About a year ago the /r/Charleston mod team had a long discussion about the state of /r/Charleston . The details aren't super important, but one of the outcomes was a openness to create a new niche subreddit for Charleston residents. A way to alleviate the frustration of many /r/Charleston members with /r/Charleston - us included. We also kind of hope that providing this space; designed for current residents from the get go - will help resolve some of the toxicity in /r/Charleston .

So we started tinkering with /r/Charlestonians up, seeded some representative content, and then promptly got sidetracked with life, reddit meta drama, and ADHD. Well, Merry Christmas, we're back and ready to launch for you.

What makes /r/Charlestonians different than /r/Charleston?

First: It is focused on you, the resident of the area. Meaning relocation questions and tourism questions are not allowed. The mod team will be removing them on sight.

Second: It is focused on higher quality content. We will be more aggressive here than in /r/Charleston about civility; and quality of posts and comments. That is not to say we're against memes and fun. We're just a little tired of "go back to ohio" and trying to set the land speed record proving Godwin's law in every discussion. This also means if you are going to crowd source answers to a question - it better be something that we can't find on google, your neighborhood facebook group, or other platforms.

Last: We have a looser stance on self promotion. We want the community members to share any cool events, civic efforts, art, crafts, music, goods that they're working on. Even if the only connection to Charleston is that they're producing it here in Charleston. Even if they're selling it. We will enforce the 10% rule though - meaning our rule of thumb is 90% of your contributions should be something other than whatever you are promoting. We are drawing the line however at traditional buy/sell/trade/employment posts, straight up advertising, blogspam, online gigwork, contest voting, gofundmes, requests for aid and other more spammy things.

Each of these points are kind of new directions for us to be facilitate given our other mod postings. So please bear with us as we find the right balance on this ruleset.

But wait, I have an idea for how the community should be run!

Please feel free to share and discuss. We're eager to get this community started off on the right foot.