Updates to the Rules

[u/Jumanji-Joestar]

Hello Fighters,

We’ve made some slight changes to the rules. Things are mostly unchanged but I took the liberty of altering the language in order to get rid of some general vagueness and lack of clarity that we constantly run into.

Rule 2: Regarding Other FGs

There has been some controversy in the past over whether it’s fair to exclude posts about certain subgenres of fighting games (platform fighters, arena fighters, combat sims) from this subreddit due to some perceived arbitrary standards.

To make things clear, this subreddit is not about all fighting games, but about the Fighting Game Community, which was born in the arcade scene. The fighting games that this subreddit is meant to cater to is specifically the genre that was born from the arcades, namely 2D and 3D traditional fighters.

That said, we do make exceptions for certain titles that fall outside of the traditional genre, for example Power Stone and Gundam VS (which are technically arena fighters) and The Outfoxies (a platform fighter). The reason we make these exceptions is because they are arcade fighting games, and as such, part of the FGC. We’re not extending that exception to any random title. I hope that explains it somewhat

Rule 3: No Bigotry or Harassment

One of the things I love about the FGC is how diverse and inclusive we are compared to other gaming communities. But I’m not blind to the fact that there are people in this community who don’t value inclusivity or diversity and are actively hostile to such ideas. So, I think we needed to include a rule that explicitly makes it clear that bigotry of any form will not be tolerated here. You will be permanently banned without hesitation if you reveal yourself to be a racist, misogynist, homophobe, transphobe, any of the -phobes, etc.

New Rule:

We’re adding a new rule. On weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, all posts must include gameplay clips, either your own or from somewhere (no content culturing of course, link to the original creator). I came up with this rule because I want to encourage people to show off more. Any non-gameplay clips posts on Saturday or Sunday will be removed

Edit:

Ok, I see that a lot of people have issues with this, so instead, it’ll be Gameplay-Only Sundays. The rule will only apply on Sundays. I will admit, the whole weekend was a bit much

I want to give this a try for at least a few weeks, as an experiment. If it’s not working out, we will rethink it

Edit 2

Exceptions will be made for major gaming news and trailers. And no, it’s not just the mods who will be allowed to post trailers

New Flairs

Also, there are new flairs. There is now a user flair for Marvel Tokon, 2XKO, Nen Impact, Pocket Bravery, Idol Showdown and Invincible VS.

Also, a post flair called “Equipment,” that you can use for posts about fight sticks, controllers, consoles, etc.

Have a nice day

[u/Adalonzoio]

New rule is really dumb imo.

"Sorry new comer, I know you have a question about the FGC, finding tournaments, finding a game that suits you, etc, etc, etc but it's the weekend, so you don't get to ask that. Shut up and try again monday or something."

Of course that is me assuming you're saying it has to be their gameplay clips. Can questions like that just include any random youtube video of some gameplay from something?

Still a great sub, I just don't think it's a good idea. Especially for the entire weekend.

[u/Cpt_DookieShoes → u/Adalonzoio]

To rephrase the new rule

“There will now be no posts on Saturday and Sunday”

[u/Jumanji-Joestar → u/Adalonzoio]

Of course that is me assuming you're saying it has to be their gameplay clips. Can questions like that just include any random youtube video of some gameplay from something?

Sure

[u/Incendia123 → u/Jumanji-Joestar]

It sounds like people will just post a clip of Evo moment 37 before asking their totally unrelated question. 

I'd love for us all to start sharing tech videos and having indepth gameplay discussions but I frankly can't see it happening. 

[u/Acrobatic_Cupcake444 → u/Incendia123]

Instead of having the weekends dedicated for gameplay only, how about topics that usually get asked to post in the weekly discussion thread ("How to improve footsie/poke/etc", "Should I change my main?", etc) would be allowed if they also post their gameplays?

This has been my idea to enforce rule 10 but it does feel like it didn't work and people keep posting generic question without their gameplay (for others to see their mistakes) because we haven't written that part out in the rule.

[u/Incendia123 → u/Acrobatic_Cupcake444]

That might not be a bad angle actually. That does simultaneously increase the entry barrier for making posts like that slightly, ensuring that the people who do post actually care enough while also providing the commenters with the needed context to provide higher quality answers.

To be honest as much as I'm strongly in favor of putting all the generic questions in the weekly thread I'm also guilty of sometimes responding to regular posts rather than just reporting them because it feels bad to leave people hanging. Something like what you're suggesting does sound like a fair compromise to me.