Since we have now reached Retard Critical Mass (RCM) and the bulk of the newfags seem to be congregating here and in /h/pets, I'd like to take a few minutes to reiterate what this category is and is not for. Mostly the latter, but we'll cover both.

What /h/Selfharm IS NOT For:

• Still images of your gay little cat scratches

• Still images of you hitting beans

• Low effort videos of you scratching styro

• DISCUSSION TOPICS - WPD IS NOT HERE TO GIVE YOU ADVICE ON CUTTING YOURSELF. How do you even need advice on this anyway? Sharp edge+flesh+pressure. It's literally that simple. That's all it takes. Cavemen were doing it to others with rocks many thousands of years ago, surely you can sort it out on your own with modern technology.

• THERAPY - WPD IS NOT YOUR THERAPIST. While you almost certainly have people in real life who care about you and want to help you, WPD is both 1) not real life and 2) not here to serve as your confidant or friend. This is not a therapeutic website. This is not for whining about trauma or addiction or whatever. Do that shit in /h/social if you must. People are here, inexplicably, to see blood and guts. Not read your bitching.

• Encouraging self-harm. If someone becomes seriously injured or dead because of your encouragement, guess who's on the hook legally for that shit? Yeah, that's you. Not WPD. Don't do it. We have zero tolerance for this and it's for your own protection.

What /h/Selfharm IS For:

• Videos of people inflicting nonlethal harm upon themselves. This can be bladed, it can be fire, it can be bruising, it can be whatever.

• Especially gnarly pictures of the above, I suppose.

I hope this clears things up. Please stop posting your stupid irrelevant shit here. We have literally 3 jannies, they can't keep up with this avalanche of nonsense.

Hi everyone!

We have noticed a big influx of self-harmers here who upload photos of their own cuts. If you are one of those people, welcome! Now, let's get straight to the point of this post. We have observed that there has been an increase in romanticizing self-harm, which is something that we are not keen on.

The /h/selfharm flair rarely had OC (original content, the uploader is the one who did the cutting), but there has been a big increase recently. The flair has shifted from "watch someone cut" to "watch my cute cut". Therefore, we want to implement the following rule:

• Comments and posts that encourage/romanticize self-harm will be removed.

We don't want people to rile each other up by commenting on how pretty a cut is. We don't want people to upload their "cute cuts :3". Romanticizing self-harm is not allowed. By enforcing this rule, we hope to reduce these kinds of interactions with all posts.

We hope you understand. If anyone needs help with stopping self-harm or is interested in alternate coping methods that are not as damaging to the body, please let me know :) (been there, done that).

Thank you for your time !

(Posting this in /h/selfharm for more visibility)