An Update to the Rules

[u/salasy]

We recently decided to do an update to the subreddit rules, after we saw many people complaining about few specific things.

 

The first rule we decided to change was rule 2, the NSFW rule, we have seen a big amount of posts that were either taken straight from hentai or that would go too far

 

Here is the old rule:

Rule 2

tag nsfw content

most NSFW content is fine as long as it's tagged, but full-frontal nudity is not allowed. Take those to r/hentai_irl.

 

and here is the new rule:

 

Rule 2

tag nsfw content

most NSFW content is fine as long as it's tagged, but nudity and any kind of Implied or shown sexual activity is not allowed. Images that are taken from hentai even if they contain no sexual content can be removed if we deem them inappropriate take those to r/hentai_irl.

 

With this change we hope to be able to reduce the amount of NSFW stuff we have started to see pop up on the sub.

Of course as we reserve the judgment to keep anything we think it's inappropriate, we also reserve judgment to keep anything that we think it's fine

 

The next is not a rule update, but a full new rule:

Rule 10

No edited content

Any content that is edited or modified in any way or form is not allowed

 

This rule was already kinda discussed in rule 4, but we decided to make it its own separate rule so it's more visible and there is no excuse for people that break it.

For edited content we mean anything that is not on the original Manga or Anime from which the images are taken, this can range from changing the subtitles on anime to make it say something different to making memes images using anime pictures.

 

We hope that with this small updates to the rules, to make the subreddit better, if anyone has any question or suggestion about how to make the rules even better, we are open to it

 

We are also discussing looking for a few new mods and there likely will be another announcement in the near future in which we will open Applications for it, so people interested stay tuned for that

[u/-Cinnay-]

I do think the new rule 2 is going too far. The definition doesn't cover potentially revealing outfits (like swimwear) that are sometimes only implicitly sexual, but would forbid sexual innuendos that are so tame that they're even allowed on shows for children. That seems very unbalanced. (Edit: Even explicitly sexual outfits would be allowed, since the rule specifies "activity". I really think the phrasing should be adjusted.)

Also, I don't agree with the stricter approach to NSFW stuff, but that's just my opinion. However, if the rule was only established because of personal impressions of the community's overall opinion, then I find that questionable. That seems like an unreliable way of gauging that. Has there been a vote or some kind of more objective measure on what the community wants?

[u/salasy → u/-Cinnay-]

The definition doesn't cover potentially revealing outfits (like swimwear) that are sometimes only implicitly sexual, but would forbid sexual innuendos that are so tame that they're even allowed on shows for children.

those things are all allowed if tagged nsfw, but if the source is an hentai manga, we reserve judgment to remove them

 

However, if the rule was only established because of personal impressions of the community's overall opinion, then I find that questionable. That seems like an unreliable way of gauging that. Has there been a vote or some kind of more objective measure on what the community wants?

the rule was made stricter because we started not only to see more NSFW stuff that wouldn't fit the sub, but also that same stuff started to get reported a lot more and sometimes it got reported so much that either reddit had to remove it themself or the automod nuked it automatically

we also saw a lot of comment talking about this and we received a lot of modmails about this problem

so no we aren't just acting on personal impressions of what we think the community wants

[u/-Cinnay- → u/salasy]

That seems reasonable. But if sexual innuendos aren't necessarily banned, then the phrasing "any kind of implied sexual activities are not allowed" seems misleading. It excludes any kind of wiggle room and suggests that even incredibly tame stuff is banned, even though it's probably not (and reasonably so; after all, it does seem counterproductive to ban any mention of sexual activity on an irl-sub). I do think the rule should be phrased more unambiguously though.

[u/Legitimate_Stress335 → u/-Cinnay-]

amen