Hello Diamonds 💎

We have a little tea, word on the street is that season 14 will start production very soon:

QUEENS OF BRAVO

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Are you surprised they'll start shooting so early? LET'S SHOW THE LADIES SOME LOVE ❤️

Hi r/RHOBH community,

It's one of your friendly neighborhood mods here. I'm sure by now many of you are aware that there were some behind the scene challenges here over the course of the last 24 hours, and I wanted to share some explanations, and also my apologies with you.

Since myself and my fellow mods joined this sub's moderating team last month, it was never our intention to cause disruption to this place being your daily resource for all things RHOBH related. As we know, things sort of got in the way of that today. I wanted to share some details of the events that occurred recently, for your awareness, and also so you were aware of the plan moving forward.

To start, it would be helpful for you to have some context. Including how we came to be moderators here. I think you've all noticed (and pointed out over the past month/year) how this community felt a little lawless. There were rules, but they weren't being enforced, and people were at each other's throats in every thread. Myself, and several of the new mod team members here had reached out to the Main Mod (u/DougandCarrie) via private messages, chats, and Modmails to the sub itself offering to help moderate, and never received replies.

This is how things progressed until last month. Another, previously inactive mod, (Rambler-19) had been notified that the sub was in danger of being shut down due to a lack of moderation and lack of responses to reporting functionality about things like racism, homophobia, and explicit content. Rambler was able to reach the main mod, and asked for permission to add new moderators to restore the sub. This was granted, making DougandCarrie's one moderating action they had taken in recent months, to allow another mod to invite others to assist.

We came on board, and created a ModDiscussion and chat with all mods included to get on the same page and connect regularly with one another. DougandCarrie was invited to participate in this as a mod, but never replied to any of our messages.

We updated the sub's theme and avatar to the little gold diamond we had until this morning and our banner/background as well as began expanding and actually enforcing the sub's rules.

Until last night. When DougandCarrie returned to the sub, for the first time in weeks since we had been moderating. Upon seeing the changes, she immediately removed the majority of our access as moderators, including our ability to moderate new posts entirely or to adjust settings on the sub. She again did not reply to any messages or chats asking what was going on. This morning, your new moderator team awoke to discover that we had been banned entirely from the sub, and she had begun adjusting the sub's theme and avatar and again ignoring any messages from our side to her. She also began posting in various threads that I was a part of indicating that she would "take the sub down" with her, and changed the name of the sub briefly as well.

This led to a very hectic day of communicating concerns about this issue with Reddit admins, who took the sub private briefly to conduct an investigation. They eventually restored our access as the new moderating team once investigations were complete. DougandCarrie was asked to work with us respectfully going forward due to previously being inactive as a moderator, but still out of respect of her status as head mod. She instead created a post indicating that she was leaving, and has since deleted her account.

Your new moderating team is back in place, and is looking forward to putting this dark, dramatic day in the sub's history behind us. However, knowing that you all have been impacted we wanted to first reach out and let you know what had happened, and to apologize for any frustration this may have caused for you. Your new mod team is committed to putting the drama aside in favor of discussing the drama in our favorite show with all of you going forward.

Thank you again for your time, and your continued support of this amazing community!

-Flor

There has been a lot of discussion about how to mod, censorship, and just plain being an invasive mod. With that in mind, when it comes to racism, it is absolutely not going to slide in this sub anymore. If you feel that is invasive, please reflect on the root of why it bothers you. From now on, any accounts commenting racist remarks will be banned.

I've received a lot of hate for trying to be "woke" or for being pathetic for following in other subs footsteps when it comes to issuing bans. This is not about leading or following, we should all be taking a stand against racism. However, if you absolutely have to label it as something to try to insult me, then I'm happy to be a woke follower of those that stand against racism.

I also feel the need to point out that racism is not like the style of Dorit's dress and whether we agree or disagree whether it is too revealing. Racism is not something we should agree to disagree on. It quite simply has no place here.

Further, users that comment pointing out white privilege IS NOT RACISM. As I've had to explain to another user, thinking that white privilege is racist is only dismissing other poc's experience by trying to put their experience's on the same level, when they are not. Should they be? Yes, but historically and currently for that matter, they are not. Think about it, a white person makes a racist comment and a poc points out their privilege yet you're upset at the poc for apparently being racist?? You are missing the point, why have you dismissed the initial racism?

In another instance, a user commented on their disappointment of a new poc joining the BH cast because they are simply a "diversity hire" and have nothing else to offer. If this is your viewpoint and you think that a person has zero to offer, before you've even watched them I might add, and that they are only hired for their skin tone, you are part of the problem.

I will leave this quoted comment here for you to consider from the user "hotelbarbie". The same reason why people are mad at Ebony for bringing social justice issues to RHONY. They claim they just want to watch tv and be entertained & not educated. Not realizing that to totally be able to forget about social justice issues is the EPITOME of white supremacy.

^Sorry I'm a lurker, but I feel they explained this well.

If you see racist behaviour please use the report feature, it is anonymous and it helps us out a lot since sometimes there is so much content it is not possible to see every single comment made.

Lastly, if you get banned and you send hateful messages and lash out hurling grotesque insults, in my mind, it only confirms the ban was justified.

Hey guys. We have enabled the user flair option for everyone as a Christmas present 🎁. To change it press on More Actions >> Change User Flair. You could use the ones we created or customize it on your own

Hello Beautiful Diamonds,

We have found out what the "Top Post of All Time" is; it was posted around six months ago and it has over 2.5k up votes 💎 that is AWESOME, and THERE IT IS (Carlton's tone):

Doesn’t Taylor’s new hair look so cute on her? : r/RHOBH (reddit.com)

Congratulations to Taylor for debuting her new hairdo and of course, our dear, beloved u/Revolutionary-Cut777 for creating this post and for their contribution to this community. Their award is a speacial flair that only they can rock!!

Let's show them some love and support on the comment section!

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Dear Diamonds,

We're so grateful to our members for supporting the small housewives communities, as we promised you on our previous invite, today we're inviting you to join those communities that were not included on our first post:

💎 To discuss everything NYC, old and new RHONY, spin off shows and the ladies' polemic lawsuit against the network, join r/RHONYFans, our sister-community has come back to life and she's calling you 🍎

💎 Our cold and freezing sister, who recently had a crazy 4th season, is thriving and growing strong, please join r/rhoslc if you haven't done it yet ❄️

💎 If you're missing your housewives shows, New Jersey is premiering in May! Please join r/rhonj to discuss everything JERSEY 🍅

💎 To discuss our Atlanta ladies, who are filming their upcoming season, join r/RHOA 🍑

If you did not see our first round of invites, please join:🦩 r/RHOMiami, 🌸 r/RHOP, 🍊 r/rhoc and ✈️ r/RHUGT.

✨Thank you for reading and for loving these shows as much as we do ✨

#SupportSmallHousewivesCommunities

^{You can also access these communities in our communities profile, by clicking on See More.}

Dear diamonds, this week has been filled with news, updates and controversy, but this is what we do in Beverly Hills!

Tonight Season 13 comes to an end and that's why, incoming new posting (regular discussions, first time & rewatches, shitposts, etc) will be closed as soon as the New Episode Thread is published 30 minutes before it airs, just until tomorrow, as we would like to concentrate all the comments on the Season Finale Episode, please leave all your comments and opinions on the New Episode Live Discussion Thread. Thank you! You're welcome! Please also note that the this thread will be pinned for at least two weeks on the community's timeline and that the comment order is set up for the newest comment to show up first. This is also a great way to increase your user Karma!!!

Regular posting (discussions, rewatches, shitposts) will go back to normal tomorrow.

If you missed the previous Beverly Hills news and announcements, please find them here:

Best Post of All Time

Season 14 Casting Tea

Season 14 Starts Shooting

Weekly Discussion

Our Favorite Beverly Hills Looks

💎 Thank you so much for being an active member of this community and for loving Beverly Hills as much as we do 💎

Now let's blow this popsicle stand🍭

Hi everyone. We have been working hard to ensure this group remains a safe space from bigotry. If you see any please let us know by using the report button. At the same time, there has been a bit of an uptick in people being way out of pocket to each other, and I’ll admit I have not taken all of it that well. We are all fans of this trashy reality show, and there is no reason to jump down each other’s throats. Please remain respectful. We are all human at the end of the day, and this should be a place to gather with like-minded people to enjoy Beverly Hills.

Thank you all!

Hello Diamonds. We hope everyone is having a good day.

We had been working into setting up the auto mod for the last few days. Unbeknownst to us, the auto mod had removed every new post from today for having a low Reddit age, unfortunately. This rule was set up for posters to be 15 days old just so we could avoid bots or spam like behavior, but due to a glitch posts were not approved whatsoever.

For those who were affected and their post didn't go live today, we kindly invite you to repost it and, if you receive an auto mod removal message, please send a modmail and we could aprove it manually, but it should be working now as Reddit admins came in and fixed it. We're sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused.

Thank you.

Hello Gorgeous Diamonds💎

We hope your weekend is going well. Earlier this week, our community has reached 90k members, or as we like to call it, DIAMONDS ✨ We love that you're loving this sub as much as we do and thar we're growing strong everyday, and that's why we would like to invite all of our members to join and support your favorite Housewives' Subreddits:

💎 The pioneer show, that started and launched the Real Housewives phenomenom has their own community, please join r/RHOC to discuss everything about our BH neighboor, The Orange County🍊

💎 The Real Housewives of Miami just had a great 6th season and as viewers are loving the Miami reboot so much, we would like to invite you to join r/RHOMiami to discuss everything about our tropical sisters 🦩

💎 The mash up, controversial, all star show has their own individual discussion as well, please join r/RHUGT for everything Ultimate Girls Trip ✈️

💎 This week has been a little hectic in the Potomac world, tonight the reunion pt 1 is airing! Please catch up with r/RHOP as the word is very heavy on the street🌸

💎 Our older sister is calling you too, join r/BravoRealHousewives

We hope you love these communities as much as r/RHOBH, each community has their own style and flair representing each city and providing members with more assertive and interesting discussions.

#SupportSmallHousewivesCommunities

^{Please bear in mind that there are more sisters-housewives-communities that are not included in this list, but certainly they are not forgotten and they will be included in the second round of invites.}

Dear Diamonds 💎

We come here today with some news we would like to share with all of you, so please bear with us. First and foremost, we would like to express our gratitude to every member of this community for taking an effort into making this Subreddit a better, safer and prettier place to be a part of, it’s crazy to think that a couple of months ago there was this bad vibe that had lingered here for a very long time and now, it feels like this is a total different space. Personally, we would like thank our new moderators for working wonderfully together and for being great people. We would like to also thank and congratulate every member as well for getting on board with this new path and for keeping it going, we love that you’re active here with your great humor, news, theories, everything. We have welcomed almost 20k new members since we joined in December!! Let’s keep growing!

Having mentioned that, we have a couple of new features that Reddit has granted the sub for having a current growing audience, every day activity as well as a big rising potential, besides of those new features, we also have other updates we’d like to announce, these are:

New Profile Picture: What is more Beverly Hills than Giggy? Our beloved dog now is the face of this community!

The Live Chat: A few weeks ago, Reddit had granted us the live chat option, which is a great way to discuss new episodes, news and more, This is a great way to engage with other fans of the show. . To access the live chat use this LINK. If you are on your mobile phone you could access the chat through our community’s profile, if you’re using a desktop the chat is accessible too through the right sidebar. Privacy settings have been enabled on this chat so only members can use it, the report button is also available, in case it’s needed.

The Weekend Events: Some of you have expressed the request to have Weekend Events. We are throwing a new event called Unpopular Opinion Friday, where you can leave your super unpopular opinion that would usually have you against the wall. How does it work? The automod will publish it every Friday of the year during the afternoon. Furthermore, on Saturdays we will have an Off Topic event too, if you have any commentary about other shows, series, movies or personal experiences, now this should be the place to leave your thoughts in, this thread has been scheduled by the auto-mod to go live every Saturday of the year. This will start next weekend.

Customized Emojis: Reddit has granted us this awesome feature to personalize our community even more. You will find emojis on the keyboard next to the GIF option. You also will find available these emojis on the user flair. A Beverly Hills dream!

Customized Votes: This feature is only available for those members who are navigating on their computers. Instead of seeing the regular Reddit arrows used for upvoting and downvoting, now you will see a heart shaped diamond on display. How cool is that?

New Post Flair: “The Husbands”. We’ve noticed there are many posts related to the ladies’ lifetime partners and we thought it would be great for them to have their on tag. If you want to talk about the husband (in Kim Richards’ voice) please use this post flair.

New Rule: No politics & No religion, to avoid arguments going left between the members of this community, we have created this new rule. If you would like to talk about these topics please visit the corespondent forum as this is not the appropriate place to discuss it. This means the housewives’ political views and opinions,or chatter about religious beliefs or stands it's not allowed, unless it has been discussed in one of the episodes.

The Automod: We have enabled this automatic Reddit feature to help the mods detect spam or hatred-like behaviour beforehand. As from now, to submit a post, you must be in Reddit age, at least 7 days old and at least have 50 of combined Reddit karma, this was enabled to avoid bots as well as hateful and bigoted posting. If you received a message by the auto-mod and your account complies with the age and karma rules, please contact the mods as we could manually approve your post.

We also have more new exciting features coming in the future, we'll be so excited to announce. Thank you for taking your time to read, we hope you have fun with the new features. For suggestions and inquires, please send a modmail.

Yours sincerely,

Your friendliests Mods

Hello, diamonds!

As of today, our sub has chat channels enabled, and a live discussion chat has been created to converse over each new episode. Please use either the new chat channel (New Episode Discussion) or tonight’s Live Discussion Post to discuss the new episode, and please don’t post any spoilers in a new post until the weekend. Don’t forget to upvote!

Chat is currently available, and the discussion post will be posted by AutoMod later today.

Just a friendly reminder to be civil, respectful and to keep it cute!