Important site wide information
Hello out there in Avocadoland! Please give an enormous welcome to our new Leader Beans (mods)! Future Ex Mrs. Malcolm The Duchess Approves Merve Man-in-the-moon-man Dingdong sunshine Cop on the Edge-ish Forget it Jake You read that right, … Continue reading Welcome New Leader Beans
Hello Avocados! Your friendly mod/Leader Bean team here! We’ll get right to it: we’re looking to add some new mods. We’ve been planning this for awhile, and also the wonderful Drunk Napoleon has stepped down from his mod duties, and … Continue reading A Call for Leader Beans
This is your friendly neighborhood Leader Beans here to talk about an addendum to our policy on banning that we have been discussing among ourselves for quite some time. Going forward we are going to be experimenting with the use … Continue reading Guidelines Addendum: Temporary Bans
As we rapidly approach the one year anniversary of our site, we need to take care of the grown up stuff before the celebrations can begin. The overhead to keeping this place going is pretty reasonable, mostly because the work … Continue reading 1st Annual Avocado Fundraiser
Please post your suggestions for terms and definitions to help make this thread more accurate and comprehensive! Austin Freaks A post from early on in the Avocado’s history (when it was called the ‘AVClub After Dark’) asked if there were any … Continue reading Glossary of Avocado-Specific Terms
It’s time for the ever exciting time where we announce a new guideline! And also post a gentle reminder about some of our previously existing guidelines. So, the new guideline. We’ve seen a lot of discussion and concern about people … Continue reading Guideline Update and Guideline Reminder
We wanted to put up a reminder post about how you can contact your mods, and remind you to please use these methods of contact so we can take care of issues and concerns as they happen! If you ever … Continue reading Please Contact Your Mods! Here’s How.
It’s time for a brief break from your daily routine for an important announcement. We’ve had a lot of serious talks here lately, but this is a fun one. We have officially passed 5000 posts, over here at the new … Continue reading Celebrating 5000 Threads at The Avocado
Hey everyone! Back on the Disqus days, we had a discussion about sexism on the Avocado. Highlighted issues at the time included overly aggressive flirting/innuendo, objectification of female celebrities, casual sexism, and playing Devil’s Advocate or denying sexism. I think … Continue reading Sexism on the Avocado: Part 2
We’ve had a lot of curiosity over the years about how being a mod here works and what mods see, so I thought I’d provide a little informational thread on mod basics and what we as mods do/see. Most of … Continue reading Behind the Scenes of Leader Beans
As many of you aware by now, a couple weeks ago WordPress ran an update that knocked out most of our authors. I’ve done my best to get everyone back up and running, but in the process, a former issue … Continue reading Attention Avocado Authors
It’s been a bit since we’ve had a State of the Avocado address, and while we don’t have any general guideline or rule updates, we’d like to focus on one of our guidelines that has come up a lot recently, … Continue reading State of the Avocado Special Edition – The Red Handle Rule
It’s time for a guideline change announcement! We’re making an addition to guideline #2, which currently reads: 2. Daily/Nightly Open Discussions: An “open” discussion will be posted twice a day, scheduled for 11:00 Eastern (08:00 Pacific) and 23:00 (11pm) Eastern … Continue reading Guideline Update: Open Thread Timing
It’s time for another State of the Avocado update! The format for this one will be a little different. We (the mods) felt that some of the rules and guidelines needed a refresher and clarification. So below, we are going … Continue reading State of the Avocado: Rules Deep Dive Edition
Good day and welcome back to Lutair’s Declassified Disqus Survival Guide. The Guide will give you a quick tutorial on to how to spice up your comments in Disqus. Chapter One: Images, Gifs, Videos Oh My! Images and Gifs: Example: Disqus makes adding images … Continue reading Lutair’s Declassified Disqus Survival Guide 3rd Edition
Can you improve paradise? Well, based on random comments that pop up on the OTs and SotC threads, there seems to be a general thought that you sure can. We’ve done the best we can to make this site as … Continue reading The Avocado Suggestion Thread
Alright, folks, for the new year we have two new guideline updates to announce! So with no further ado, they are: Guideline #11: Flag abuse. We want you to feel free to flag posts that break the rules or guidelines … Continue reading Avocado Updates: Two Guideline Additions
Based on upvotes, I’ve added pretty much all the categories that I thought were serious enough to be included. And there’s a lot. Here’s what we are looking at so far: 1 – Best Discovery – Media you have discovered … Continue reading Second Annual Pits: The Nominations
Content warning here: this post is about discussions of harassment and sexual assault, and while direct descriptions of those things will not be included, it could still be distressing. Because stories of harassment and sexual assault are in the news … Continue reading The Avocado and Harrassment/Assault Discussions
Image by Wen Shi Greetings everyone! There have certainly been whispers about this for a while but it’s time for the official announcement. With Giftmas coming to a close and the end of the year fast approaching, we are bringing … Continue reading The Pits: Best in Media Achievement for 2017 Announcement
First, some background on the Pits: The original categories thread The original nominations thread The winners So here we are at phase 1 for the second year of awards. Right now, I am just looking for suggestions for categories. No … Continue reading The Second Annual Pits: Categories
