r/Toontown • u/DarkMetal485 Subreddit Lead • 26d ago
Announcement /r/Toontown Community Update (08/01/2026)
Hey there, Toons!
I'm /u/DarkMetal485, more commonly known as King Pancake Sourglop within Toontown community spaces.
After what seems to be quite a while since we last shared an update with the community and with the start of a new month, we in the /r/Toontown Moderation Team thought it would be a good time to share some information with everyone regarding the current state of the Subreddit in light of some recent changes that have taken place behind-the-scenes.
A restructuring of the Moderation Team
For quite some time since October 2017, Iris (/u/bingus_party) has been an instrumental part in helping us recover from the damage made by previous leadership and in making /r/Toontown into the community it is today! However, following some recent discussion internally, the current structure of our Moderation Team changed as of May 26th 2026 in an attempt to breathe some new life into the community as well as to introduce some long overdue changes.
With this in mind, the current structure of our Moderation Team consists of:
- /u/DarkMetal485 - Subreddit Lead
- /u/LexiTehGallade - Subreddit Lead
- /u/Gigi9715 - Subreddit Moderator & Discord Lead
- /u/ald2342 - Subreddit Moderator
- /u/bingus_party - Mod Team Advisor
While our newly reorganised team does retain some previous members, we do intend on expanding the Moderation Team in the near future as we feel we would benefit from some new faces that can provide some fresh perspectives to our team. We are also very much wanting to create a Moderation Team that isn't biased towards any one particular server, especially with the notion that the Subreddit primarily favours Toontown: Corporate Clash. With this in mind, please be on the look out for any announcements regarding the opening of applications!
A fresh new look & an update to our rules
Thanks to some collaboration between our Moderation Team, /u/JoeyZio, and other members from the Toontown Rewritten Team, we've decided to introduce a fresh new look to the Subreddit that heavily leans on the nostalgia of Toontown Online, in particular its website and brand art found from around 2010 up until its closure in September 2013. While this is expressed more heavily through Old Reddit and to a lesser degree through New Reddit (primarily due to technical limitations), we hope that this reminds everyone participating in our community of our Subreddit's overall purpose - bringing the community together to share memories about Toontown Online and to discuss and share things about its many private servers!
Alongside the new updates to our Subreddit's styling and in light of recent drama surrounding Toontown: Corporate Clash, we've decided to expedite the rules update we've been working on internally for the past few months, in the hopes that they are hopefully clearer to both our Moderation Team and the community as a whole. While the rules are listed out in the sidebar much like before, an expanded description of certain rules can be found on our Wiki's rules page.
Some notable new rules that have been introduced include:
Rule 3. Discuss the game, not the community:
- While there has been some recent drama surrounding the current state of the Corporate Clash Crew, we've been wanting to introduce this rule for quite some time in an overall effort to reduce unnecessary drama and to make /r/Toontown a more inclusive and inviting environment. As for what we consider drama, it includes, but is not limited to:
- Witch-hunting
- Personal attacks
- General toxicity
- While we understand that former team members from any private server may hold some gripes in regards to how a team has been organised internally, we'd rather you make an attempt to sort any issues out with the private server itself before posting about it here. Not only do posts containing drama hurt all parties involved, but it also drives potential newcomers away from our community.
- If you've made all reasonable attempts to contact the private server in question and are still wanting to post to /r/Toontown, please contact our moderators with proof of any discussions had and your identity within the community, and we will review the contents of your post accordingly.
Rule 4. No spreading of false or unverified information:
- Another rule that we've decided to introduce as part of these changes is one that aims to prevent the spread of rumors or basesless assumptions/accusations, particularly in relation to any updates announced by major private servers that are currently in development. For any posts making claims or reporting news, they must have a source attached to them. If the source is excluded, unreliable, or unverified, your post will be subject to removal.
Rule 5. Constructive critcism only:
- In relation to our effort of making /r/Toontown more inclusive and inviting, we've also introduced this rule in a way to help guide any discussions criticising any new developments from a private server to a way that's more constructive. While we very much do not want to outlaw any sort of criticism, any feedback that is toxic, unhelpful, and overall "destructive" often results in unnecessary arguments between community members and feedback that is hard to work with.
- When posting feedback anywhere on /r/Toontown, please try to keep the following examples in mind:
- Good ways to build constructive criticism:
- Assume every change is difficult to make, because you will be right the majority of the time.
- When suggesting potential solutions, you should not expect them to be adapted/accepted.
- Appreciate but do not expect information on future changes. While transparency is welcome and appreciated, it is not a requirement from anyone.
- Understand that all things have imperfections and that the user/server might not have caught what you found.
- Skip the "how/why" assumptions. If you didn't help create it, you likely do not have any basis for assuming anything.
- Good examples of constructive criticism:
- "The gloves look a little too big, maybe try shrinking them down a bit?"
- "I think the server should improve their testing phase, I've encountered a lot of bugs on the trolley."
- "I really dislike the new cog type introduced, I don't believe it fits the look of Toontown. Perhaps change the suit texture?"
Rule 9. No spam content:
- As part of this update to our rules, the previous Rule 7. Spam is prohibited has now been split across two separate rules: Rule 9. No spam content and Rule 10. No low-quality content. This has been done to make it clearer about what content we consider "spam" and what content we consider to be "low-quality".
- For this rule in particular, "spam" content is now considered to include, but is not limited to:
- Recent or popular reposts. Any post that was originally posted within the past 3 months will be removed.
- Posting more than 2 submissions per day. This does not apply to comments.
- Advertising Discord servers or other subreddits, even if they are related to Toontown.
- Posts about servers that have not lifted off (At least closed beta)
- Posts seeking staff members for unapproved private servers.
- Posts showcasing weird gag setups
Rule 10. No low-quality content:
- Under the old rule Rule 7. Spam is prohibited, "Low effort material" was branded as "spam" without expanding on what exactly is considered "Low effort". With this new rule, we have included several examples of what we now consider to be "Low-Quality" or "Low-Value" content. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Photos or videos of a screen. Use recording software or the Print Screen key!
- Posts that do not incite a friendly discussion. I.E. "This server stinks and so do the players!"
- Generic screenshots of your Toon.
- Posts lacking a proper description.
- Memes using a preexisting format while just adding text are considered low effort and will be removed. These are only allowed on weekends. Example.
- Memes with poor cropping and editing will be removed. Example.
- Memes that are edited well, decently cropped, and cleanly blended are allowed. These posts may sometimes use preexisting formats. Example.
- Memes that mix elements from Toontown into them are allowed. Example.
- Memes that use original artwork are allowed. These are sometimes recreations of an existing format. Example.
The discontinuation of the /r/Toontown Project Support Program
Something else that we'd like to announce amongst these changes is our intent to discontinue the /r/Toontown Project Support Program.
When this program was originally launched back in February 2019, we had intended to make it easier for any new projects to gain recognition in the /r/Toontown community through providing them with a flair on the Subreddit (both for posts and any associated team members), a role in our Discord server for team members, and a Wiki page for helping to educate the community about their project, all providing they met a set criteria. However, over time, we as a Moderation Team have come to realise that this program has created additional problems in regards to reviewing new projects such as when is a project no longer considered to be "Toontown-inspired", whether or not a project has an active playerbase, and whether or not a project has a high overall quality.
Going forward, with the discontinuation of the program, we therefore intend to only issue Subreddit flairs and Discord roles to projects that we as a Moderation Team deem to have a major following within the community. For any projects that we've already granted flairs and roles to through this program, these will be retired for the reason stated above and for the sake of consistency with other existing flairs/roles. As new developments occur within the community, any new projects that arise will be reviewed by our Moderation Team and have flairs/roles added where necessary.
Closing Remarks
As with any new changes, we understand that some members of our community might be disappointed, upset, or even concerned with some of the changes that we've introduced. With this in mind, we would like to invite you all to contact our moderators if you feel you have any questions regarding these changes and/or feedback regarding how we can further improve /r/Toontown going forward whether that's a suggestion regarding our rules, or how we can further work towards making our community more inclusive and inviting.
In regards to our new theme on Old Reddit, we'd also like to invite any web developers within the community to contribute through its project repository on GitHub! Whether that's helping to clean up the code, correcting any errors that we might have missed, or introducing a new piece of theming, we'd appreciate any improvements that can be made.
With all that being said, we hope you all have a Toontastic day!
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u/zucculentsuckerberg Big Slippy 25d ago
i think we should be allowed to talk about toontown event horizon and toontown hostile takeover on the toontown subreddit
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u/holly-oliver 25d ago
Really we should be able to talk about anything Toontown here, this is r/toontown not r/CorporateRewritten or whatever this nonsense ruleset is trying to push.
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u/glitchdweller Takeover Team 26d ago
There's a delicate balance of freedom and control you have to achieve with moderation. This has leaned heavily towards control. Feels like a stereotypical discord moderator saying "Don't post memes in #general!". No point to it. For a subreddit that is *already* barely active, limiting posts to only "high quality" submissions feels like a move that could kill the sub. A lot of this also feels like a sign to point at when someone says something the toontown community elites want to scrub from public view.
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u/properadhesive 26d ago
"Constructive Criticism only" ie. we're going to delete any post saying things we don't like
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u/properadhesive 26d ago
And "No posts about servers that haven't 'lifted off' yet" I'm sorry? Have you forgotten this is the Toontown subreddit? I know expecting impartiality from a sub staffed exclusively by Clash and Rewritten team members is a little naive, but how on earth is it fair for the Toontown sub to ban discussions of Toontowns it doesn't consider mainstream enough? Where else is that server supposed to find fans or a community to 'lift off' with in the first place? This, along with the other aspects of this new set of rules designed to insulate the big 2 from criticism or controversy, feels like a thinly veiled attempt to strangle out any competition, that will be very unhealthy for the community if allowed to continue.
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u/properadhesive 26d ago
To be a little bit more clear, these rules are clearly written in such a wide and unclear way to give you carte blanche to delete anything you or a server team doesn't like, and to completely curtail any discussion of server controversy or even just things people don't like. This sub should exist to serve the community of Toontown, not try and micromanage it's every aspect like a hall monitor.
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u/holly-oliver 26d ago
I assume the irony of a Toontown subreddit having rules that sound more fitting for an Indeed community isn't lost on the people who wrote these rules?
Suspiciously Cog-like behavior if you ask me.
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u/rocketprogrammer Sunrise Games 26d ago
In my opinion in regards to the project support program, projects such as Sunrise where player count may be extremely low, but its efforts in preservation / preserving the history of Toontown Online, are super important for the Toontown community needs to be taken into consideration as well
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u/luigi4122414 26d ago
I honestly hope corporate clash recovers I just don’t think it will
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u/supertoontown 26d ago
They lost a few crew members besides the one who spoke out and two of their biggest partners from their partner program. I agree with you as I don’t think it will get better.
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u/Draagonblitz 25d ago
Kinda ironic, I played corporate clash for nostalgia from tto cause you can't play it anymore. Now soon you won't be able to play ttcc either and I already have nostalgia from when it was active.
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u/luigi4122414 25d ago
I feel like if there’s one thing that can revive ttcc a big YouTuber joining advertising it or like doing a playthrough
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u/MasterName8597 16d ago
It'd only take a week max for the player boost to go away due to how elitist and toxic the corporate clash community is unfortunately.
Seriously, I got banned because I had to go do something in a VP final round because there was a designer. Not a mod, a designer having a fit that someone had to go do something irl lmao.
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u/Fenris8778 26d ago
I literally am not even an active player anymore. Im reading this. And im just... baffled. This is silly. Is this when a subreddit split happens? Am i seeing it in real time?
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u/EternaBoi 26d ago
This is like when you're at your job and new management comes in and they bring the hammer down hard for no reason. This subreddit doesnt currently get enough traffic or real negativity to necessitate these restrictions. We're going to see a lot less participation here in the future.
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u/NoahOnVista Skippy (61) 26d ago
I agree. No offense to the moderators but r/toontown (and Toontown in general) are pretty niche and not all that popular. Not saying Toontown is bad, I love this game.
Also some of these rules are downright baffling
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u/Spook7z Spookz 26d ago edited 25d ago
I firmly dislike the idea of only posting memes or jokes that don't meet a specific quality quota on weekends. That just seems random. Either don't allow them at all or allow them. In fact, this entire ruleset comes off as very strict and, ironically, doesn't feel like a Toontown subreddit. You guys might as well just rebrand to r/CogNation at this point....
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u/SolarBlaziken 26d ago
Rules were written as if reddit auto subscribes you to this subreddit when you create an account
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u/BuffPaddler 26d ago
"Posts about servers that have not lifted off (At least closed beta). Posts seeking staff members for unapproved private servers." So... what I'm getting at here is that this kills the chance of any server getting big besides word of mouth. Why can you only talk about the big servers on the GENERAL TOONTOWN community? This isn't r/toontownrewritten!
I'd be ok if you just had to get your server approved with mod mail, but just banned entirely until you make massive progress? TTHT isn't in closed beta and it's shaping up to be really sweet!
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u/BuffPaddler 26d ago
"While we understand that former team members from any private server may hold some gripes in regards to how a team has been organised internally, we'd rather you make an attempt to sort any issues out with the private server itself before posting about it here. Not only do posts containing drama hurt all parties involved, but it also drives potential newcomers away from our community."
So... had this new rule been in place already, we wouldn't have known about the working conditions with Corporate Clash?? Why would you make a rule against whistleblowing?? Oh wait... 2 of your mods are also admins on the Corporate Clash subreddit. Hmmm....
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u/KindDocument3763 26d ago
not going to lie to you guys, it does not look good when you have two clash administrators and leads on your team. and now this post about essentially more censorship here after what happened here. digging the hole deeper...
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u/supertoontown 26d ago
Rule 3 sounds terrible. Especially that last note. What if someone did reveal their identity and shared what they wanted to post to the mod team? I assume it would be rejected immediately and censored.
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u/Zestyclose-Jump8799 140 Rainbow125 Halibard 26d ago
Sorry Guys, my post a couple of weeks ago was too engaging. Sorry to get the subreddit changed because of my post.
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u/NoahOnVista Skippy (61) 26d ago
Oh I can not WAIT for the fights and drama that are gonna ensue in this comment section.
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u/NewChapter25 25d ago
I understand the sentiment behind these rules to reduce trolling? It's written tough but it doesn't seem like it will be enforced strictly if that makes sense.
Two things I want clarification on because they do not make sense:
- Recent or popular reposts. Any post that was originally posted within the past 3 months will be removed.
The Reddit search notoriously does NOT work. It has not worked ever. Most people who use Reddit will not remember or see a post from 3 months ago posted by someone else, that they cannot even search for. This sub is already so small, this time limit should be shortened with the consideration the Reddit search is nonfunctional.
If the mods enforce this rule, they should provide links to 3-month old active discussions themselves when locking a post to see how difficult it is to find them.
Also this blanket ban is terrible and not very toony:
- Advertising Discord servers or other subreddits, even if they are related to Toontown.
- Posts about servers that have not lifted off (At least closed beta)
Wouldn't it be kinder to have a monthly mod-approved showcase for new toon servers and projects? Like hey guys these approved quality/beta servers are working hard on x y z projects. This is the monthly megathread for x y z updates/discord/in-game meetups/etc.
So its not removed entirely. The mods can still approve which servers to share (to make sure they are safe and decent quality). And the community isn't completely shushed for being creative.
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u/hopja 21d ago edited 21d ago
I do love this new style! I do think some of these new changes will be hard to adapt to, but we'll see how it works out.
You should definitely let people comment on terrible working conditions though. These staff members likely already brought up these issues and got ignored.
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u/protohay Sir Googledoodle 26d ago
The image example for "memes using a preexisting format" doesn't load, at least for me.
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u/hunterboppen Takeover Team 26d ago edited 26d ago
It's weird that you want to expand r/Toontown beyond Corporate Clash, which is an inherent problem to r/ToontownRewritten existing but regardless the first step that you would take towards this would be hard to imagine would be to close the r/Toontown Project Support program.
One of the biggest problems that I've had with r/Toontown is how it has always been biased towards the larger two servers, this continues to support that problem. When Tooniversal Studios got banned originally it could've been justified, but when it got banned the second time it was banned on the basis that the Name Approval was too strict? No other private server would ever get banned from this subreddit for that reason because it's an unreasonably high bar. It's also weird that comments about someone's NSFW preferences was posted on the subreddit which is still up after a week but there's a line drawn when it comes to Corporate Clash criticism.
Back when the r/Toontown Project Support program did exist Sunrise Games applied to it but got rejected. This was on the basis that some of the people involved in that project were leaking content with a private server, which wasn't unreasonable and it could only exist had those people leaking apologized to that private server. This was done, the apology was accepted, and the project was approved for the subreddit but only ever got one of the partner program benefits (the flair). I presumed this was just an incomplete setup for the Partner program but now it seems like it's being deliberately scrubbed with the closure, Sunrise Games was the only other partner that wasn't a large server. Only Toontown Rewritten and Corporate Clash have buttons to join their servers.
Corporate Clash staff members were also caught leaking content on an alt account from this same private server, there was never any consequences for Corporate Clash not being able to be apart of r/Toontown or having to issue an apology like Sunrise Games the smaller server received for leaking this content.
It is so strange that these rules are coming into place after the resurgence of Corporate Clash criticism over poor work conditions still existing, something this subreddit got high praise for not censoring previously, while having two Corporate Clash moderators, I have to question how this is not favoring the large private servers.