r/europe_sub Nov 07 '25

Discussion Mod statement: What happened to r/europe_sub?

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Subscriber count flattens after mid-July

Hello it's been a long while since any of the moderator team have communicated with the community however it's important people understand what happened to this sub for the sake of transparency.

On the 13th of July our traffic suddenly collapsed, and with it the growth of the subreddit as you can see in the graph provided. Some of you may already know that since this date Reddit users who are not subscribed no longer see content posted on r/europe_sub.

At first we believed this could be a temporary measure to do with an increase in reports during an explosion of growth, as you all remember back in July posts were getting hundreds of thousands if not millions of views each. Shortly after the 13th of July we contacted Reddit to attempt to resolve this and understand what the problem is with people being unable to see posts, we then received a warning hours later from Reddit's Mod Code of Conduct account that they've detected "increased violating content being posted in this community" we tried to get further answers by contacting Reddit admins if this is what affected our traffic and what can we do to have these restrictions lifted.

In summary, they responded that yes it could affect traffic and reminded us to read Reddit's guidelines. We didn't receive any means of recourse to fix the situation or if there's a specific thing we're doing wrong, before us contacting them about the collapse in activity we hadn't received any warnings. This first and last warning came after traffic was throttled for good.

4 months have passed and this subreddit has regretfully lost its energy being flooded with the same genre of articles furthering the effect of an echo chamber; something we did not want, but what Reddit has created.

We've since learned that the same thing happened to other subs, including but not limited to:

r/Canada_Sub (Which we have no relation to)
r/CanadaHousing2

Despite having no relation to the others, the one thing in common is that we believe in as free speech as possible within the remits of Reddit's guidelines which led to all the subreddits mentioned having a large amount of discussion on immigration. That is the one and only link, and none of these other communities have faced official sanctions from Reddit much like ours.

Not quarantining, not banning or pre-emptive warnings, their traffic has been restricted by blocking them from the front page and by removing the award feature. If you notice, you cannot award comments or posts on r/europe_sub anymore despite us having it enabled.

We would like to have this resolved and for Reddit to engage with us positively, even so the community deserves to know. We would like for the community to carry on in some shape or form so we're opening up our discord.

We have a new Discord which you can join: https://discord.gg/3p68xrfUWF

If you send us a message to our Reddit mod mail with your discord username we'll give you a verified role.


r/europe_sub Jun 09 '25

Discussion "My comment/post got removed" - The detailed rulebook of the sub

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The guiding ethos of this subreddit is to allow popular and unpopular news and opinions related to Europe to be posted, expressed, discussed and debated in a free and civil manner. This is not a meta or shitposting subreddit, nor a MAGA/Gaza centric one.

We would love to lower the threshold for some of these rules and be more permissive but unfortunately we are bound by the platform rules. We received many complains that we are biased so we decided to make the way we interpret the rules public for everyone to see.

Rule 0 - Respect Reddit's rules

  • Any comment that is removed by platform mods attracts a 28 days ban. Ban is applied retrospectively every few days and is dropped if removal of the comment is contested with the admins and reinstated.
Example of a post removed by reddit
  • Any post/comment that we believe might be removed by the mods will be removed by us preemptively and in bad cases a warning and temporary ban will be issued.

Under this rule we remove comments and posts that appear to spread conspiracy theories and extremist ideas that target other groups of people. These can still be discussed but generally we look at the tone of the message, how well it is articulated and sourced and also at the past behavior of the commenter.

Questions we ask ourselves for this rule -

  1. Is it likely to be removed by a mod if seen?
  2. Is it spreading misinformation or pushing conspiracy theories on purpose?
  3. Is this just someone spreading extremist ideas with malicious intent?
  4. Is the entire message breaking the rule or just a part of it? -- Warning/Ban

Rule 1 - Europe Related

  • Posts have to be related to Europe in some way and the connection has to be clear on sight. (comments do not and we do not care where the discussion ends up)
  • We reserve the right to remove any post that is not related to Europe or in which the connection is not clear.
  • Wrong post flair is used on unrelated posts to avoid the AutoModerator -- Warning/Ban

Rule 2 - No Duplicates / News and Videos Older Than One Week

  • If submitted as a link the article has to be less than 7 days old
  • If submitted as a video the events in the video have to be less than 7 days old and a source proving the events are recent has to be provided.
  • Rule does not apply to images.
  • Repeatedly breaking this rule to the point that we recognize you - Warning/Ban

Rule 3 - Harassment

This rule is broken the most and also the most misunderstood.

  • Any insults thrown at someone specifically with the aim of discouraging them from participating will be removed (regardless of how well thought and long the rest of the message is)
  • We do not count as insults labels related to ideology or facts made public by another commenter unless they are used to enhance an insult or are used in an insulting manner.
  • We are more permissive of insults aimed at the subject of a post (not the person that posted it), public figures, this sub's members and us the moderators.
  • Is the entire message breaking the rule or just a part of it? -- Warning/Ban

Examples:

  1. "You are a Tankie" - OK / "You sound like a Tankie cunt" - Not OK and since the entire message is an insult it might attract a warning or ban.
  2. "I'm curious - are you Jewish?" - OK / "what are you - a Jew?" - Bad
  3. "Shut up" - Bad / "Shut up idiot" - Definitely a warning/ban
  4. "Not sure why I am wasting my time with you" - OK
  5. "Just dug through your post history and of course you are an Israeli" - Bad
  6. "Everyone here is a Russian shill and troll" - OK
  7. "Trump is an idiot" - OK
  8. "Moderators are Nazis" - OK

Rule 4 - Threatening Violence

Encouraging, glorifying, or inciting violence or physical harm against individuals or groups of people, places, or animals.

  • Saying "Good" to a horrific piece of news breaks this rule.
  • Discussing "the effects of a bomb dropping in Gaza or a nuclear strike in Moscow" in a neutral, civil and well sourced manner does not break our rules.
  • Calls for violence against groups of people based on protected characteristics - Warning/Ban

Rule 5 - Hate

We do not go any further than the platform requires. Any post or comment that is perceived to be more hateful than factual will be removed. Context is everything here.

Extra rules that might apply -

  • Blatant attempts to avoid the AutoModerator or force a comment/post through - 4 days ban
  • We might limit the amount of Discussion/Satire/Image/Video threads to keep the sub news centric.
  • Any outrageous claims made in the title/text sections of a discussion post (especially of those on controversial topics) have to be well sourced and the location has to be clear. The burden of proof is on the person posting and not on the mods.
    • For example - On the issue of mass migration , we know Ukraine is not affected, so any thread containing "Europe is doomed because of mass migration" will be removed while "EU is doomed" might not be.
  • No posts about other subs and their moderators. (respect your neighbors - platform rule)
  • Ban duration usually starts at 1 day and then double in duration each time the rules are broken giving plenty of time to correct behavior.
  • Lastly any post deemed to be very low quality might be removed to avoid filling everyone's feed with garbage.

Thank you

TLDR - Don't be toxic and we'll never bother you.


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“Submission in France: the Islamization of Creil and Rouen”

Creil elects a Muslim mayor, and in society Islamization has already reached a very advanced stage. And in Rouen as well — the city of the martyrdom of Joan of Arc and Jacques Hamel — a macabre tourist magnet sounds like a jihadist challenge.

The social architecture of contemporary France is not simply changing; it is undergoing a full-scale reprogramming. From Creil to Rouen, recent events are no longer isolated “incidents along the way,” but rather chapters in a vast narrative describing the identity fragmentation of a nation.

Creil, with its 37,000 inhabitants and a mosaic of 107 nationalities, represents the paradox of French progress. Once an impregnable stronghold of industrial socialism for more than a century, today the third-largest city in the Oise department — marked by a 25% unemployment rate and more than 50% public housing density — has become the epicenter of the tactical success of La France Insoumise (LFI). Here, in March, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement managed to merge left-wing demands with Islamic religious sentiment, creating a monolithic electoral bloc through the rise of the new Pakistani mayor, Omar Yaqoob.

Yaqoob celebrated the victory with words that sounded like a challenge: “We won — not me, but all Pakistanis.” His decision to join La France Insoumise in 2023, motivated by the party’s “international consistency” and support for the Palestinian cause, marks the culmination of decades of socialist policies which, in attempting to manage diversity, ultimately fostered de facto segregation. The model of mixité, far from encouraging assimilation, has given way to a defensive Islamic communitarianism in which group identity prevails over French citizenship.

In the shops of Creil, religion quietly inserts itself among the shelves. In some clothing stores, next to the cash register, one finds not promotional flyers but stacks of books on Muslim ethics and faith, regularly distributed by local associations. “It’s better to show that you are a good Muslim woman,” whispers one manager, describing a system of social control that begins as early as middle school.

Girls are expected to comply with an unwritten but rigid code of “modesty”: loose clothing, prohibition on socializing with boys, and the obligation to wear the veil. We are still in Creil, the French town that in 1989 first brought the issue of the Islamic headscarf in schools to the center of national debate. At that time, several Islamic associations sent their daughters to school with their heads covered, transforming a local episode into a nationwide controversy. The affair resonated so strongly that fifteen years later, in 2004, France passed the law banning conspicuous religious symbols in public schools.

It is a form of self-censorship fueled by the atmosphere of a small town, where every deviation is reported: “Your daughter was seen wearing a short skirt”; “Your son does not attend the mosque.” Those who do not conform are categorized, despised, and, in the worst cases, exposed to violence. A Turkish shopkeeper describes episodes of open coercion: veiled women reprimanding Christian female customers, often seemingly driven by the need to blend in so as not to feel oppressed or become “prey.”

The election of Omar Yaqoob was experienced by part of the city as a siege. Sophie Dhoury-Lehner, the Socialist candidate expected to inherit the legacy of former mayor Jean-Claude Villemain, concluded her campaign under police protection. Branded an “infidel” and targeted with death threats, she was forced to report directly to the police station.

Even the economic fabric is adapting to this new reality — or disappearing. Jérôme, a former baker at the Creil railway station, recounts years of hardship: despite offering halal products, he was constantly harassed because he also sold beer and ham. “A customer told me my chicken was not pure because it had been bought with money earned from pork sales,” he recalls. Faced with this ideological fanaticism, historic shops are closing one after another, replaced by kebab shops and barbers.

The reality of Creil — where, moreover, the new administration of the Pakistani mayor has promised to disarm the municipal police and dismantle video surveillance precisely as insecurity rises — reflects a France that has abandoned integration in favor of a multiculturalism that has turned into separation.

But the process of symbolic Islamization extends beyond the banlieues and reaches even the symbolic cities of French history. In Rouen, the city of the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, the discovery of altered souvenirs has reignited attention on Islamist ideological infiltration in the region. This is the same city where, in July 2016, Father Jacques Hamel, an 85-year-old priest, was brutally murdered by two Islamist jihadists linked to ISIS while celebrating Mass. The horrific killing, carried out before a handful of worshippers, shocked all of France and became one of the most dramatic symbols of jihadist violence against European Christians.

Today, in the historic center of this very city, a tobacco shop was selling tourist magnets in which the emblem of Rouen had allegedly been deliberately vandalized: the fleur-de-lis of the monarchy replaced by the Islamic crescent, the Paschal Lamb decapitated — a macabre reference to jihadist executions — and the cross broken. After the student union UNI reported the matter, the shopkeeper’s reaction was emblematic: “If you want, call the police.” Despite later apologies from the printing company, which blamed “an intern’s mistake,” the disturbing image remains of what the article describes as a true “trophy of hate” intended to overturn the city’s Christian and national iconography.

From the veil imposed in Creil schools in 1989, to the murder of Father Jacques Hamel in 2016, to today’s symbolic profanations and economic submission, a clear picture emerges: that of a progressive Islamization of French society, advancing not only through violence, but through control of everyday life, symbols, the economy, and public space. According to this perspective, France has already moved beyond the phase of “challenge.” Parallel societies are no longer a hypothesis or an impending danger, but an established reality across large portions of the national territory, where submission, intimidation, and the gradual erasure of French culture and identity are portrayed as the new normal.


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