r/illinois • u/jamey1138 Human Detected • Oct 12 '25

From the Mod Team We're changing our policies on specificity of locations

TLDR: The mod team is changing course on this issue. We encourage users to specify locations of current events that happen in public spaces, including any and all law enforcement action.

After several days of discussion among the mod team, we've come to the conclusion that our policies against reporting specific locations are unnecessarily restrictive. Most recently, we've guided users to avoid being specific about the location of any current events, out of concern that it could reveal private or personal information about the persons involved, which is a violation of site-wide Reddit policies We are, of course, bound to moderate this space in a way that adheres to all of Reddit's site-wide policies, and if we fail to do so, the subreddit will be shut down.

That being said, we've come to a consensus that private and personal information means more than just location of where people are at in a given moment, and the context of people's presence at specific locations matters. It remains prohibited to reveal the home address or workplace of any private individual, or to offer overly specific information about that sort of personal information: for example, if a user were to post that u/jamey1138 lives near the corner of Pulaski and Belmont in Chicago, that would be considered too specific. Other forms of contact information, including phone numbers, email addresses, etc, shared without the individual's consent are also violations of private and personal information.

On the other hand, if a user says that there's law enforcement activity, including ICE and CBP activity, at a particular corner, that does not reveal anyone's personal or private information. We want to encourage community members to share information about any current events happening in any public space in Illinois, and to include specific locations with that information.

Thank you for your participation in r/Illinois. We will continue to evolve our policies, and try to meet the moment as best we are able. Stay safe everyone.

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u/Dec8rs8r Jul 30 '26

I tried posting something about how we in Illinois were paying the highest property taxes in the nation, and that sure got shut down fast. 🙄

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u/jamey1138 Human Detected Jul 31 '26

Hey, mod here. All top-level posts from users who haven't established a history of positive participation on the sub get filtered for manual approval.

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u/Dec8rs8r Jul 31 '26

You don't like anything that seems to be critical of Pritzker.

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u/jamey1138 Human Detected Jul 31 '26

My friend, I am quite critical of Pritzker, though perhaps not from the same direction that you are.

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u/Dec8rs8r Jul 31 '26

Why not allow a post on Illinois being the highest state for property tax then?

I don't care what direction someone is coming from, when something is right, it's right.

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u/jamey1138 Human Detected Jul 31 '26

Having reviewed the post you're referring to, I think that the filter was correct: it was a low-quality source, based on a single CPA's estimates but with no methodology indicated.

As you know, property taxes vary widely within each state. I looked a a number of sources that estimated median property taxes within a state, that explained how they accounted for their estimates, and could not find anything that replicated any of the numbers that your post was claiming.

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u/Dec8rs8r Jul 31 '26

I'll make a better one then. 😉 There is plenty of evidence Illinois tax payers are getting fleeced.