diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e336702..84bf6ca 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 shreddit.yml
 praw.ini
+Makefile
 
 # Docs
 docs/_build/
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c6b8ee3..fc369f2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from setuptools import setup
 from codecs import open
 from os import path
 
-VERSION = "2.0.0"
+VERSION = "2.1.0"
 DESCRIPTION = " Remove your comment history on Reddit as deleting an account does not do so."
 
 here = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ setup(
                  "Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop",
                  "Programming Language :: Python"],
     packages=["shreddit"],
-    install_requires=["arrow", "backports-abc", "decorator", "praw", "PyYAML",
-                      "requests", "six", "tornado", "update-checker", "wheel"],
+    install_requires=["arrow", "backports-abc", "praw", "PyYAML", "requests", "six", "tornado"],
+    package_data={"shreddit": ["shreddit.yml.example"]},
     entry_points={
         "console_scripts": [
             "shreddit=shreddit.app:main"
diff --git a/shreddit/app.py b/shreddit/app.py
index 0eeaca8..b25c2d5 100644
--- a/shreddit/app.py
+++ b/shreddit/app.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 import argparse
 import yaml
 import logging
+import os
+import pkg_resources
 from shreddit import default_config
 from shreddit.oauth import oauth_test
 from shreddit.shredder import Shredder
@@ -19,7 +21,14 @@ def main():
         oauth_test(args.praw)
         return
 
-    with open(args.config or "shreddit.yml") as fh:
+    config_filename = args.config or "shreddit.yml"
+    if not os.path.isfile(config_filename):
+        print("No configuration file could be found. Paste the following into a file called \"shreddit.yml\" and " \
+                "try running shreddit again:\n\n")
+        print(pkg_resources.resource_string("shreddit", "shreddit.yml.example"))
+        return
+
+    with open(config_filename) as fh:
         # Not doing a simple update() here because it's preferable to only set attributes that are "whitelisted" as
         # configuration options in the form of default values.
         user_config = yaml.safe_load(fh)
diff --git a/shreddit/shreddit.yml.example b/shreddit/shreddit.yml.example
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..38088a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shreddit/shreddit.yml.example
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+---
+# Login details for Reddit. Fill out if you don't wish
+# to be prompted for a login every time you run Shreddit.
+### NOTE: This may be deprecated as you can specify in praw.ini instead
+username:
+password:
+
+# How many hours of comments you want to keep
+# 24 hours in a day,
+# 168 hours in a week,
+# 672 hours in two fortnights,
+# 720 hours in a month (30 days),
+# 8766 hours in a year (365.25 days)
+hours: 24
+
+# Max score, higher than this and it'll be kept.
+max_score: 100
+
+# Options: new, top, controversial, more?
+sort: new
+
+# Enables print statements to notify you of what's going on
+verbose: True
+
+# Removes your vote before deleting the item
+clear_vote: False
+
+# Options: comments, submitted, overview
+# See: https://github.com/mellort/reddit_api/blob/master/reddit/objects.py#L359
+# Overview: both submissions and comments. Comments / Submitted are as expected
+item: overview
+
+# Anything in this list won't be deleted, coma delimited
+# spaces should work as .strip() is called after splitting
+# on comma.
+whitelist: [AskScience, TheCulture, redditdev, programming, charity, netsec]
+
+# If you want any specific posts to be whitelisted stick 'em in here
+whitelist_ids: []
+
+# If you set this then no editing or deleting will be done
+# but the output from the program will be shown as an example
+trial_run: False
+
+# Don't delete but *do* edit, could prove... interesting to see a comment
+# with 5000 upvotes and it's just a lorem ipsum!
+edit_only: False
+
+# Ignore distinguished comments.
+whitelist_distinguished: True
+
+# Ignore gilded (gold) comments
+whitelist_gilded: True
+
+# Delete everything older that this date, **This ignores whitelists**.
+# Can be used as a second deletion, as in "delete items older than 24 hours
+# except on whitelisted subreddits but after 3 months delete everything.
+nuke_hours: 720
+
+# Save a copy to disk of comments and posts before deleting them.
+keep_a_copy: False
+save_directory: /tmp
+
+# Replacement text format
+# Defines what you want to edit deleted content with pre-deletion (to ensure
+# it's not saved in their database).
+# Default: Random string. But this can be detected as spam in some cases.
+# options: [random, dot, "user entered string"]
+replacement_format: random
+
+# Debug level, how much output you want
+# See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html#logging-levels
+debug: DEBUG
+
+# Define your own wordlist to use as substitution text when
+# replacement_format == random
+wordlist: []
+
+# Batch cooldown
+# This controls how long (in seconds) to wait between each set of 1000 deletions.
+batch_cooldown: 10
+
+# vim: syntax=yaml ts=2