Logging in today, you'll probably notice alot of changes, and probably haven't noticed a number of others. I got a bit impatient and decided to implement most of the ideas in the idea election, as well as doing a bit of harmless restructuring ahead of time. The election was less about choosing what to implement, and more about choosing what not to implement. Interestingly enough, every idea ended up getting traction. I had time to work on the subreddit, so I got to work on some changes. If you've got an idea for the subreddit, it's not too late! There's still two days including today until the election is over.

The first thing you guys probably noticed is that I condensed the sidebar; I moved some text to the submission page, and condensed the rules there.

As promised, the rules page is now being used and will give you guys some more options when reporting. The rules have much more room to be expanded, and this allows for comfortable extension of rule descriptions into the wiki. Speaking of the wiki, some people should expect an invite to our extended staff.

Additionally, I removed the "created by" bar, "create a new subreddit" button, and the Snoo blurbs from the sidebar. I think it looks pretty sharp. How about you guys?

If you tried posting a submission within the past couple hours, you probably noticed talk of "No Salt" mode and "Strict Safe For Work" mode in the submission text. You can use [☮] or [NS] to prompt an automoderator post that will say no salt is allowed, and [∀] or [SSFW] to prompt an automoderator post that will say to keep things PG-13. I'll be getting it working with author comments in the future, but for now you guys will need to include it in your initial post(UPDATE: The author just needs to edit the thread with one of the flags and automod will switch the mode). Automoderator is sensitive to it in the title and body, and you can edit the flags out when automoderator does its stuff. This is only scratching the surface of Automoderator's functionality, so expect more in the future.

The rule against repeated civil disruptions can be found in detail here. It's in a 'beta' stage right now and is subject to change depending on how volatile it is.

/u/actuallynotazoophile's suggestion to rename the tab title to "Animal Aficionados" has been put into effect. If you like it, be sure to thank them for it. :P

I jury rigged some flairs and will be implementing some automoderator commands for moderators so we can use custom link flairs, to make removals and warnings more transparent on threads(EDIT: DONE!). The number of tags is currently limited. We don't want too many flairs, but if you have a very important topic type, be sure to pass it on to us.

I did all of this by myself with no input from /u/btwIAMAzoophile, so there may be some changes to these things in the near future.

EDIT: I also added some illustrations for the other colors, so everyone can enjoy my terrible doodles. The green flair is meant to be reptiles, turquoise is a fish, pink is pigs, gray is humans, orange was supposed to be birds but it looks like an arrow, and purple is supposed to be cats. half of them are trash, but it's the best I could do at the time. If you want to submit a better copy of one of these, submit it as a 14x14 image with an alpha channel.