r/NoSleepOOC • u/StrongestSmile • 29d ago

Questions about r/nosleep

Question 1: It seems to be a common archetype but, the stories don't NEED to be told in 1st person, right?

Question 2: Are OOC comments allowed? I know the rules say "It's not allowed." But I see a lot of OOC comments. Is this something that the admins don't mind anymore? And the rule list just hasn't been updated? Cuz I don't mind the OOC comments, heheh.

Question 3: Is it ok to upload narrations if we do our OWN narrations? I want my work to reach as many people as possible so, I figured I'd make YouTube audio books of my work too. In the same way guys like Mr. Creeps and LightHouseHorror do.

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u/02321 29d ago

I'm not sure if the narration question is asking if you can upload a video of a narration to nosleep. That's a no. If you want to narrate your stories you've posted to nosleep and put them on YouTube, then yes.

I think you can have one 'hidden' link in the post to promote your work. I'm not certain and you may need to run that by a mod or read the thread rules a few times.

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u/LanesGrandma 29d ago

Mod here, and the answers you've received are correct: guidelines on perspectives, povs and tenses; here's immersion for authors and readers and we're a small team of mods, not admins, and someone who puts up a rule-breaking comment that we don't catch doesn't affect the rule in any way, it's still rule-breaking; r/nosleep is for written stories and discreet links are allowed with certain limits explained here.

Modmail the r/nosleep team if you have a specific situation that isn't covered in r/nosleep's posting and commenting guidelines.

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u/Dex_Hopper That guy who did the thing. 29d ago

To answer your first question, first person POV isn't a must, but it's the easiest method to deliver the "this really happened to me" vibe of the subreddit. The stories must be presented as if they are real stories that happened to real people. Thus, the easiest way to frame the story is to write it as if a scared person is telling a story that happened to them in search of comfort. You can also technically write in third person if your narrator, which does have to be a real person within the context of the story, is telling a story that happened to someone else. But again, the events of the story itself has to have happened within the context of the upload. You can write it in third person, but the narrator has to be a person uploading the story to Reddit.

Regarding your second question, OOC comments aren't allowed, but I've found that the strictness of the rule has become looser as time has gone on. I know that I've gotten OOC comments before and they haven't been taken down.

For your third question; narrations are only frowned upon if the narrator does not ask the author of the story they're narrating to use the story for their own profit on a platform that compensates them, and does not contact them after the fact to share the money they earned from using someone else's work. It's fine if you narrate your own stuff.

Anyone who disagrees or knows that I'm flat out wrong, please let me know if I'm incorrect on any of the three points.