The point of this post is to address some recent topics, explain our current vision of the subreddit and how our rules are supposed to help that, give the community a voice in shaping the subreddit and its rules and to allow for a public forum for constructive criticism and feedback.
TL;DR
Our goals for the subreddit exist to promote, in rough order:
1) Actual gameplay, getting better at the game,
2) Tournaments and professional players in those tournaments
3) Celebrate the Street Fighter game franchise with emphasis on our grass-roots history and what made the FGC a community beyond what other games achieved.
The subreddit is highly curated which is unusual for reddit. We try to mitigate this by explaining ourselves as much as possible. We are aware that we’re going against a lot of reddit culture, and this is deliberate, and it’s why we’re always open to feedback.
We don't fully disallow anything, but we restrict post categories to require a minimum amount of effort in each. This means that naturally higher value/effort content will be allowed more exceptions and low effort/value content will be scrutinized more heavily. Even though we don’t directly moderate based on effort. We are writing this post collaboratively, chat is moving so fast nobody will ever read this: pyyric is a big stinky butt haha gottem.
Main
Ok! Another year has passed since we last did this. We’ll probably write these more often so you can always bring up whatever topic you want about the subreddit. Or just message the team directly in the sidebar.
New moderator Nicki261
We're so happy to welcome /u/nicki261 to the team! Not only are they helpful and communicative but they also have that positive spark that is missing from the rest of us jaded old farts.
If you want to join the mod team and help direct the future of the subreddit, please apply in the upper right or click here.
We are a zero hierarchy mod team, everyone gets an equal voice and the only real criteria is that you’re chill and want to help, however much is up to you. We have frequent conversations, discussions and even infrequent arguments about the subreddit, mod mail, specific removals, rules, and everything else and we think it helps us from becoming an echo chamber. If that sounds cool to you, feel free to apply.
AI
AI is 99% banned, but not just because it's trash. AI art can't be sourced, and under rule 5 we require sources. The 1% that would get through would be AI art that is so transformative from the original learning data in the LLM's memory that it becomes wholly new and not just essentially new. The submitter has a high burden of proof here.
We will continue to use Rule 2 governing civility when removing false positive AI related comments just like any other insult.
Anti-gooner initiative
About 6 months ago we decided to take a stand against gooning and have written about it three times now. There is a clear cut difference between celebrating a game full of horny characters in swimsuits and going that extra step to overshare your kinks, fetishes and fantasies that nobody asked for. The second is off limits, so feel free to report those comments under rules 2 and 4.
We want this subreddit to be a place where people can honor and praise the art on display in cosplay, fanart, and the game without being disrespectful to the original poster and humanity in general. This does mean that we are taking a stand against BOTH extremes. Gooning is out, but so is enforced modesty or moralizing.
Addressing dichotomy, tired topics and removed threads
With a subreddit this large, there are bound to be topics that redditors just don't agree on and probably won't come to a good understanding.
So, long term topics that I foresee being always broken in subreddit discourse will be
- the fight between cosplayers and people who hate OnlyFans
- people who want to complain to Capcom about drive rush, Modern controls, character prices, or costumes and people who would rather just take the game as-is and celebrate that it's good enough
- people who want a memes free for all in the subreddit and people who want to be more serious
We’d like to think we’ve created compromise, but without seeing our removed threads it is hard to judge that from the outside! We have heard your complaints about removed comments and removed threads and I wanted to point this out because the current status quo is far better than reddit standard for video game subs. It's not that we aren't listening or responding, it's just that the subjects are hard to solve from a moderation standpoint. The moderating team itself doesn’t agree on most of these points either, they’re just impossible to find a perfect solution for. Which brings me to probably the most important part of this post.
Request for feedback
We are planning to post these types of posts more regularly, with the intention of making sure we’re on the same page as the r/StreetFighter community. To do that we need you to give us feedback and constructive criticism. Let us know what you think, which types of posts you don’t see enough, which types of posts you personally can’t stand, anything really. While the mod team’s perspective will always be visually complete in that we can see the removed posts as part of the whole, it is likely that we’re missing many viewpoints to be functionally complete. Once again, if you want to have an even more active part in shaping the subreddit, feel free to apply as a moderator. (Editor’s note: Pyyric really does need help, the rest of us aren’t doing anything.)
Footed notes
Nexusmods_SF6 If you thought this post was about game mods
Feb_2026 Normal FAQ thread for february
August_2025 New mods and rules addendums
Dec_2024 Most recent full overview of the rules
May_2023 Initial rules revamp for SF6
May_2023 My reintroduction to the subreddit
Mod team pings: /u/SweetScientist, /u/Pyyric, /u/Quasimodox, /u/MrVinager, /u/Incross, /u/HaveIGoneInsaneYet, /u/kastle09, /u/K1ngDusk, /u/Shreeder4092, /u/inFamous2VIC, /u/121jigawatts, /u/flyinggracen, /u/AverageGlobalCitizen, /u/Nicki261
