1. Rules AI-generated content is now officially added as against rule 5: All AI content be it images and videos are now "low quality". Users that only dabble in said content can now face a permanent ban DO NOT post history, science or similar academic content if you do not know how to cite sources (Rule 4): I see increased misinformation ending up here. No wikipedia is not a direct source and ripping things off of instagram and Tik Tok and refering me to these pages is even less so. If you do not know the source. Do not post it here. Also, understand what burden of proof is), before you ask me to search it for you. 2. Clarification Any flair request not sent through r/Africa modmail will be ignored: Stop sending request to my personal inbox or chat. It will be ignored Especially since I never or rarely read chat messages. And if you complain about having to reach out multiple times and none were through modmail publically, you wil be ridiculed. See: How to send a mod mail message Stop asking for a flair if you are not African: Your comment was rejected for a reason, you commented on an AFRICAN DICUSSION and you were told so by the automoderator, asking for a non-african flair won't change that. This includes Black Diaspora flairs. (Edit: and yes, I reserve the right to change any submission to an African Discussion if it becomes too unruly or due to being brigaded) 3. Rant This is an unapologetically African sub. African as in lived in Africa or direct diaspora. While I have no problem with non-africans in the black diaspora wanting to learn from the continent and their ancestry. There are limits between curiosity and fetishization. Stop trying so hard: non-africans acting like they are from the continent or blatantly speaking for us is incredibly cringe and will make you more enemies than friends. Even without a flair it is obvious to know who is who because some of you are seriously compensating. Especially when it is obvious that part of your pre-conceived notions are baked in Western or new-world indoctrination. Your skin color and DNA isn't a culture: The one-drop rule and similar perception is an American white supremacist invention and a Western concept. If you have to explain your ancestry in math equastons of 1/xth, I am sorry but I do not care. On a similar note, skin color does not make a people. We are all black. It makes no sense to label all of us as "your people". It comes of as ignorant and reductive. There are hundreds of ethnicity, at least. Do not project Western sensibility on other continents. Lastly, do not expect an African flair because you did a DNA test like seriously...). Do not even @ at me, this submission is flaired as an African Discussion. 4. Suggestion I was thinking of limiting questions and similar discussion and sending the rest to r/askanafrican. Because some of these questions are incerasingly in bad faith by new accounts or straight up ignorant takes.   submitted by   /u/osaru-yo [link]   [comments]