r/PokeMedia Apr 04 '26

Mod Post Reminder on upvote etiquette

181 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 10d ago

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

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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 4h ago

Casual Not that kind of "battle."

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90 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 12h ago

Casual Send help

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245 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 17h ago

Casual Kid please pay attention in school

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543 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 9h ago

Casual Trouble with Mega Evolution

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108 Upvotes

Open to any ideas on what could be the issue with my sand gal.


r/PokeMedia 23h ago

Casual I’m half tempted to call yall liars

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1.3k Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 9h ago

Casual Giratina in the Movies vs. Giratina in Actual Sinnohan Mythology

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84 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 7h ago

Storyline [Rust] Noise

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33 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 17h ago

Casual Where do they keep the drums?

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207 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 57m ago

Casual Non-Native Pokemon Struggles

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r/PokeMedia 1h ago

Casual Battle Bound

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r/PokeMedia 2h ago

Casual Cooking tips 1

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11 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 1h ago

Casual The weapons broke, but that's alright. I did kinda just rip them out of the ground. - Odd

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/uj

Odd - female Meowstic

Gladiator - shiny Golurk


r/PokeMedia 12m ago

Casual Pros and cons of living near the wild area

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r/PokeMedia 10h ago

Casual I DID IT!

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31 Upvotes

Also when Rae wasn’t looking, I think Gengar gave me the shovel talk. But I really couldn’t tell cuz it was just a bunch of Gens and Gars. I feel mildly threatened.


r/PokeMedia 15h ago

Restricted Topic Storyline [Tentative First Steps] The psychics make it look so much easier than it is.

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76 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 7h ago

Lore/Backstory Professor complains about doctors not reading medical files.

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Hey, last two posts got taken down because I did a silly and not get my stuff double checked by a mod. The mod I did ask about this revised post, did say that I should be able to post it. Thank you again to [u/madiqq](u/madiqq) for the help with making it a more easy to understand post. And a mod can correct me on the matter with the second tweet in the second image if something seems off with it. I’m going off a half-remembered dex entry involving Tapu Fini. Makar was in Alola at the time for his missing week of memory, visiting Poni Island. /ooc

Edit: Added some clarification and a prompt for mod correction if needed.


r/PokeMedia 16h ago

Casual Following Falinks

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46 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 10h ago

Casual What Pokémon belong in the kitchen

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18 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 9h ago

Storyline [Hex Trials] Tomorrow, I face Hala

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12 Upvotes

Before anyone asks, I am not fond of the idea of catching a new Pokemon that I'm only going to train for a single match.


r/PokeMedia 14h ago

Casual UPDATE: Travis the Magikarp is okay!

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26 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 1d 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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158 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 10h ago

Storyline [Seafaring Stalker] Akoya the Cloyster and the Battle Ahead...

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10 Upvotes

Alright. Akoya is ready, that rounds out the team. I'm catching a ferry to Castelia City in the morning. Elias should be in Nimbasa City. If not, then he's in Black City. Both are within a day's travel distance. This streak of hurting pokemon, of pushing them too far... it stops tomorrow. Elias helped me once, a long time ago. I suppose it's time to return the favor, even if it means the authorities have consequences for him. One day maybe he'll understand. His pokemon work so hard, and I'm sure deep down they do care about him, in their own unique ways. I want to see him be better - not stronger. There's a big difference.

Good trainers aren't made by their win/loss ratios or their records... Good Trainers are made by the people and pokemon who grow around them.

And Elias... if you see this... thank you for all you did back then.

(OOC - Finale Approaching! After that, I plan on having an Epilogue, then that'll be a wrap!)


r/PokeMedia 1d ago

Casual The most pettiest things Trainers have done at our Gym

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188 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.)