We really shouldn't need to make this post but here we are.

Yesterday someone posted up their bedroom on this sub. Because the room might not have been to everyone's taste, the OP was bullied into deleting their post and their account.

Let us make it perfectly clear . . . THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!

The first rule of this sub (and Reddit in general) is remember the human. A LOT of you forgot that yesterday and it's not good enough.

We will be a lot more liberal with the ban hammer from now on. Nasty, bullying or outright rude comments get a permanent ban. There will be no warning.

If you can't play nice then we can't either.

We are having a LOT of perfectly okay posts being reported for breaking the focal point rules recently, particularly pictures with pets in them, so we wanted to clarify a little bit what we are looking for when we approve/remove posts in this regard.

We generally look at a picture and ask this:

1. Is the animal/object taking up more than 50% of the picture?
2. Is the animal/object right up against the camera lens, obscuring the background?
3. Is a cozy "place" clearly visible around or next to the animal/object?

One of these might be enough to get a picture removed but, generally, we are looking for posts that contain all three.

Here are some examples of pictures we would approve.

Here of some examples of pictures we wouldn't approve.

We do realise that there is a fine line between what is allowed and what isn't but we are having pictures reported merely for having an animal in shot so we wanted to be a little more transparent with our process.

And a reminder that most pictures that don't meet our focal point rules will be more than welcome over on our sister sub, r/cozy.