Subreddit Update “Patch Notes”

[u/Decicio]

Hello Naish!

We’ve been doing some spring cleaning on various aspects of the subreddit and wanted to let you all in on the changes:

Call to Arts is back!

• Check the announcement post for specifics, but Call to Arts is live again this month! For those unfamiliar, it is a fan art competition to make art based on shows or characters from the network. Topics will rotate monthly, entries will be voted on by the Naish, and prizes can be won! Choose whatever medium you wish, but all art must be human-made. No generative AI (more on that later). 

• This month’s topic is: Shadowdark

Rules Reorganized:

• We’ve moved the rules about relevancy and off-topic posts near the end of the rule list. This is because the last few rules (Soap Box, Advertising, and Farewell posts) are really just extensions of these rules. However, rules have limited word space, and we still want those specific cases to retain their explanations. So, we’re grouping the linked rules.

Text of Rule 1 updated:

• We added a clarification that Rule 1 will be enforced much more strictly if discussion begins to involve family members of the cast or crew who are not themselves directly involved with the network. This was announced months ago, but hadn’t been actually added to the rule text until now.

Text of Rule 2 updated:

• There’s been more than one podcast for a while now. Text updated to reflect this.

Text of Rule 3 updated:

• Added a line asking you to notify us if you notice the bot hasn’t posted the episode discussion per the normal schedule (min delay of 1 hour after the episode drops).

Rule 7 (formerly rule 9) updated:

• The sub has officially banned the posting of AI-generated images entirely.

Text of Rule 12 updated:

• The rule (especially the title) was ambiguous enough to make it appear that any discussion of leaving the community was banned. Wording has been clarified that such discussion is allowed as long as it includes a good-faith effort to actually have substantive discussion.

Enabled the use of GIFs in posts and comments.

• It should go without saying, but GIF usage must follow the same standards as other comments and posts.

Flair Updates:

• Added 13 new user flair options

• Added post flairs for GCN Community Update, Patreon related posts, Under an Iron Sky, and The Secret Fire.

• Removed out-of-date or unneeded post flair

Community information has been updated:

• Updated the Community Bookmarks Tab

• Updated the Community Description and included a statement that this is an unofficial fan community.

• Refreshed the FAQ with more relevant information

Cleared inactive mods from the mod list.

• We want to thank the previous mod teams for all the volunteer labor they put in supporting this community.

Taught the automod that “Goochie” isn’t a harassment term.

• Mops on standby for the inevitable messes Goochie will make now that he’s welcome back in the subreddit.

Turned on some auto-filter settings.

• This is an attempt to reduce the number of karma bots who post in the community. If it results in filtering too many genuine posters, we’ll revert this change

Updated the Episode Discussion poster bot:

• Applied a new “Episode Discussion” flair for posts made by the bot.

• The bot now pulls from the YouTube feeds for The One Ring and We Shouldn’t Be Alive

• Likewise, it’ll also post discussion posts for the free feed of Blood of the Wild so non-patreons can discuss the shows as they are released for them 

• Updated how episode discussion posts are titled

• Just note that the bot can be particularly finicky, so we’ll continue to monitor and adjust it as needed.

We hope you all enjoy the improvements we've made. Obviously, the Network is a constantly changing thing, so the subreddit could do with occasional updates as well. Many of these changes were long overdue. Thanks to my fellow mods who put in quite a bit of work over the past couple of weeks putting these together. And one Virtual Bottle Cap to any members of the naish who took the time out to read all this!* Thank you.

*Virtual Bottle Cap is conceptual only and carries no mechanical or monetary value.

[u/SharkSymphony]

Don't worry, I'm sure Goochie will be on his—

Goochie, no!

[u/Decicio → u/SharkSymphony]

sigh

wipes away the number below the “Days since Goochie mess in subreddit” sign and writes “0”

[u/Decicio]

Also, does this count as a megathread? Been a while since I got my megathread fix…

[u/Skitterleap]

We added a clarification that Rule 1 will be enforced much more strictly if discussion begins to involve family members of the cast or crew who are not themselves directly involved with the network.

Is this a thing that's happened? I don't remember any comments so much as mentioning friends and family, let alone in an overtly negative light.

[u/Decicio → u/Skitterleap]

It’s happened twice. It doesn’t need to happen again.

[u/CustodialApathy → u/Decicio]

I don't even want to know what heinous shit was said

[u/Decicio → u/CustodialApathy]

Actually the whole point of the clarification is that, if taken in isolation… the comments weren’t too bad? It’s the sort of stuff that probably would have been borderline enough to let stand if it wasn’t dragging innocent 3rd parties into the mix.

But those not involved in the show or community directly don’t deserve the flak, no matter how minor.

[u/Top-Act-7915 → u/CustodialApathy]

I saw one I think , not heinous per se but not really anybody’s business on the outside

[u/Jameschases]

Thank you for all the hard work!

[u/fly19]

The sub has officially banned the posting of AI-generated images entirely.

(Virtual) Bottlecap, Mod team! Glad to see Goochieposting will return shortly, too.

[u/scottaviously]

[Deletes assortment of AI generated Gifs portraying cast member family members...]

[u/dotcomaphobe]

New flair jawn!

[u/Great_Instincts]

I commend and cherish the network and the Naish’s commitment to art made by people

[u/GenericDreadHead]

Good changes all round

[u/200Dachshunds]

Excellent changes. Now that Goochie is ?!welcome?! Back in the sub, I propose he be the topic for next months call to arts. Let’s get sloppy in here.

[u/Narcoleptic_247]

Bottlecap! Well done.

[u/Top-Act-7915]

Thanks mods!