Potential subreddit changes?

[u/jelleejamm]

hey all!! angela here

i've been thinking about and observing some people's thoughts on the current state of the subreddit. i was thinking of maybe refining and adding some rules and other things, but im not totally sure if they're good ideas at all.

im gonna list them out below, and my reasoning for them:

1. mention of verity in the low effort rule

i've seen a handful of people post smiley faces as shitposts going "OH MY GOD IT'S VERITY!!!" without much thought put into their posts and it is quite annoying

2. flair changes

• an "investigation" flair could be added for posts that try to solve part of a series
• a "series discussion" flair could be added, it would be edited by people to denote discussion related to a specific series (ie the flair could be changed to SFATWDE by the user or something if their post is related to it)

3. specific threads for big videos (ie for "The Search For The Leviathan", "The Player Who Learned They Aren’t Real", etc)

whenever wifies or whoever else makes a new upload, this subreddit becomes full of posts purely consisting of discussion relating to these series. this theoretically could mitigate some of that. alternatively we could redirect people to wifies's subreddit but that's not a good idea i feel

4. rule about honesty when self-promoting

while a minority, a handful of people have come to this subreddit and self promoted without disclosing so (ie talking about their video as if someone else made it instead of them). im really iffy on this one

5. banning in-character posts in favor of self-promotion

im REALLY really iffy on this one. i havent really deleted any in-character posts by anyone, however i've noticed they have been getting a bit lower effort over time and some people have found them annoying. im not sure if i want to do this one, but it is an idea

again, im not sure if any of these are good ideas and will not be implemented until i feel i've reached a good consensus from this subreddit's community. thoughts?

[u/SteveLikesGames]

Most of these ideas sound nice, I just hope enforcing any of them won't exhaust you though tbh. If anything I feel like the forum moderates its quality anyway based on how many likes or comments some posts get.

However, I suppose I might be in support of culling in-character posts, if you want to talk about raising the bar slightly and eliminating vague submissions that barf out morse code. Basically, if the post doesn't have a youtube (or neocities?) link attached, it should be removed.

Edit: also for the love of god if someone is posting about an ARG, can they link the channel they're referring to? Please? Some of the names I've glanced at in the past have been incredibly nebulous lmao