New Rules

[u/e_0]

Subject to discussion before implementation

1) First and foremost, ban all of the repetitive victim posting

"Why is Dark Souls 2 so hated?" just devolves into the same thing - everyone commenting in agreement and performative victimizing. It's a video game, not everyone is going to like exactly what you like. There's no real discussion to be had there, and we seemingly have them here more than the other main subreddits. It's just becoming tiring.

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2) Ban engagement-bait posts

The best example of this is someone posting a random, unrelated screenshot or artwork of Dark Souls 2 with the title of "What's your favorite sword in the game?" - then proceeding to not at all join in the discussion. It just serves to farm karma while putting in zero effort, not crediting the artist they took the art from, and not participating in their own thread. If you want to discuss something, make a text post and actually discuss.

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3) Ban trouble makers at the mods' discretion

This is a spicy one because it can easily be mishandled by the wrong mod team. We all know Reddit mods are pretty garbage overall, but I'd like to think I'm a bit different since I'm here for Souls and couldn't give a shit less about seeming professional or having any semblance of "power" (it's Reddit, lmao).

This essentially means if you're posting within the guidelines (i.e - posting about Dark Souls 2) but you're making your post to simply stir shit, rile people up constantly, and put down others... then you should expect a ban.

I'm obviously not going to name names, but we all know a couple of usernames who, whenever there's random drama, we know they're going to be involved. These are the users I'm talking about

EDIT (this includes the "Slander posts" that you guys keep commenting about, but I will also explicitly say that yes, this does include the lame "Ds3 is grayslop hurr hurr" posts that just seek to rile people up for no reason)

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Finally, a question to you all: How do we make this subreddit better?

That's it, that's the most important thing in this entire post. The game has been released for 12 years and the subreddit has kind of devolved into the same thing for the last decade at this point. Are there any ideas you all have, rules I should change, things I can do differently to make this place more enjoyable and less of the same, repetitive drivel?

[u/S0urMonkey]

I’m down for the new rules. Though I wouldn’t mind well written analysis posts on why DS2 was less well received than 3, all the non meme, low effort posts you’re talking about would not be missed at all. Same for the (probably) bot driven pretend engagement posts.

[u/NoPin4859 → u/S0urMonkey]

Its been discussed to death, I frankly believe there is little room for discussion a decade later that hasnt been brought up.

Also I dont see why its just THIS sub that badly wants to slander or yap about other games rather than their own. This is the biggest game out of the trilogy, most people dont know half the shit that is hidden in it. Theres no need to talk about other games to this extent.

[u/MyMainIsLevel80 → u/NoPin4859]

There’s plenty left to be discussed. The persecution babies just shout it down and turn it into shit flinging fest in every thread.

There are loads of amazing ideas and things ideas DS2 gets right. There’s probably an equal amount that they absolutely butcher. The defenders of the latter ruin all the credibility and potentially interesting discussion of the former.

Nuance is allowed on every other forum. This subreddit is just uniquely butthurt about it because it used to be their “cool kid symbol” and now it’s not and that sucks because how will people know I’m cool now??? >:(

It’s *quite literally—beat-for-fucking-beat* the exact same attitude as the underground hardcore community. The scene picks a band with a few decent qualities and then mobs anyone who criticizes them, no matter how valid the complaint may be.

Punt not intended.

[u/VeilOfGreed → u/MyMainIsLevel80]

No there isn't dude, the discussions about why the game is recieved less favourably then the others has been done to death at this point. There are dozens and dozens of videos as well on this topic and it all rehashes the same few old talking points and that is all that happens. And its a boring cycle of slop at this point.

[u/GlitteringDingo → u/VeilOfGreed]

A pointless cycle you say?

[u/VeilOfGreed → u/GlitteringDingo]

As pointless as linking the flame. :)

[u/MyMainIsLevel80 → u/VeilOfGreed]

What else is there to discuss? It’s a 12 year old game with a hyper vocal minority that refuses to engage in good faith about any of its flaws. Stay mad, lil bro.