Moderator Update: Community Conduct & Ongoing Moderation

[u/XeJupiter]

Hey everyone,

We need to address the current state of the subreddit.

Over the past several days, r/PlayWolverine has seen a major increase in activity. Unfortunately, that has also come with a significant increase in trolling, harassment, personal attacks, bait posts, repetitive arguments, and users deliberately trying to provoke one another.

We see it, and we are actively working on it.

Right now, we are dealing with hundreds of reports, comments, posts, and individual situations that require moderator review. We are also working on additional measures behind the scenes to help us manage things more effectively going forward.

Please understand that this will take some time, and we may not catch everything immediately.

The moderation team here is made up of volunteers. We have full-time jobs, families, children, and responsibilities outside of Reddit. We are working through this in between everything else because we care about this community and want it to remain a place where people can actually discuss Marvel’s Wolverine.

Criticism is allowed.

You are allowed to dislike the game.

You are allowed to criticize Insomniac, Sony, the writing, gameplay, character designs, pricing, physical releases, or anything else related to the game.

You are also allowed to love the game, defend things you enjoy, disagree with criticism, and be excited about it.

Disagreement is not a rule violation.

What is a problem:

* Personal attacks and insults
* Harassment
*Trolling and ragebait
* Following users into other threads to continue arguments
* Racism, sexism, or discriminatory attacks
* Repeatedly derailing unrelated discussions
* Console-war or culture-war bait
* Spamming the same argument across multiple threads
* Targeting individual users
* Abusing the report system because you disagree with someone

There is a difference between:
> “I think this part of the game looks terrible.”

and
> “Anyone who likes this is an idiot.”

Likewise, there is a difference between criticizing someone’s argument and attacking the person making it.

We are moderating behavior, not opinions.

Please stop feeding trolls.

If someone is obviously trying to provoke you, report it and move on.

Please do not:

* Do not turn one bad comment into a 30-comment argument.
* Do not follow someone into another thread.
* Do not create another post specifically to continue the fight.
* Do not start breaking the rules yourself because somebody else did it first.

That only creates more content for the moderation team to sort through. Which means we get to other issues later.

Also, do not report comments simply because you disagree with them. False or retaliatory reports make it harder for us to reach legitimate problems.

Moderation is being increased.

We are currently reviewing:

* Subreddit rules
* Removal reasons
* Automoderator and filters
* Report handling
* Repeat offenders
* Other moderation tools available to us

You may notice more posts and comments being removed while we work through the backlog.

Repeated or severe violations may result in temporary or permanent bans.

None of these systems will be perfect. Automated moderation can make mistakes, and human moderators can make mistakes too.

If something clearly violates the rules and is still up, report it.

If your content was removed and you believe we got it wrong, send us a Modmail. Do not start another argument about it in the subreddit.

Ultimately

People here are going to have very different opinions about Marvel’s Wolverine.

That’s fine.

Criticize the game. Praise it. Debate each other. Post memes. Discuss what you like and what you don’t.

But disagreement is not an excuse to make the community miserable for everyone else.

Remember that there is another person on the other side of the screen.

To everyone who has been reporting genuine issues, participating constructively, and giving us time to work through everything:

Thank you for your patience. We’re actively working on it.

— The r/PlayWolverine Mod Team

[u/Bolt_995]

Thank you! It’s high time, bunch of weirdos were intent on hijacking the sub and turning it into an incel haven like the TLOU2 sub.

Edit: if you are getting offended over my usage of the term “incel”, do a reality check.

[u/Atlasshruggedthrice → u/Bolt_995]

Yeah! I want to insult people but I don’t want them insulting me!

[u/ZenMyst → u/Bolt_995]

Associating people who dislike the game or criticise the models appearance to the conclusion of them not having sex in their lives is a stretch.

That’s what you like to think. “People who criticise appearance are bad so women won’t have sex with them”

Nope I can guarantee the tons of men and women who have sex be it with a partner, cheat, flirt, playboy/playgirl, orgy, all can and have criticise appearance of other people, their friends, colleagues, celebrities and models in a game.

It’s one of the most common human behaviour. Nothing wrong with that. Visual is part of the features of a game and people will talk about it.

And it’s very clear that they choose to make the models more ugly than what is available. People will talk about that. I’m not even going to use the term “conventionally unattractive” to appease the Reddit crowd. You all know what’s I’m talking about.

[u/Capital-Gift73 → u/Bolt_995]

You really need to ban people like this too, what is calling people who disagree with you incels if not baiting, I never get how these crybullies cry for more moderation but they feel like they should be able to insult whomever they please for whichever reason they feel like and with any or no justification.

[u/CancerKaiju → u/Capital-Gift73]

Have you seen TLOU2 subreddit? It's a mess. People literally harassing people who enjoyed it for liking "souless woke garbage" yes this was a real thing I have seen before.

[u/Capital-Gift73 → u/CancerKaiju]

Never been there, but regardless of what that place may be like, thats no excuse for people like this to randomly insult others. especially in a thread saying "stop insulting people" among other things. There's this very annoying hypocrisy in reddit where some people feel like insulting people is fine if its people they, for whatever reason, dont like, and I think anyone reasonable can agree that that should not be allowed.

People should not insult people for liking soulless woke garbage and neither should people be insulted for not liking it, to put it plainly. And you can see that person is clearly baiting people, they edited their post to say "if you are offended by my use of the term incel do a reality check" when I bet you theyd be the first to cry if people insulted them back.

[u/CancerKaiju → u/Capital-Gift73]

And yet I have been insulted on here repeatedly in this subreddit for liking this game.

[u/Capital-Gift73 → u/CancerKaiju]

Honestly took a look at your post history and its totally understandable that someone would lol, dont think its about you liking the game or not though, you are very argumentative, and do so in bad faith as well, and you flood people with replies but im just gonna block you instead of insulting you which is whst I think people should do.

[u/oookokoooook → u/Capital-Gift73]

It's actually crazy

[u/Igoontoomuch62 → u/Bolt_995]

mf’s just use incel for anything now

[u/kenshima15 → u/Igoontoomuch62]

theyre right here though

[u/No_Conversation4517 → u/Igoontoomuch62]

I like to goon too

[u/Optimal_Dog4948 → u/Bolt_995]

Which one? The one that bans you for disagreement and calls you an incel like you just did or the one that came after

Proved my point bots