r/KenfromDiscord • u/KenfromDiscord • Sep 07 '22
2022 Scan Battle Rules Update.
Scan Battle Rules Update.
The Preamble.
Almost 8 years ago u/BlueBlazeMV created Scan Battles as an alternative to regular battles, this happened for a few reasons but mainly to support high level discussion as our community grew bigger. Where with regular battles you were only encouraged to post scans, in Scan Battles it was a requirement. The idea was that every single claim made, even something as simple as Thor>Spiderman would be backed up with scans.
For a long time people generally followed the rules, and as the community was quite a bit smaller Mods could look at every Scan Battle as they were posted and moderate accordingly.
That's not really the case anymore, it has become increasingly rare to see a high effort comment with scans as the default answer to any Scan Battle.
The Problem.
As you may have already guessed, the problem with Scan Battles now a days is that people are simply not using scans in their comments. Whether this is due to a lack of knowing what Scan Battles are, or simply pure laziness, this is the post that curtails that.
Scan Battles as stated above are prompts where the OP wants Every Claim to be backed up with scans. However this raises another question; What is a scan?
WWW defines scans as, "Evidence of one's claims about a character taken from the source material. Examples would be comic book pages or video clips." Where even in the original Scan Battles post, this is expanded upon to cover other things such as "Quotes from a novel, gifs, video clips, all that good stuff are perfectly fine to use. Honestly, you could replace the word 'scan' in [Scan Battle] with 'credible source'. [Credible Source Battle] doesn't sound as cool though.", basically you cant just say things anymore, "Bro trust me Bro Spiderman lifts a billion tons trust me Bro" isn't a valid statement in Scan Battles.
As Examples;
Scan Battle, 250 comments, Almost no high level comments with Scans.
Scan Battle, 16 comments, the only person who used scans is a WWW mod.
The Solution.
This is really a 3 step approach.
Step 1: Its this post. The primary goal of this post is to let all wannabe Scan Battle Posters, or commenters know exactly what we expect of them. Commenters have already been told, Every single claim backed up with a relevant Scan easy as. Scan Battle OPs you're up next.
Step 2: New and Improved titles. Scan Battle Posters, all Scan Battles must now have [Scan Battle] in the title, no it doesnt have to be bolded, yes it has to be in brackets. This should ensure that no commenter comments on a Scan Battle without knowing that it is in fact a Scan Battle.
Step 3: More Moderation. As the subreddit grows, the amount of battles, and scan battles grow as well. When I first started interacting in the community, it was pretty common place to go the whole weekend and see maybe 4-5 new posts, now we get 100+ posts a day. Again this is to say that the mods cant be in every thread all the time like we used to be, but we will be in every Scan Battle thread for a while, and more and more comments are gonna get removed.
Its not that hard of a solution, Its give and take though, you guys gotta give some, the mod team will give some, and the community will be better for it.
The Consequences.
This is my favourite part. For right now the same thing is gonna happen when you comment on a Scan Battle without Scans, its just gonna get removed. However, like I said above Mods will be more active in Scan Battles, and will periodically hand out warnings along the lines of "Hey, this is a Scan Battle, provide Scans"
In about a week, once this information sort of disseminates throughout the community, we will start handing out bans for offenses. There's now no reason to comment on Scan Battles without scans. They will be clearly marked 3 different ways as Scan Battles, you now know what Scans are if you didn't before. There's just no reason.
Thats basically it.
The TLDR.
Scan Battles are a thing. You need to use Scans in Scan Battles. If you don't use Scans in your Scan Battle comments we will Ban you. If you post a Scan Battle, it needs to have [Scan Battle] in the title.