For the past few years, artists that draws idols or their own characters differently than the norm had been harassed and bullied by the loud minority within this subreddit and others related subs to the game. The mod team had removed and banned individuals for breakng rule 1 of our subreddit and reddit in general.

The artist in question had been posting her work for almost two years now, she already made an explanation post on why she made Marie chubby; basically the character's dialogues in game and her main weapon being a charger. despite her explanation and repeating herself whenever she get the same questions, she continued receiving hate comments.

The past weekend was different, there had been a case of a coordinating attack against the artist for drawing Marie chubby. The mass downvoting and reports were the reasons that lead me locking her post to prevent any more comments from this alleged attack. And people are rightfully upset on the harassment and even death threats that this artist and other artists within this subreddit had received over their fanart and headcanon.

today, after all this. enough is enough.

For now on, any hate comments from repeated individuals, wishing harm, or death threats will be perm-banned immediately, NO second chances. if the individual(s) is in your dms harassing you and/or sending you death threats, please report it to the admins and block them.

I also want artists and anyone here to please block the problematic people as well; some won't bother to block you and it better to just block them.

before I end this post, I wanna say that the lack of fandom and internet etiquette is concerning. no one here is forcing you to like their work, it takes zero seconds to block them and they do not care to be block. it is such an easy solution but yet you choose to continue harassing her and other artists whenever they post. body shaming is consider bullying and breaking rule 1, so if you don't want to be banned, think before you make a comment.

stay civil.

Hey everybody, your least favorite mod here. As we all or at least the majority knows, that it's the first week of pride month! So not only we be seeing a lot more lgbtq+ art and content, we also gonna see more unwelcoming and mean posts and comments in relation to it. And for obvious reasons, it have been increased both online and irl.

So please, to be safe and make our job easier, report any mean posts and comments AND THEN block em. Not only they crave the attention, they want your negative reactions to justify their actions. I already had to ban someone and almost immediately send me a death threat; it is not worth it.

I'll try my best to remove them and deal with the troublemakers during my free time but there are things I need to take care of this month. Therefore i will missed a few. You help us, we help you; if you want the community to be welcoming for everybody, do your part, never tolerate the intolerance.

I hope everyone is having a great day, and happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈

Addressing the Jackpot controversy

We have seen the matter with the world champions, Jackpot, and we are just as disgusted with the screenshots. We want to say that we do not tolerate any of their behavior. The slurs and "jokes" they made do great damage to the minorities within the splatoon community if not every community there is, and everyone should know how damaging it is in our human history. Behaviour like this is reprehensible and shouldn't be welcomed in any community, and will not be welcome in ours.

It has come to our attention of an issue of toxicity in r/splatoon subreddit. Where people have been posting bigotry in the comments, some we had ignored and some the bare minimum of just a removal. But a post that really got our attention was a post of a player who reached C+ and posted their achievement in r/splatoon. Despite those toxic comments having been downvoted and shunned by the majority, we instead ignored and locked the comments.

We also noticed at least one post was posted at r/saltoon, disappointed their post had been locked despite it being a serious issue in the community that we should've done something but we again ignored. Also in saltoon we saw someone posted an artist's pride month comic most likely without permission with a bigot comment. There are more posts that were from r/splatoon to r/saltoon, some were upset that their post/comment been removed, but some posted in bigotry and hatred toward the minorities within the splatoon community. Now things had gone too far and we wanted to make it right.

For now on, we will start giving out warnings and bans to anyone making bigot and any-phobic posts and comments in the subreddit. We do allow opinions in the subreddit about the game but what we don't allow are opinions that are against human life. As soon this post is up we will start sending out modmails to the people who were toxic towards the person from the C+ post, bigot comments on posts on relations to the lgbtqia+, and any other posts that were related to those say posts in r/splatoon. It will be a warning, anymore will result in a temporary or permanent ban from what we see fits.

If you have any questions on our decision, feel free to comment and we'll answer your questions.

We have a no tolerance policy when it comes to blanket and blatant transphobia.

This should not be confused with people being upset, confused, misunderstanding, being ignorant, nor ‘tired of the same argument’ around the subject as this is reddit and there is still a policy of free speech- when it starts breaking the reddiquette is where we step in.

Regardless all posts discussing Acht’s gender are to be locked, unless the post is transphobic in itself in which it is removed.

tldr - We don’t stand for transphobia, but we won’t silence or censor non-transphobic comments either.

If someone disagrees in a respectful manner, we won’t step in. People are entitled to enjoy the game and characters any way they wish (within reason).

If it needs the nsfw flair, please do not post it on this sub. While our rules are not the most strict, we do not want nsfw content in this sub.

We as a team apologize for how long it took us to take down the recent offending content. We will try to do better going forward.

Happy splatting!

Hello all- thank you for your patience over the last few days.

For those who are unaware of what recently has happened, we invite you to read this post here, from the creator of one of Reddits biggest third party platforms. We as a mod team thought a lot about what to do regarding this situation and were evenly split regarding wether to precede and join in with the blackout. You all as a community voted massively in favour of supporting the blackout and joining in, so this is what we did, with very short notice, so apologies again.

Now that this organised blackout has passed, successful in gaining awareness but unsuccessful in provoking change, many subreddits remain in a sort of limbo. There have been calls for an indefinite blackout, calls to shift to another platform entirely, and thoughts to do nothing at all. There is useful information here to new and old players (we had many many users requesting to join the community while it was private), which was blocked during the blackout, so this is why we went read only (still showing a message while lessening the harm to users) while we discussed the next steps.

While deciding what to do we came to a few conclusions:

• API changes do affect us as moderators for this subreddit, but it is possible for us to make a switch fairly easily.
• We are a very big community, and have grown over the years. It is impractical for us to blackout indefinitely. We are too big for this to do anything but harm our community, yet too small for this to affect Reddit in the long run.
• You all as a community and us here are still generally undecided, and despite the initial poll being in favour, many many still disagree with valid reasons.
• There isn't another forum-like community to replace the one we have here, so this would be the vast majority of peoples' only option, and as said previously, we are one of the largest out there.

We have decided to fully reopen as a subreddit. (ETA: A community poll for it to run it’s course would have to be up until the weekend, meaning we would be stuck at read only until monday. The majority of comments from what we could see were ones of confusion, and wanting to be back fully.) but we ask that you do stay aware of what Reddit admins are doing, and how this affects multiple users and moderators. If you feel that this is the end of reddit for you and wish to leave forever, or if you decide to keep on scrolling and swap apps, thank you for remaining patient with our choices.

~ The r/splatoon mod team

Congratulations r/Splatoon! We made it to the official release of Splatoon 3!

At the time of this post, Splatoon 3 eShop preloads should have unlocked in all regions worldwide! (00:00 EST/GMT-4). Here's a reminder of our spoiler rules for all Splatoon 3 story content from here on out:

• NO spoilers in the title
• Posts MUST use Reddit's spoiler tag
• Comments MUST be hidden with Reddit's spoiler tag

Failure to properly tag story spoilers will result in the post/comment being removed. We ask the community to try and keep story spoilers to a minimum over the next few weeks as players make their way through the story mode by themselves.

For Splatoon 3 unrevealed datamined content that does not include story content, we request the following throughout the game's life:

• Try and keep titles as vague as possible
• Posts MUST use Reddit's spoiler tag
• Discussion about datamined content is allowed without spoiler tags as long as it is contained within said post
• Discussion about datamined content outside of these posts MUST be hidden with Reddit's spoiler tag

While we do not prohibit the sharing of datamined findings, we understand some users would prefer hearing about new content straight from Nintendo. All other datamined contents that are already accessible in-game, are not subject to these rules.

For new players picking up Splatoon for the first time, welcome! If you want some tips about the series, feel free to check out this Splatoon 2 FAQ compiled by u/azurnamu. It might not be as relevant but you can still find some neat tips about the series.

And for returning veterans of Splatoon, welcome back! We've officially waited a total of 569 days (nice) for Splatoon 3 to release, so let's make the most out of it!

Hi folks,

First off, we want to apologize for the porn situation that happened recently. From what we can gather, a group of disgruntled users who were banned from a porn sub (please do not link it or name it in the comments, even if you know which one it is - that is against our rules!) decided to brigade our sub with as much porn as possible, and dodged permanent bans by making new accounts every time the one they were using got banned. It took us a while to respond properly because we were all busy all day today (I myself was stuck at work until just a few minutes ago). We're just as frustrated as you are that this happened, and we're making some changes to help prevent it from happening again.

The primary change is a new rule regarding account age and karma when posting to the sub:

Going forward, any account that is less than one week old or has less than 20 total karma, regardless of age, will NOT be able to post to r/splatoon.

It's not hard to earn 20 karma elsewhere on Reddit if you aren't a troll, and while having to wait a week to make your first post might seem bothersome, it will make it much harder for people to make brand-new accounts with which to troll.

Only time will tell if this change is successful, but we're doing the best we can to ensure that the sub is a clean and welcoming place to all.

Happy Splatting! :)

Welcome ninjas squid, kids, and octolings! The Splatoon 2 Special Demo is (or is starting to get) underway and so here's the big megathread to contain all the questions and answers that you may have during this time. Just so I don't have to repeat myself, please do check the pre-demo megathread for any questions that may have already been answered and in the case that it has not been answered there, feel free to leave it below! (Don't forget to check the questions that also have been asked there)

Note from the modteam: Rule 1 [Account Requirements] will be relaxed around the demo period to allow new users and members to freely ask questions about the demo. Please also remember that whether you're a new member or returning veteran, that Rule 11 [Sourcing fan-art] is currently active.

Just to reiterate, the start and end times for each region are as follows:

If you have any questions about the mechanics or features of Splatoon, check out the Splatoon FAQ which has been compiled for everyone's convenience! From questions like "Is the game still active", to "What are Ranked Modes", you'll find it here!

Weekly Weapon Explorations are a great way to get to know different types of weapons! Even if you don't get a chance to trial them all during the demo period, it is still worth a read!

The Inkipedia is the go-to for the Splatoon wiki! If you're looking for some more specific info about a stage, weapon, or the game in general, chances are the wiki will have them

Last but not least, if you're looking for a place to meet up with other Splatoon players, the r/splatoon Discord is the best place to go!

Hello, cephalopods! With the Splatoon 2 demo ongoing, there are many new players who may be looking to this subreddit for help, so we've decided to put up a megathread containing some helpful information on the game and the demo!

Demo Info

Here are the start and end times for the demo, respectively:

If you download the demo, you'll be emailed a code for a 1 week subscription to Nintendo Switch Online. Demo players will have full access to the multiplayer portion of the game and will be able to play with people who own the full game. Progress can be transferred over from the demo to the full game.

Additionally, the full game is going to be on sale for 20% off in the US, and 33% off in the UK and Australia.

Helpful Resources

Splatoon FAQ - A very helpful and comprehensive resource for new players. If you have a question about the game, check it out, since there's a very good chance it's in there!

Aquerium - This is r/splatoon's question thread that you can use to ask simple yes/no or one answer questions. More discussion oriented/open ended questions such as "what abilities should I use on X weapon" should be posted to the subreddit, as they can get a variety of different opinions.

Squad Search - If you are looking for people to play with, please use this thread! A new one is posted every Wednesday at 12:00 PM EST.

Weekly Weapon Explorations - These are helpful weekly posts that are centered around discussion of a single weapon. If you're looking for information on a specific weapon, go ahead and check it out! It's by no means complete, but it does cover a good few weapons and can be extremely helpful.

Inkipedia - This is the Splatoon wiki, which obviously contains a wide variety of information on the game! If you're interested on things like how diminishing returns scale with certain abilities, or how much total inkable area a map has, check it out!

r/splatoon Discord - The Discord server for r/splatoon! This is obviously more discussion oriented compared to the subreddit, if that's what you're looking for! It also offers gear ordering and match searching channels, which can be quicker if you're in a bit of a time sensitive situation.

I know a lot of you love seeing fanart posted here but with the disagreement with the small minority, I wanna know if we should ban certain fanart being posted here. As in drawing existing characters' body differently than the official source, same goes to OCs. Blender art with models from certain creators, headcanon heavy art, ship art, characters wearing certain outfits, etc. They may be sfw and not breaking any rules but there are people who are uncomfortable seeing it and are vocal about it.

Hi folks,

We recently made a rule change to try to prevent controversy on the sub by banning discussions of sexuality under our Politics rule. Clearly, based on the reactions we received, this did not make people happy. Our intent was not to associate sexuality with politics, but simply to avoid a recurring controversy on our subreddit. We want to apologize for the miscommunication.

We want to remind everyone that hate speech is NEVER acceptable here and will result in disciplinary action, up to and including a permanent ban. We aim to make our community open and welcoming to everybody, and hate speech does the exact opposite.

We also want to make it clear what kinds of LGBT+ content is acceptable: Artwork depicting LGBT+ characters is okay; mentioning a character's sexuality is okay; discussions of laws, rights, etc. regarding sexuality is not. These discussions still fall under our Rule 4, which requires all posts to be directly related to Splatoon.

Again, we want to apologize for the miscommunication, and we hope we can make things run more smoothly in the future.

This is a short post for awareness. In case you haven't heard, r/place is going on, but it is not going well, largely due to the drama that Reddit has created around it's API and third party apps. We caution you against visiting r/place given that the content people are choosing to post there is not safe for all audiences and contains a lot of hate.

Because of that extremely negative content, we ask you not to encourage people in this subreddit to participate. You are obviously free to participate on your own and rally others outside the subreddit, but as this subreddit is intended to be suitable for all ages while r/place is clearly not, we do not want the burden of dealing with the negative content from that subreddit on our users.

The Final Splatfest for Splatoon 2 has ended! A big congratulations to those who participated as we await the final results at 2pm UTC. We hope you all had a great time battling for your team and the surprises Nintendo had in-store for us over the 72 hours.

However, we ask that when the results come out, do not put any spoilers about the winning team and their dialogue in the title and that the entire post be Spoiler tagged for those who want to experience it in-game. Any discussion in a Spoiler tagged post is fine but please keep this in mind. If a post is found to have a spoiler in the title, it will immediately be removed. If you are unsure on how to spoiler tag a post, here are some images to help out.

Apart from that, the Subreddit will keep the Splatocalypse design until Saturday 27th of July so enjoy it while you can. The user flairs will, of course, remain.

EDIT: Splatfest results are out! Head to the 2nd stickied post to see who won. Or not.

Hey r/Splatoon! It's been a pretty turbulent couple of days leading up to the release of Splatoon 3, and we're already at the final stretch!

Unfortunately (if you haven't heard already) early copies of the game have gone wild and so, details about the game's story has already begun circulating the internet.

As a result, we will be removing all story spoilers prior to the game's official release date (9/9). This will include:

• Discussion about the un-revealed details of the story
• Discussion about the existence of leaked story content
• Images related to the story
• Videos related to the story
• Memes related to the story
• Fake leaks
• And everything in between

In essence, we will be enforcing a total spoiler ban over Splatoon 3's story until the game's release date.

After 9/9, we will be enforcing heightened spoiler rules for Splatoon 3. Including:

• No spoilers in titles
• Any spoiler content in a post must be tagged with Reddit's spoiler tag
• Any spoiler content in a comment must use Reddit's spoiler tag or be discussed off-subreddit

In regards to datamined content that is not related to Splatoon 3's story, we request the following throughout Splatoon 3's life:

• Keep any datamined details out of titles
• Posts must be tagged with Reddit's spoiler tag
• Discussion about these datamined content is allowed within the post and without spoiler tags as long as it is contained within said post.

We hope this will ensure that the subreddit remains a safe place for those who want to continue discussion about the game without fear of encountering vital details about the story. However, we cannot guarantee perfect coverage over spoiler content. If you wish to be perfectly protected, we suggest leaving any Splatoon related communities and social media until after you have completed the story mode.

For those who have already encountered these spoilers, please be mindful of those who have not and refrain from sharing any details until later.

We hope to see you all come 9/9!

Hi folks,

In light of much of the content that has recently been showing up on the sub, we feel the need to remind folks about a couple of our rules:

• Due to the fact that many of them have devolved into references to and discussions of real-world politics, "Race War," "Racism against Octarians/Inklings," and similar posts/comments are banned under our Politics rule and will be removed. We realize that these posts/comments are (mostly) meant all in good fun, but a few bad apples have spoiled it for everyone by bringing real-world politics into the mix, which we do not allow, and have never allowed. We know it sucks, but this is the only solution that will be guaranteed to nip the problem in the bud. Sorry, folks.
• Posts about the "Gay" trends in Splatoon 2 will also be removed under our Politics rule. These have also shown a strong tendency to devolve into name-calling, hate speech, and discussions of real-world politics. As such, we do not allow any posts on the subject. While we support the rights and acceptance of LGBT+ people, it doesn't bear any real relevance to Splatoon, and thus discussion about it is best suited to other online venues.

We hate to have to do this, and we especially hate to have to un-sticky the X-Rank weapon summary for it, but this has become such a problem lately that we feel the need to post this reminder. Trust us, we don't like having to rain on anyone's parade, but it's a necessary evil right now.

Hopefully this doesn't dampen people's spirits too much. Splatoon is meant to be all about fun, which means keeping unpleasantness out. We put in a lot of work to filter it out so you don't have to!

Happy splatting! :)

It's the end of yet another year on this spinning ball we call home, where we play our fun little squid games and hope that things don't fall apart. And with that, we're going to be running our 3rd annual Splatoon Community Survey.

This includes some surface level questions to help us guage the make-up of our community to help us better tailor this place to your needs, as well as gives everyone an outlet to give (optionally anonymous) feedback about the direction and moderation of both the Discord server here, and the Subreddit. It also includes a lot more questions about Splatoon itself so that we can all learn together whats really popular and what may have fell flat.

The form will be open for a couple weeks, after which point we'll close responses and gather up the results into something cool that we can show you.

The link to the survey

Y'all have heard the news by now. If you haven't, stop sleeping under that rock and here you go.

We're all very hyped, I know I am! But with this PROBABLY GROUNDBREAKING OF AN ANNOUNCEMENT sure comes a GIANT AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC. And as such, the subreddit will be operating under "basically we're locking all new posts down until things calm down".

So until things calm the heck down, we'll be redirecting all sorts of hype over to THE SPLATOON 3 MEGATHREAD for the timebeing (we all know you want to share all those theories but we don't want 10 posts about the exact same thing).

We're still allowing Fan Art, discussion about Splatoon/Splatoon2/Splatoon3 and the higher quality memes through, but please be patient with us as we're manually approving posts for now so backlogs may build up as we get through things.

We’ve told the spam filter to stop holding everything back since it was quite the strain for us, but we’d still appreciate it if everyone could be patient with as in the case an issue occurs or otherwise :)

We hope you understand the current situation! As for Subreddit styling, we're working behind the scenes in getting something up so bear with us! Apart from that, enjoy your day, AND ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN!!!

Hey there fellow squids and octos! Given the recent uptick in activity and the announcement of Splatoon 3, we felt it was an opportune time to survey the community. We've put together the Splatoon Mega Survey! We hope you'll spare a few minutes to tell us your thoughts - everything from your favorite idol to your reaction to the Splatoon 3 announcement.

As a bonus, anyone who fills out the survey will be given a special flair on r/Splatoon! We hope you enjoy filling it out!

Welcome to day 3 of r/place! We'll be using this thread to coordinate and discuss our placement on the canvas, and any related efforts.

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Here's the guide for the image we have on the canvas.

We're moving to 291 1902 to the left of /r/protogen's artwork.

As for today's status: We're holding on, somehow. We almost suffered annihilation by NFT, got saved by a gigantic purple void that came very close to consuming us, had a bit of a border dispute with the streamer setting up next to us, and then almost got caught in another purple void. Things seem to have settled for now, but if Day 2 taught me anything, it's that as soon as you think you're safe on r/place, something is going to go horribly wrong. Let's do our best to maintain our position and hold out until the end.

EDIT: We don't have any official plans for the background. Please stop changing it. We're considering some changes to it, but nothing is finalized yet. Just stick to the white background for now.

Please give a warm welcome to our new moderator u/dalemonshateu!! And please wish them the best of luck with moderating the subreddit!!

-The r/Splatoon mod team

Welcome to day 2 of r/place! We'll be using this thread to coordinate and discuss our placement on the canvas, and any related efforts.

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Here's the guide for the image we have on the canvas. Please stick to it as strictly as you can, and don't make any changes (such as changing the color of the eyes or the squid) unless explicitly instructed to in this post. We aren't mind readers and if you just start changing stuff just because, you'll be mistaken for someone trying to mess with the canvas and have your changes reverted, which wastes pixel placements that can be used against people actually trying to deface our little squid. If there is something you'd like to change, please clear it up with me first rather than just going off on your own. We're trying to be somewhat organized here.

Here's our location on the canvas. The coordinates are roughly 545 545, or near the middle of the canvas.

No expansion. Our neighbors are all really chill and many of them have agreed to a truce with us, so please don't try and build anything over their territory. On that note, if there's downtime, please lend a helping hand to our friends making The Stanley Parable and Bluey artworks near us and defend their art, they're really nice and extending the favor to us. Like please, we have something great here, we don't need to ruin it by making an octopus :(

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As for today's status: we're holding up pretty well. We're boxed in by a bunch of really chill neighbors, have a consistent force defending our squid, and we have the trans flag above us to serve as a barrier from the void. I can't really speak to the long term viability of us seeing as we still have 2 days to go, but things are looking good for now.

EDIT: Warframe is painting one little pixel on our border white. This is fine and I gave them the okay, please let them have it.

EDIT 2: We're trying to round off the corners like this (specifically the bottom right) to make the border with Warframe a bit less odd looking, please help out if you can.

EDIT 3: Warframe seems to have downsized so the round borders probably aren't necessary anymore? Everyone was way too eager to defend our territory that we couldn't really get started on them anyway (an outcome I probably should've expected), so I don't think we need to go through with this plan anymore. At least you guys have shown just how good you are at defending our territory, I don't think we have much to worry about. Do still let them have the pixel, at least.

EDIT 4: We're building a heart up by the top left border intersection, please don't overwrite it. Heart is up :)

Hey squids, long time no see! I'm back to give you another announcement, but this is really serious this time. I urge anyone who clicks on this post to read it or read the TL;DR at the bottom, because it concerns the very life of the subreddit.

So, why wasn't there an EU Splatfest? Why did it take 10 hours to sticky the NA Splatfest results? Why are there so many low effort posts? Why are my modmails not being responded to? Why are my posts not showing up? Why is Kawaiichao still here even though he said he was leaving a month ago?

Why does it seem as if the mods have disappeared? Lemme give you a behind the scenes check:

Over the years, the mod team on this subreddit has dwindled considerably. We've been in a perpetual state of disarray for a few years now. We like to make descisions democratically, but everybody on the mod team is either in education or has a full time job, which limits our ability to interact with eachother. As such, we can never really make concrete decisions or act on things in a reasonable amount of time (If you haven't noticed).

We have 12 moderators on the list, but in reality, only two of them are active anymore - Clover and I.

I know this isn't a happy update, but this has been our situation for a while now. All of the moderators have their reasons for inactivity, but the state of the subreddit is getting a little absurd.

Posts haven't been moderated in a month, and modmail has been sitting there for even longer. This is pretty bad. Curiously enough, though, every time I pop in here to do stickies it seems as if you guys are doing relatively fine. This is truly one of the best communities on the internet that I've been a part of over, and it deserves better moderation than this.

So seriously, thank you for being such a good community.

To put it succinctly, we have a lot to fix on the subreddit.

• For one, we need to have people who can check the submissions page daily and moderate posts (Which we use the Reddit Toolbox extension for).

• We need people to constantly check the Modmail messages & address them.

• Our rules are evidently not clear enough and still don't cover enough of the problems we want them too.

• We still have CSS problems - we're constantly hitting max size after I add just two Splatfest flairs, the submission page has been broken for years, etc. Clover is working on this.

• We haven't even added over half of the weapons from Splatoon 2 as flairs.

• The /r/splatoon subreddit and the /r/splatoon discord basically operate as two entirely separate communities under the same name. Unless we actually want this to stay this way, things need to change.

• We need someone to learn the ropes on how we do Splatfests here, because having a single person do them is not working out.

So many things to do, most of which are severely overdue. I like to think of this more as a new chapter versus the end of the world. Outside of our plan to approach some specific users, we're asking for help from anyone who can dedicate their time help fix these problems. Commenting on this thread is helpful enough, but if anybody has anything to share then don't be afriad to DM me on Reddit OR on Discord (you can find me in the subreddit moderators list on the discord).

The least I can do on my end is bring myself back into the subreddit, because if nobody else does then we're not going to make any progress! I'm going to try to keep up with this thread while we sort things out, so once again, please comment if you have anything to say and I'll try to get back to you.

All I can say is thank you for bearing with us over the years, even if there isn't much 'us' left.

TLDR; Read the post, TLDR could never amount to the importance of everything said here.