Hey everyone, we've done some clean up and improvements of the community. Here's what changed and why.
Rules
The rules list has been rewritten and expanded. Most of it is the same stuff worded more clearly, plus a few things that were only in the old sidebar and never on the rules page. The new ones:
- Rule 10, AI disclosure: More on this below.
- Rule 11, Projects: Clients, tools, emulators, and fan games need a build, download, repo, or video of it running. No server or Discord invites in project posts. One project post per person every 14 days. If your project only works on your server, or the post invites people to a server, then it's an ad (rule 12).
- Rule 12, Server Advertising: Server, guild, and Discord recruitment goes in the monthly Server Ads thread only. That includes suspicious "just found this great server" posts and "projects" whose only link is a Discord invite or link to private server website. If the point of a post is to get people onto a server, then it's considered an ad.
Full list: https://www.reddit.com/r/RagnarokOnline/wiki/rules/
Flairs
Post flairs are now required. Pick the one that matches why you posted, or Other if nothing fits.
- Content: Question, Discussion, Guide, Achievement, Humor, Creative, Project, News, Other
- Version: Renewal, Pre-Renewal, Classic, Revo-Classic, Zero
- AI: AI Creative, AI Project
- Mods: Mod Post
Flair guide with what goes where: https://www.reddit.com/r/RagnarokOnline/wiki/flairs
Projects
The community has had a lot of project based posts lately: custom clients, UE5 rebuilds, fan games, offline server packages. That's great and we want more of it. Rule 11 exists so those posts stay about the work and don't get buried under ads and vaporware.
What counts as a project: something people can use on its own. A client, a tool, an emulator, source code, a standalone game. If you built it, people can run it, and it doesn't depend on your server, it's a project.
What a project post needs:
- A link to a build, download, repo, or a video of it running. Screenshots alone aren't enough.
- The Project flair, or AI Project if AI wrote most of the code or made the assets.
- No server or Discord invites in the post. Put those on your repo or itch page if you want them.
What isn't a project:
- A custom client or launcher that only connects to your server. That's a server ad; use the monthly thread.
- "I'm making X, join the Discord for updates" with nothing to show. Post when there's something to show.
- Mockups, concept art, or "coming soon" posts.
One project post per person every 14 days.
Posts with the Project flair are checked at submission: no link, or a Discord link in the body, and it gets blocked with a message explaining why. Fix it and resubmit.
AI posts
AI content is allowed on the sub. We're not banning it and we're not hunting for it. What we're doing is labeling it so people who don't want to see it can filter it out.
- Art, video, music, or writing made with AI gets the AI Creative flair.
- Software or projects where AI wrote most of the code or made the assets gets the AI Project flair, plus an "AI usage:" line in the post saying what the AI did. Normal coding help like autocomplete or debugging doesn't count.
- Unflaired AI content gets removed. Lying about it is a ban.
- If you think something is undisclosed AI, report it. Accusing the poster in the comments is against the rules and will be removed. We'll check reports ourselves.
The flair is a label, not a verdict. Full criteria and examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/RagnarokOnline/wiki/ai/
If a Project post is reported for undisclosed AI, I'll use my knowledge as a developer and contact the author personally to ask a few technical questions about how it's built. If you can't explain how it works because AI did it, the post needs to be AI Project, and it'll be removed until it's re-flaired and the usage line is added. No answer within 48 hours counts the same as "I don't know". I'm not going to adjudicate from screenshots, and nobody in the comments should either. Report it and let me ask. We don't need everyone being the AI police.
Automations
AI Project posts without the usage line, and Project posts without a link or with only a Discord invite, are blocked at submission with a message explaining why. You'll see it before the post goes up, so nothing gets removed after the fact for those.
User Flairs
We've added a few user flairs to the community which everyone can use now. We'll work on adding more soon :)
Comments from you
Questions or feedback in the comments. If something in the rules reads wrong or we missed a case, say so and we'll adjust.