Happy Lunar New Year to everyone. This group has had an amazing year despite the major rumbles the community has seen for various reasons. This decision is not yet set in stone, but to begin the process, I wanted to announce the creation of r/rws_private, a private community version of this group. It will be run the same way this one is - with a strong emphasis on providing objective, unbiased information, and combatting misinformation, to help any well-meaning community member have the best experience possible.

If you would like to be invited, please comment on this thread and click on the subreddit name to request to join. Make sure to comment as it will help with the vetting of each member. I will leave this post up for the foreseeable future, but it will be deleted at some point.

Do not worry if your request is not accepted immediately as it may take time to go through all requests. If you do not comment, your request will not be accepted.

I will do my best to answer any questions, too, if there are any.

Edit

I am going through the requests slowly. We had thousands within the first 12 hours of posting. It’ll take some time. Please continue sending join requests through the subreddit link above and commenting below. If you cannot send a request (please at least try), then mention that in your comment.

2nd Edit

Thank you everyone for all of the praise you are sharing for this group. To clear up any misconceptions, making the group private is not about making anything artificially exclusive, or keeping regular people out. We all were new to this space at one point, too. I grappled with this decision for a while because I don't believe in gatekeeping. We'll all continue to do our best to make sure anyone has access to helpful, reliable, reputable information. My goal has always been to help others be informed in order to allow them to make strong choices.