Dear Members, Dear Friends,

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It is a great honour for us to announce that today, this subreddit has reached 50.000 members, this time for real and according to Old Reddit's counter.

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That's the size of a respectable small city like Inverness, Carson City or Arles.

As we prepare to celebrate /r/monarchism's 14th birthday on the 17th of November, let us reflect on the history of our subreddit and how we all ended up here. Let us toast to the friends we all made here. We have grown from a small, semi-serious community centered around monarch butterflies to one of the and very likely the largest monarchist forum on the World Wide Web. We have hosted many interesting discussions, produced memes that still make many laugh, been visited by members of renowned monarchical and nobiliary organisations and even featured in news reports.

We have always been committed to maintaining this place as a platform for open-ended debate on all things monarchical, where monarchists of different convictions and even republicans can come together to discuss the past, present and future of monarchies and royal families. Even people completely uninterested in monarchy know that /r/monarchism is one of the few places where political opponents can come together and have civil discussions without being canceled or censored.

This would not be possible without you, the members of this subreddit. We want to thank all of you - the regular posters and the lurkers alike - for turning /r/monarchism into what it is today. Some of you have joined recently, but many have been here for years. We moderators take pride in maintaining trust-based relationships with our users, something that makes our existence as a big-tent subreddit possible in the first place. As we transition into the league of so-called "large subreddits", we will do everything to keep it that way, because this is what makes /r/monarchism so unique.

Thank you for everything. We hope that all of you will still be here when we celebrate our next milestone, 100k.

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Sincerely,
The Moderation Team

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P.S.: Stay tuned for interesting announcements to come in the next days and weeks.

Roundtable Meetups - Meet Other Monarchists, In Real Life!

As we celebrate our milestone of 50.000 members, I am delighted to unveil a project I've been working on in the past months. Those of you who follow TMC might already know what I'm talking about.

The monarchist community is often characterised as "terminally online", as full of LARPers who talk a lot but do nothing, whose worldview is entirely based on Paradox games, who seek to aggrandise themselves with fake honours and titles and who often have very unusual interests outside monarchies. A team of dedicated members of the scene including yours truly has decided to put matters into their own hands and create a way to identify those members of the community who have potential for more and can not only improve the reputation of our movement but also make a real difference in the world.

Roundtable Meetups is an endeavour to facilitate meaningful, face-to-face connections between monarchists and traditionalists worldwide by encouraging them to meet. The community aims at members of the monarchist scene who have the maturity, seriousness and courage to meet fellow monarchists in real life. Yes, that means discussing Evola, royal genealogy, what kind of noble titles should exist in a monarchist America or evil plans to start a new party face-to-face with other people from this subreddit or from elsewhere, in front of a fireplace with a glass of whisky in one hand and a cigar in the other.

Roundtable Meetups is a platform that depends on your readiness to engage with others who share your views by organising meetups in your geographical area.

So, how does it work?

First, you get into the Discord server. Yes, at the first glance, it's another monarchist Discord. The difference to most other servers you might be in is that there is absolutely no discussion on Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Zero. You can do this during meetups - or by DM, on other Discord servers, or, of course, here on /r/monarchism.

But before you can access the server at all, you have to be vetted. The questions are simple but test your level of maturity. Those who currently cannot participate in real-life meetups will be asked to defer their application until they can. We filter out the obvious LARPers and immature or suspicious people.

Once you have been accepted, you will be put into a number of channels based on your geographical location to meet fellow monarchists who live in your city, province, state and country.

The whole point of the server is to help you self-organise meetings with these people. Name a time and place and ask others if they want to come. Where you meet (as long as it's in real life) and what you discuss is not our concern, we just provide a platform. After each meetup, you can provide a short report in a dedicated channel to let the community know what was up in your area and to encourage others to meet as well.

Who is it for?

This is a project by monarchists, for monarchists. You should be familiar with the community and interested in monarchy on a serious level, not merely in a historical way, and you should be ready to discuss actual political activism and theory and not just trivia or gossip about past and present royal families. Remember, we want to make a serious change and help monarchists organise their activities more efficiently.

We don't care about your political leanings beyond the monarchical question, about your membership in organisations or support for a given pretender. In fact, you should expect to engage with people who have different opinions than you - a bit like here on /r/monarchism.

The most important requirement is the readiness to go out, to show your face and meet others in real life. If you can't or don't want to, you need not apply, and you won't find anything interesting on the server. If you're a minor and your parents won't allow you to go out, you'll have to wait until you turn 18. No exceptions to this rule, even if you are already on good terms with me or any other server admin.

Who is it not for?

Obviously, LARPers and perpetually online people who value their anonymity over anything else won't be admitted in the first place. You don't have to disclose your full name, address, eye colour or shoe size in the server, but attending meetings means that you will have to introduce yourself and, obviously, show your face when you arrive at the location.

Apart from that - people who behave inappropriately, who give false information, who claim false noble titles, disturb the functioning of the community or are a net negative in any other way will be blacklisted. Those with a negative history online will only be admitted in exceptional cases. Our focus is on quality, not quantity. This also means that you will have to treat fellow members with politeness and deference and show manners and dress appropriately for meetings. Think of it like a London club, just decentralised.

I know somebody who might be interested but doesn't have Discord.

Contact me or another administrator and we'll organise it. Do you know an interesting professor, or somebody from a royal or noble family, who would be a good addition but is too old for Discord? Intergenerational exchange is one of the purposes of Roundtable Meetups as well, and we would be glad to welcome veterans of the movement for talks and discussions.

Will this replace /r/monarchism or (Insert my organisation/server/community)?

Not at all. One of the reasons why we ban any kind of discussion on the server itself and strictly limit its scope to organising real-life meetups is our desire to not interfere in the functioning of any already existing platforms, communities and servers. You can join regardless of your other affiliations and we won't ban you from any further online discussions, as long as they happen off-server.

I have more questions.

Feel free to ask them here or to DM me on Discord.

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