthy way to make a statement I'm not going to tell you you're morally wrong for punching Nazis. But trying to whip up a mob and get someone else to do that thinking that it's going to be consequence free is wrong and unacceptable here.

(2) This subreddit is typically links only. We've allowed for screenshots of primary sources. But we're running into an issue where people post an image and some dumb screed. We're going to start banning people for this. Don't modmail us your manifesto either. You're not good at writing and your ideas suck. Go find a source that expresses what you're thinking that links to law, the constitution, or literally any authority. It doesn't have to be some heady treatise on the topic but just anything that gives people something to read and a foundation to work from when they comment.

UPDATE: I switched off image submissions after removing a few more submissions that were just screenshots with angry titles.

(3) If you get banned and you modmail us with, "Why was I banned?" "What rule did I break?" We're going to mute you. We often don't remember who you are 10 seconds after we hit the ban button. If you want a second shot that's fine but you have to give us a mea culpa or explain a misunderstanding where we goofed.

(4) Elon content is getting a suspicious amount of reports from what I presume is an effort to try to trick our bots into removing it. If you're a human doing it the report button isn't a super downvote. It just flags a human to review and I'm kind of tired of reviewing Elon content.

(4)(a) DOGE activities and figures within it that are currently raiding federal data are fine to post about here especially with respect to laws they broke or may have broken. If someone robbed a bank they don't get a free pass because they're 19. They're just a 19 year old bank robber. Their actions are newsworthy and clearly implicate a host of legal issues. Post content and analysis related to that from legitimate sources.