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Hi all!

Going into Season 8, one thing we want to do as a modteam that relates to the subreddit is get some condensed feedback on our subreddit rules. The ominous 1-through-12 oft quoted when removing a post. As a quick reminder, here they are below, and in link form:

  1. Site-Wide Rules and Reddiquette;We require all users to follow the site-wide content policy and the Reddiquette. Please be nice to each other. Try to refrain from excessive profanity. Clickbait or non-descriptive titles may lead to the post being removed. Don't repost deleted content without Mod permission. Please note we are a PG-13 subreddit, submissions that are NSFW are not allowed.
  2. No Witchhunting;Posting witchhunts against players, community figures or employees is not allowed. Criticising public figures in a civil manner is allowed but comments might be locked depending on how the comments go. Due to concerns about witchhunting we require users to censor all usernames in posts with a negative context.
  3. No Personal Problems;By this we mean r/Smite is not your personal blog, soapbox or helpdesk. The following types of posts may be removed: Rants or complaints about a few matches, matchmaking or players; Directing the post to Hi-Rez/an organisation/individual. Constructive criticism is allowed but simple complaint posts that don’t go into detail and don’t encourage discussion may be removed.
  4. Bugs and technical errors;Please direct your bug reports to the Official Smite Discord, and your account-related issues to Hi-rez Support. The following posts are not allowed on the subreddit: screenshots of errors, bugs or glitches; asking about hardware; account-related issues; technical issues or bugs; status posts about the servers; posts about an exploit or hack you've found.
  5. Be relevant to Smite;This is a subreddit for discussion about the video game Smite - tangentially related content may be removed. The doings/administration of individuals on their private Twitch channels. What pros and Hi-Rez employees get up to outside of Smite. Other Hi-Rez games. Artistic representations of characters that appear in the game (Statues, Carvings, Paintings, Tattoos etc.) are not necessarily related to Smite as a game.
  6. Art Submissions and God Concepts;God concepts must include a full God kit. This includes God name, class, damage type, and all ability names and details. Skin concepts must include artwork, it may not be just a text description of a skin idea. You may NOT find an image of something you like and share it as a skin concept. You MUST give credit to the artist in the title of the post. (watermarks are sufficient for artists). If you wish to become a verified artist, please send a modmail with a link to your art page.
  7. No Excessive Self-Promotion;As well as being against Reddit's own 10:1 guidelines, we want to encourage diverse content from a variety of users. Every user may only promote something every 72 hours AND a content source may only be promoted once every 72 hours. Tournament announcements and any official Hi-Rez content are exempt from this. Advertising of a discord other than ours or the Official Smite discord is not allowed. All promoted content should be Smite related (See Rule 5).
  8. Low Effort Posts;All posts on the subreddit need to adhere to a certain standard of quality and should encourage discussion. Examples for low effort posts include reposts of recently posted content, looking for group/clan/scrims posts, posts with non-descriptive or vague titles, god cards showing high mastery levels or usernames,.
  9. Memes/sh*tposts;Memes and one-liners are not allowed on r/Smite (you may post these on r/gank). This rule will be excluded on Memedays. A post will be stickied to the top of r/Smite allowing memes. Posts will remain up after the sticky is removed, but any new memes will be removed.
  10. No Begging/Buying/Selling;Do not create posts or comments to beg, sell or buy content. This includes cosmetics, gems, god packs, physical goods or other Smite content that can be purchased (official or fan-made). If you would like to trade content you can do so at r/SmiteTrades. We allow giveaways and promotions of Smite-related free content, as long as an entry does not require any personal information or payment and does not net a profit for the user. Referrals and referral apps (such as gleam.io) are not allowed.
  11. No Spoilers;Any clips/discussions about esports events should remain spoiler-free in the title of the post and should be marked as a spoiler. Datamining should not contain spoilers in the title of the post and should be marked as a spoiler.
  12. Moderator's discretion and how you can help us;The Moderators of this community reserve the right to remove any post or comment that they deem unfit for this community. If you think one of your posts was wrongly removed, you can contact us here. If you see a post or comment that breaks our rules or that you deem unfit for this community, please use the report function to alert the Moderators. This makes our job much easier! :)

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Whoo. That was a long one. You might notice that the rules there are slightly different to the rules in our sidebar or linked, and that's because I've rewritten them slightly to fit the paragraph format of the post, as well as edited some obvious omissions (like the Official Discord) that have come about since the last rule rewrite a while back.

Now, we want your feedback on these rules; in the comments of this post, which will be stickied for several days at minimum, we will have a top-level comment (a comment that starts a new thread) made by a mod highlighting a single rule. All feedback relating to that rule should be commented under that top-level comment, to order the feedback and allow us to work through it and make changes more easily. There will also be a miscellaneous comment for general feedback on anything else. Please don't create any new top-level comments. We'd rather you keep it rule-related, but anything goes really, and we'll try and respond as best we can. In previous threads it's been highlighted to us that we tend to respond to criticism of us on a surface level, but it tails off pretty quickly - I'm determined to make sure that doesn't happen with this post. Modmail is also a great place to get in touch, if you want a more personal, lengthy discussion.

We'll be following up this post in due course with potential rule updates as part of this feedback, as well as other mod-related stuff like new mod applications, changes to how we use megathreads, more usage of our S.T.A.R. bot, events and more that we haven't quite fleshed out just yet.

On behalf of all the /r/Smite modteam, thanks for taking the time to read this. I hope we get a good chunk of constructive feedback.

/u/EmBrAcE-DeAtH

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about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Rule 1

Site-Wide Rules and Reddiquette


We require all users to follow the site-wide content policy and the Reddiquette. Please be nice to each other. Try to refrain from excessive profanity. Clickbait or non-descriptive titles may lead to the post being removed. Don't repost deleted content without Mod permission. Please note we are a PG-13 subreddit, submissions that are NSFW are not allowed.

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Rule 2

No Witchhunting


Posting witchhunts against players, community figures, or employees is not allowed. Criticizing public figures in a civil manner is allowed but comments might be locked depending on how the comments go. Due to concerns about witchhunting we require users to censor all usernames in posts with a negative context.

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Rule 3

No Personal Problems


By this we mean r/Smite is not your personal blog, soapbox or helpdesk. The following types of posts may be removed: Rants or complaints about a few matches, matchmaking or players; Directing the post to Hi-Rez/an organization/individual. Constructive criticism is allowed but simple complaint posts that don’t go into detail and don’t encourage discussion may be removed.

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Rule 4

Bugs and technical errors


Please direct your bug reports to the Official Smite Discord, and your account-related issues to Hi-rez Support. The following posts are not allowed on the subreddit: screenshots of errors, bugs or glitches; asking about hardware; account-related issues; technical issues or bugs; status posts about the servers; posts about an exploit or hack you've found.

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Rule 5

Be relevant to Smite


This is a subreddit for discussion about the video game Smite - tangentially related content may be removed. The doings/administration of individuals on their private Twitch channels. What pros and Hi-Rez employees get up to outside of Smite. Other Hi-Rez games. Artistic representations of characters that appear in the game (Statues, Carvings, Paintings, Tattoos etc.) are not necessarily related to Smite as a game.

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Rule 6

Art Submissions and God Concepts


God concepts must include a full God kit. This includes God name, class, damage type, and all ability names and details. Skin concepts must include artwork, it may not be just a text description of a skin idea. You may NOT find an image of something you like and share it as a skin concept. You MUST give credit to the artist in the title of the post. (watermarks are sufficient for artists). If you wish to become a verified artist, please send a modmail with a link to your art page.

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Rule 7

No Excessive Self-Promotion


As well as being against Reddit's own 10:1 guidelines, we want to encourage diverse content from a variety of users. Every user may only promote something every 72 hours AND a content source may only be promoted once every 72 hours. Tournament announcements and any official Hi-Rez content are exempt from this. Advertising of a discord other than ours or the Official Smite discord is not allowed. All promoted content should be Smite related (See Rule 5).

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Rule 8

Low Effort Posts


All posts on the subreddit need to adhere to a certain standard of quality and should encourage discussion. Examples for low effort posts include reposts of recently posted content, looking for group/clan/scrims posts, posts with non-descriptive or vague titles, god cards showing high mastery levels or usernames.

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Rule 9

Memes/sh*tposts


Memes and one-liners are not allowed on r/Smite (you may post these on r/gank). This rule will be excluded on Memedays. A post will be stickied to the top of r/Smite allowing memes. Posts will remain up after the sticky is removed, but any new memes will be removed.


about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Rule 10

No Begging/Buying/Selling


Do not create posts or comments to beg, sell or buy content. This includes cosmetics, gems, god packs, physical goods or other Smite content that can be purchased (official or fan-made). If you would like to trade content you can do so at r/SmiteTrades. We allow giveaways and promotions of Smite-related free content, as long as an entry does not require any personal information or payment and does not net a profit for the user. Referrals and referral apps (such as gleam.io) are not allowed.

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Rule 11

No Spoilers


Any clips/discussions about esports events should remain spoiler-free in the title of the post and should be marked as a spoiler. Datamining should not contain spoilers in the title of the post and should be marked as a spoiler.

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Rule 12

Moderator's discretion and how you can help us


The Moderators of this community reserve the right to remove any post or comment that they deem unfit for this community. If you think one of your posts was wrongly removed, you can contact us here. If you see a post or comment that breaks our rules or that you deem unfit for this community, please use the report function to alert the Moderators. This makes our job much easier! :)

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link
Other

Unrelated suggestions or suggestions about adding new rules can go here

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link

Originally posted by NicNac_PattyMac

I had a video taken down of a lucky shot I did with Kuk under this rule.

What’s the line here?

I was frankly baffled why it was taken down.

I'm sorry, I'm going through your post history and can't seem to find it. Did you remove it as well after we did, that would explain why it wouldn't show up for me? Or if you still have a link to the post, so I can check out why it was taken down.

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link

Originally posted by NicNac_PattyMac

The video seems fine, but do you maybe have the post you published? If you haven't deleted it, I can see who removed it and why :)

about 3 years ago - /u/Draco9990 - Direct link

Originally posted by NicNac_PattyMac

https://www.reddit.com/r/Smite/comments/kin09z/i_dont_need_to_see_where_fools_are_running/

It was castle and I know he’s a cool guy so I wasn’t upset. Just confused.

Maybe the title?

I just checked and it seems like probably a mistake, you don't have a video in your post history that would break rule 7 with that video.

In the future, if you're confused, feel free to shoot us a message in modmail as mistakes do happen and we re-approve the post if it happens :)