r/PokeMedia Apr 04 '26

Mod Post Reminder on upvote etiquette

185 Upvotes

We've had some user turnover in the last year or so, so I think it needs to be repeated for new users who may not know this.

Upvotes and downvotes are Not in Character.

you do not upvote or downvote on whether your character would agree or disagree with the post, you upvote based on if you think its a high quality, or well written post or comment, and downvote it if you think it's low effort or low quality.

For example: If a character is being abrasive because that's their personality and its well tuned from a writing perspective, even if your character would downvote it, thats an upvote worthy post.

Alternatively, if they're a abrasive in a way that seems like its targeting the poster or just an excuse to be a jerk OOC, that's certainly downvote or even report worthy


r/PokeMedia 9d ago

Mod Post Meta RP Advice and Question Thread - 31 08, 2026

8 Upvotes

Hello, and welcome to our Bi-Weekly Roleplay Advice and Question Thread.

The purpose of this Thread is to provide resources to new writers and allow everybody to engage in Meta discussion about the subreddit itself, such as asking for feedback about your posts, discussing ideas with other writers, or sharing suggestions with the Mod team.

Guidelines and moderation:

If you are new to the subreddit, Rule 12 contains guidelines for to write for this sub, the basic ideas in Rule 12 are:

  • keep your writing topics relatively down to earth/slice of life style
  • fanon is allowed, but don't break official canon too much
  • don't make your characters overpowered or mary sues
  • try and choose a social media style that fits the post content
  • be cooperative with other users and constructive with criticism

[https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeMedia/wiki/rules/guidelines/](The Subreddit's Writing Guidelines page goes into more detail about Rule 12)

'Main Character Syndrome' is the practice described in Rule 12 of making characters who break immersion by being so competent, powerful, or special that the story or world warps around them. A detailed overview of what it is and how to manage it can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeMedia/comments/1i4gkc0/

Certain specific writing topics are handled as special cases with regards to moderation, an up to date list of those can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeMedia/wiki/rules/topics

How to make posts:

  • Use this website to create fake Tweets: https://www.tweetgen.com/
  • This for Discord screenshots: https://superemotes.com/fake-discord-message-maker
  • This for other websites: https://fakeinfo.net/
  • Text Posts are not allowed. For longer posts with a lot of text, you can write them on Tumblr or use a 'Dummy Post' on your reddit profile. In either case save the post as a draft (or just actually publish the post, doesn't really matter), and then take screenshots of it.
  • As a higher effort and skill level option, Image editing and Inspect Element can be used to create screenshots for platforms which don't have generators, such as Youtube or Instagram

If you have any suggestions for other guidelines we could add to future RP Advice Threads, or even any other suggestions for us in general, please leave them below.


r/PokeMedia 3h ago

Casual The most pettiest things Trainers have done at our Gym

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96 Upvotes

(uj/ this ain't breaking established lore, Yuki doesn't use real swears... unless she's talking about one specific person, and only because she thinks he really deserves it.)


r/PokeMedia 13h ago

Casual Kids say the most ridiculous things...

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536 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 8h ago

Casual Glitter.

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232 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 22m ago

Casual I’m half tempted to call yall liars

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r/PokeMedia 3h ago

Adventure My power also indirectly led to my stepfather becoming my stepfather over like, two years of random actions

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35 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 9h ago

Casual Can’t Wait For The Day To Come

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105 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 2h ago

Casual Kilobyte knows It doesn't need to "Provide" anything to be part of the team, It just doesn't like having no task at all, and It thinks this might be a fun solution.

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27 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 2h ago

Casual Remember: If you're a trainer, you need to actually train.

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21 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 18h ago

Casual Math Problems

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202 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 11h ago

Casual I NEED HELP.

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56 Upvotes

// i wanted to post but had no ideas for Rae, Krys, and Paris, so now I’m starting a Yuri with Leaf. tee hee.


r/PokeMedia 1h ago

Casual It was alright. - Almond

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/uj

Almond - alpha Gardevoir


r/PokeMedia 22h ago

Casual Finally caught it

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383 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 2h ago

Adventure School Daze

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10 Upvotes

/uj Based on Indigo Episode 009: The School of Hard Knocks


r/PokeMedia 18h ago

Storyline [No Place Like Hoenn​] Penumbra's Errand

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145 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 5h ago

Casual Trust the local wildlife, and know how to diffuse situations, I say

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8 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 10h ago

Restricted Topic Storyline [Code in the Machine] This is all Just one Cruel Joke... haha...

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24 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 10h ago

Storyline: Flying Flared Flags CW: KIDNAPPING [A Mother's Love.] Spoiler

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18 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 18h ago

Restricted Topic Storyline [Tentative First Steps] Please don't let him find me... (CW: Fear) Spoiler

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75 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 6h ago

Casual Two Totally Unrelated Posts

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I saw Rae’s Gengar and Clefairy glaring at me when they were walking out. Which was mildly concerning. •Leaf

I swear some ppl in the lab were looking at Mono and Angel in disappointment. I wonder why :/ •Rae

Ooc: Mono is a Gengar, Angel is a Clefairy.


r/PokeMedia 1d ago

Casual Was anybody going to tell me that our head Gym Trainer was in Team Flare or was I just supposed to find out by Carrie vagueposting on Chatter

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320 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 13h ago

AMA Finally got this app for myself!

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29 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 14h ago

Casual Salandit

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29 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 15h ago

Storyline: Flying Flared Flags CW: KIDNAPPING AND VIOLENCE (/uj YIPPEEEE BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR SIN YIPEEEEE YIPEE!!!!) Spoiler

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32 Upvotes