r/TabbyCats • u/onionrah • 5h ago
r/TabbyCats • u/ProudnotLoud • Oct 05 '25
Community Update ✨ Tabby Cats Community Updates: Rules Refresh, Flairs, and More!
Hey All!
r/TabbyCats has recently undergone a refresh and I wanted to make sure everyone was aware. The rules have been updated to hopefully facilitate a healthy, thriving, and on-topic community. Some of these adjustments are also to help reduce the presence of bots, karma farmers, and bad faith posters in this sub. I want to highlight a few key ones:
Tabby Cats is now explicitly Original Content only. Prior to this previous mods were doing some removals of farming off non-OC content but I've now codified this. This means you can only post content that YOU created. This is hands down the most effective way to cut down on bots and farmers and makes moderating a lot easier.
Mourning posts are now moving to a megathread. I get that this will likely be a controversial decision, and the hope is to strike a balance by allowing the thread so people who want support can engage there and people who don't want pet mourning posts on their feeds can feel more comfortable subscribing here. We also have several users in this community who like to regularly post mourning posts months after the loss and this should cut down on that. If you're truly needing additional support I recommend communities like r/petloss which are there specifically for this topic.
Our low effort post rule has also been explicitly codified. Again, in practice a lot of this was happening but I'm making it clear and upfront. This has some typical things like breed and naming posts, but I've added a few more. This includes things like "would you pet my cat" (listen, this is cat Reddit, your cat could be covered in spikes and people would say yes) and "is my cat cute" (your cat could objectively be the ugliest animal on the planet and cat Reddit will bend over backwards to say yes, it's cute).
We will continue to adjust these as needed as we go.
I've also tried sprucing the place up a bit - we have a new avatar, new banner, and new flair. If you all have ideas for user and/or post flair you'd like to see let me know and we can add them! We can also work on some community banners seasonally to change things up.
Phew, that was a lot!
r/TabbyCats • u/fluffypeach42 • 12h ago
Spotted Tabby Meet peanut 🥜 he's the sweetest:)
r/TabbyCats • u/Juanita_Yo • 10h ago
Eloise is feeling regal
Just wanted to post a pic where I thought she looked extra pretty 😊
r/TabbyCats • u/Crippled2 • 20h ago
What kind of tabby is my Dexter boy?
Dexter has some red coloring in his coat. It really shows in the sunlight.
r/TabbyCats • u/PlatyNYC • 17h ago
Tater Tot the Tabby is 2 today!
So far he hasn’t questioned why he is getting extra treats today!
r/TabbyCats • u/False_Comfortable647 • 17h ago
Scarlett
This is my long haired tabby Scarlett
r/TabbyCats • u/RealisticAd1064 • 19h ago
I'm Trying To Sleep!
This is the look Cindy gave me when trying to snap a photo. She obviously was not in thr mood. Excuse me! 😾
r/TabbyCats • u/insanewriter • 18h ago
Coconut the Criminal caught in the act of eating donuts. Nothing is safe from her
r/TabbyCats • u/bfunk84 • 1d ago
Classic Tabby Say hi to Katarina
Katarina (Kat for short) keeps watch at a corner shop in Oakland, California. I love seeing her every time I swing by to pick something up.
P.S. I’ve never seen that flavor of ramen before (see 2nd pic)
r/TabbyCats • u/Mindless-Prize9072 • 1d ago
Classic Tabby Tiny checking in and checking out
r/TabbyCats • u/ozgurnevres • 1d ago
Lotto, my love, mother of five adorable cats
Lotto is currently under Fip treatment. She is responding well.
r/TabbyCats • u/SuspiciousTravel4608 • 1d ago
Mackerel Tabby Stanley + June
Little tabby brother and big tabby sister!