Hey everyone,
As our community grows, we want to ensure r/Erbil remains a high-quality, useful, and welcoming space for residents, expats, and visitors alike.
Lately, the front page of the subreddit has been overwhelmed by repetitive posts, low-effort rants, and intense debates surrounding demographics, immigration, and ethnic relations. While we understand these are real-world topics that people want to discuss, the sheer volume of these posts is drowning out everything else—local news, city events, questions about neighborhoods, recommendations, and daily life in Erbil.
We are not banning these discussions entirely, but to keep the subreddit from turning into a one-topic limited space, we are introducing two new rules effective immediately:
1. No Low-Effort or Repetitive Rants
If a topic (e.g., a specific debate about demographics or immigration) has already been posted and discussed within the last 72 hours, new standalone threads on the exact same topic will be removed. Please use the search bar and contribute to existing threads rather than starting a new one every time you have a thought. Furthermore, screenshot-only posts of social media drama without constructive context will be removed.
2. Posts Must Be Directly Relevant to Erbil City
Many recent posts are broad national or regional political debates that belong on general country subreddits. If a post is about country-wide politics, broader Middle Eastern geopolitics, or general ethnic relations that do not specifically and directly impact the day-to-day running of Erbil city, it will be removed.
Where to post instead: For broad political, historical, or national discussions, please utilize r/kurdistan or r/Iraq, which are better equipped for those larger conversations.
Our goal here isn't to police opinions or suppress anyone. We just want to ensure that when someone visits r/Erbil, they see a reflection of the entire city—its food, its development, its daily challenges, its culture, and its community—not just a non-stop debate feed.
Thank you for helping us keep the sub organized and readable! Let us know if you have any questions in the comments below.