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r/beards • u/Gmellotron_mkii • May 11 '26

Mod Announcements New Rule! 5: No Undisclosed Third-Party Account Operation

38 Upvotes

Hello Fellow Beardsmen,

We are introducing new Rule 5.

No Undisclosed Third-Party Account Operation

A. No agencies, chatters, contractors, or third parties pretending to be the account owner.

B. Team-managed or multi-operator accounts must be clearly disclosed.

C. No AI-assisted or automated messaging presented as personal human interaction.

D. Failure to respond to moderator verification requests may result in a permanent ban.

We are adding this due to the rise of AI-generated content, overseas chatter agencies, and third-party operated accounts across social platforms. Many OF/JF style accounts are operated by agencies, and we do not want opportunists using r/beards to farm engagement, push NSFW promotion, or maximize profit through fake posts like "Keep or Shave?" "Which one?" "Should I trim it?" posing in a gym. Zero interaction on those posts. It's unnecessary. The rule compliments Rule 4, Photos must be of yourself.

If an account is flagged for NSFW, moderators may manually audit the account and send a verification message. Accounts that fail to respond within the timeframe given WILL be permanently banned. *100%* banned.

This sub is for real people, real photos, and genuine interaction.

r/beards modsquad

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r/beards • u/Gmellotron_mkii • May 01 '26

Rule Update — #2 and #3 - Shirtless and Sexually Suggestive Content

188 Upvotes

Hello Beardsmen,

We’ve split the newly implemented “No shirtless and sexually suggestive content” into two separate rules.

Reason: people kept trying to merge two different arguments into one — “it’s shirtless but not sexually suggestive.”

That created unnecessary back-and-forth in modmail because some of you guys couldn't help telling us that they are not sexy. Stop saying you are not sexy. Jeez

We’re not doing that anymore, so here are the zero-ambiguity rules, back to basics:

Rule 2 — All individuals Must Be Fully Clothed

All individuals must wear a shirt that covers the torso. No bare chest, stomach, armpit or underwear/pelvic area.

Rule 3 — Zero Tolerance for NSFW Submissions

No explicit, sexually suggestive, or provocative content.

These are independent rules. Violating either results in removal and escalation per standard policy.

This has been the standard for a decade and is no longer needed for you to get pissy and keep telling us what's sexy and what's not on modmail. It’s now written to remove ambiguity and to reduce unnecessary modmail debates.

Thank you very much.

r/Beards mod team

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r/beards • u/Maghetmeerzijn • 2h ago

Progress & Updates Chop chop buzz buzz

96 Upvotes

What grows can be cut off, what's cut off can grow back again. Trying to learn how to maintain my beard so today i've used the clippers for the first time to reduce the sides and fade them into the chinhair and mustache

The sides were fanning out and it started to bother me and look a bit silly.

Pretty happy with the result. Looks fresh imo. Used 5-6 guard with the grain and 3-4 scooping against the grain at the sideburns. Shaped with the trimmer, cut the stache with scissors.

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r/beards • u/brekbutter2129 • 6h ago

Progress & Updates 65 days of yeard, 300 to go

170 Upvotes

(Started from ≈ 2-3mo of growth before going for the yeard, did not start clean shaven lol)

20 comments

r/beards • u/No-Manufacturer-9575 • 1h ago

Casual Post Most definitely been one of those days.

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r/beards • u/TownDestr0yer • 58m ago

Progress & Updates Thinking another month of growth will be about right for the winter.

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r/beards • u/JackCD14 • 13h ago

Asking for Advice Got told the shape was all wrong today?

205 Upvotes

Is the shape ok? I think it is. Just want some unbiased advice. I trim my own beard as I don’t like how the barbers does it. I’m currently growing it for winter. Thanks if you reply

108 comments

r/beards • u/hoytalpha • 9h ago

Casual Post safety first , be careful today.

91 Upvotes

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r/beards • u/Enough-Afternoon8011 • 4h ago

Casual Post Genuinely missed having my facial hair. Glad to be back my brothers!

30 Upvotes

6 comments

r/beards • u/ArtisticAcer • 2h ago

Progress & Updates Improvement or na

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16 Upvotes

8 comments

r/beards • u/zarekking • 4h ago

Casual Post Just my beard and me staring at the void

23 Upvotes

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r/beards • u/DointheRag • 13h ago

Sharing Wisdom I've never grown this out fully before...

110 Upvotes

70 years old and I'm just beginning to understand the benefit of a full beard. Strictly for the record, my mother hates it, hahaha...

14 comments

r/beards • u/Nerdw1fr33 • 1h ago

Casual Post I think it needs a trim

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r/beards • u/Subie71 • 8h ago

Casual Post Starting the winter beard.

41 Upvotes

Fall is in full swing here in MN and the winter beard is starting to come in.

4 comments

r/beards • u/Gnome_Enthusiast81 • 11h ago

Casual Post Fresh trim/shape up

63 Upvotes

4 comments

r/beards • u/TheCatOnRoids • 4h ago

Asking for Advice Decided to keep the beard short! I think it’s been the right choice! (So far… 😅) what do yall think?

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16 Upvotes

10 comments

r/beards • u/CaptainMaxCrunch • 6h ago

Casual Post Rahhh I love having a light beard that looks drastically worse in direct lighting (not). Sometimes it looks amazing and sometimes it vanishes like smoke

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24 Upvotes

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r/beards • u/Mental_Situation_333 • 1h ago

Casual Post Beautiful afternoon.

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Closing up the cabin for winter. Lots of work, but now time for a fire 🔥

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r/beards • u/Lad_to_modify • 12h ago

Progress & Updates Bit of an update

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74 Upvotes

So I posted here a couple of months back looking for advice on growing out my first beard as I was frustrated with how it was going, how straggly it was, and how I could manage how patchy it was at that time.

First thing to say is thanks to everyone who gave me advice, it's put me in good stead, and I persevered with it, and glad I did. If you come here for advice it has to be said that collectively everyone else here can and does give you a good steer.

Ultimately my cheeks haven't really thickened so been trimming the cheeks down and fading a bit between denser and thinner areas, especially aroundmy chin. Not quite an Italian fade beard, but as close as I can achieve and keep half maintained without being too sharp and needing to be at it every few days. It can still be a bit straggly, and I need to work on round my chin a bit I think so it looks a bit less heavy, or to make it more rounded, but I'm fairly happy now! So yeah, bit of a long winded thanks for the advice, but thanks!

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r/beards • u/cb1773 • 6h ago

Casual Post Taming

19 Upvotes

3 comments

r/beards • u/chad59N • 6h ago

Progress & Updates Year growth

17 Upvotes

Keeps growing but stays curled up this size. Year growth, can pull straight to about mid chest.

4 comments

r/beards • u/MattSilverwolf • 15h ago

Casual Post Autofocus understood the assignment

89 Upvotes

16 comments

r/beards • u/JokerOnRL • 22h ago

Casual Post I don’t remember what my chin looks like

291 Upvotes

21 comments

r/beards • u/PatDaddy01 • 10h ago

Casual Post 35 M

28 Upvotes

4 comments

r/beards • u/LupoAnthropophagos89 • 7h ago

Asking for Advice Working on the sides next!

13 Upvotes

Gonna trim it down come Movember but I’m getting more facial growth on the sides. Any other tips for this though?

4 comments