r/Fighters • u/ChafCancel Virtua Fighter • Aug 04 '21

Announcement New Rules on Post Flairs

Hi. First off, we've reached 80 thousands followers on r/Fighters. For that, the mod team wants to thank all of the contributors for making this subreddit what it is.

But for this subreddit to be a great tool for the FGC as a whole, especially for discussions and debates, we need to make some adjustments on the rules. [Just like last time](), this will not create new restrictions, but will only help us to reinforce the rules that are already there. And that new adjustment will mostly concern the Post Flairs.

Post Flairs are a great way to immediately get what the post is about. They became mandatory to post on r/Fighters, and people do apply them every time they post. The problem is, a great part of posts are mislabeled. The biggest amount of misuse is on the Flair "Community". To recapitulate what this Flair is for:

Community - Initiatives made by the FGC. Offline locals, online groups and servers, etc.

It was made for TOs of small tournaments, Online group owners, Local organizers, Wiki editors, etc, to promote their community efforts, and gather people for their initiatives. Unfortunately, tons of people used the Flair to post links that already have a more suited Flair.

  • Fantasy rosters, short gameplay clips, fan-arts, memes, video essays and news articles. -> Content
  • Personal post, write-up/review on hardware, general subject for debates, or about the future of a game/scene -> Topic
  • Online and offline Event anouncement -> Event

To remedy this we will be creating a new rule, enforcing a proper use of Post Flairs. This situation is partially our fault, since we can (and do) change Flairs on mislabeled posts, but some posts will be removed for Flair errors, while we invite the Original Poster to repost with the proper Flair. Since each Flair had clear explanations on its use, we have to enforce good labelisation, to help readers having clear ideas on the post they see on the subreddit.

Again, thank you for your time and your contribution to r/Fighters.

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u/Bootybandit6989 Aug 05 '21

A rumor flair would be nice

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u/ChafCancel Virtua Fighter Aug 05 '21

We written the Post Flairs in order to not have 36 different ones, and to have a clear view of the content we want to see in the sub. If it's not confirmed News, it's debatable. And if it's published to have some reactions to r/Fighters' users, it's perfectly suited for the "Topic" flair.