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r/collapse PUBLIC
Discussion regarding the potential collapse of global civilization, defined as a significant decrease in human population and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time. We seek to deepen our understanding of collapse while providing mutual support, not to document every detail of our demise.
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r/collapse is a PUBLIC community on Reddit with over 561,031 members. It currently has a negative sentiment with an engagement rate of 0.6%. With a community friendliness score of 30, this subreddit presents a moderate conversion potential for authentic brand participation. Strict rules against self-promotion are in place, so marketing should focus strictly on value-driven community engagement.
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Subreddit Rules
- Be respectful to others.: In addition to enforcing [Reddit's content policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy), we will also remove comments and content that is abusive or predatory in nature. You may attack each other's ideas, not each other.
- Advocating, encouraging, inciting, glorifying, calling for violence is against Reddit's site-wide content policy and is not allowed in r/collapse.
- No spam.: Posts and comments which appear to be marketing, self-promotion, surveys, astroturfing, or other forms of spam will be removed.
- Self-promotion or surveys of value to the community may be allowed on a case-by-case basis, if the moderation team is informed first via mod mail. We encourage self-promoters to engage in the comment section of their posts.
- Posts must be on-topic, focusing on collapse.: Posts must be focused on collapse. If the subject matter of your post has less focus on collapse than it does on issues such as prepping, politics, etc, then it probably belongs in another subreddit.
- Posts must be specifically about collapse, not the resulting damage. By way of analogy, we want to talk about why there are so many car accidents, not look at photos of car wrecks.
- 3b. (01/2024-12/2024) Posts regarding the U.S. Election Cycle are only allowed on Tuesday's (0700 Tue - 1100 Wed UTC)
- Keep information quality high.: Information quality must be kept high. More detailed information regarding our approaches to specific claims can be found on the [Misinformation & False Claims page](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/wiki/claims).
- Content must be properly sourced.: Articles, charts, or data-driven posts must include a source either within the image or in a submission statement.
- Banned: Dailymail, Twitter/X
- Preferably submit in-depth content (eg papers, articles) over short-form content (eg Bluesky, Mastadon) to avoid 'sound bites' and low effort content. All contents' authors must be 'credible' (eg recognized credentials, industry respect/history, well known science communicator)
- Post titles must accurately represent their content.: Vague, heavily editorialized, misleading, clickbait, or inaccurate post titles are not allowed.
- When submitting a link post with content that is more than a year old, the year or the date of publication must be mentioned in the post title. For example, the headline of an article followed by "(January 2020)".
- If a source's original headline is vague, misleading, or clickbait, then it is still rule-breaking. In this case, the content should be submitted with an improved title.
- Post quality must be kept high, except on Fridays. (00:00 Friday – 08:00 Saturday UTC.): On-topic memes, jokes, short videos, image posts (excluding academic, scientific, or related content with a link to its reliable source), polls, low effort to consume posts, and other less substantial posts are only allowed on Fridays, and will be removed for the rest of the week.
- Less substantial posts must be flaired as either "Casual Friday", "Humor", or "Low Effort".
- Clickbait, misinformation, fear-mongering, and other low-quality content is not allowed at any time, not even on Fridays.
- No duplicate posts.: Links must not have already been posted within the past ninety days or will be automatically removed. Links to similar articles covering the same event, paper, or news item as a previous link will be subject to removal at moderator discretion. Similar links by independent sources may be posted, but should offer some new information, insight, or perspective.
- No common questions.: Posts asking common questions ([listed here](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/wiki/commonquestions)) will be removed unless the submitter indicates they have read the previous question thread in their post. Common questions are still relevant and important to ask, but we aim to build on existing perspectives and informed responses, not encourage redundant posts.
- Link posts must include a submission statement. Do not submit links as self posts.: SSs are post text or top-level comment on your post which clearly explain why the linked content is collapse-related. They should contain a summary or description of the content and must be at least 150 characters in length. They must be original and not overly composed of quoted text from the source. If not added within 30 min of posting it will be removed.
- Posts regarding a single link must be submitted as link posts. Commentary should be written in a submission statement, not as a self post.
- Submissions with [in-depth] in the title have stricter post length and quality guidelines.: Submissions with the bracketed text "[in-depth]" in the title have stricter post length and quality guidelines. Top-level comments (not replies to comments) made within these in-depth posts must be at least 150 characters or longer and are expected to be constructive, diplomatic, and thoughtful. Low quality or superficial comments will be subject to removal at moderator discretion.
- Local observations belong in the Weekly Observations thread.: Local observations regarding collapse should be submitted as comments in the current Weekly Observations thread. Local observations submitted as posts will be removed.
- The current Weekly Observations thread can normally be found as a sticky on the r/collapse front page.
- Do not post more than three times within any 24-hour period.: Do not post more than three times within any 24-hour period.
- No AI-Generated Content.: AI-generated content may not be posted to /r/collapse
- self-posts, no comments, no links to articles or blogs or anything else generated by AI or AI influencers/personas
- AI-generated images or videos or other media
- "here's what AI told me about [subject]", "I asked [AI] about [subject]" or the like. This includes content substantively authored by AI.
What is r/collapse?
r/collapse is a public Reddit community created in May 2008 with over 561,031 members. Discussion regarding the potential collapse of global civilization, defined as a significant decrease in human population and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time. We seek to deepen our understanding of collapse while providing mutual support, not to document every detail of our demise.
The community has a negative sentiment and an engagement rate of 0.6%. With a friendliness score of 30, it is considered very welcoming to new members.
Self-promotion is not allowed, so marketing efforts should focus on providing genuine value to the community.
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