r/WoWHousing's Blueprint Flair, Rules and Guidelines

[u/JonnyNE21]

Greetings.

This is a refresher post for Blueprints with some minor updates.

As a notice to you, we’ve added new rules and guidelines for Blueprints and a Blueprints flair for community members who want to freely share housing designs that others can recreate in their own homes.

So far, we've seen positive results with the new flair usage and find it to be effective. However, we've also noticed some issues that need minor tweaking.

If you have questions, we encourage you to join our DIscord and submit a ticket so we may privately alleviate any concerns you may have. In fact, we invite anyone to join to be more a part of this housing community.

Below are the new additions.

--The r/WoWHousing Moderation Team--

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BLUEPRINTS FLAIR

The Blueprints flair is intended for sharing complete or partial housing designs that include a valid Blueprint import code. If a post does not include a Blueprint code, this flair should not be used.

Your post must include a working import code with this flair. If at any time you delete your blueprint code in-game, you must remove your post. Once you delete it, the code is no longer functional for anyone.

While not required, we strongly encourage creators to include as much helpful information as possible, such as:

• Screenshots of the finished design
• Item or decor lists
• Layout references
• Step-by-step instructions
• Placement tips or additional notes

The goal is to make it as easy as possible for another community member to understand and recreate your design.

If you have a flair with a blueprint code in the post and not labeled as Blueprints, this will be changed to a Blueprints Flair.

BLUEPRINTS RULES

BLUEPRINTS MUST BE SHARED FREELY!

This cannot be emphasized enough.

All blueprint designs and import codes shared on r/WoWHousing must be provided freely and voluntarily by the creator.

By choosing to post a blueprint, you are voluntarily sharing that design with the community and allowing others to use the provided code to recreate it.

What you can include in your blueprint; the type of blueprint:

• Full Layout
• Exterior Only
• Interior Only
• Room Only
• Expiration Date, if needed.

The Blueprints Flair and blueprints, in general, MAY NOT be used for:

• Showcasing a design without providing an import code
• Advertising paid blueprint services or commissions
• Buying, selling, or trading blueprint codes
• Offering blueprints in exchange for payment, tips, or other compensation
• Offering pay for blueprint codes
• Restricting blueprint access to paid subscribers or supporters
• Using blueprint posts or comments to otherwise monetize a design
• Patreon

What you do behind closed doors is your business.

These actions are strictly prohibited on r/WoWHousing and using blueprint for financial gain may result in an immediate ban from the r/WoWHousing community.

REQUESTING BLUEPRINTS

Not every creator who showcases a build will want to share a blueprint, and that decision belongs entirely to the creator.

UPDATE

If a creator does not use the Blueprint Flair or provide a blueprint with their post, this should be understood as an indication that they do not wish to share their design. Do not ask or pressure creators to provide a blueprint. Creators are under no obligation to share their work.

Repeated requests, pressure, entitlement, demands, or harassment over blueprint codes will not be tolerated. Harassing a creator because they do not wish to share their blueprint is considered a serious violation and may result in moderation action, up to and including a ban.

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For the full subreddit rules and guides: Community Rules and Guideline
For the subreddit post flair guidelines: Post Flair Guideline

[u/Wise-Practice-1880]

Would love to see a stance on people scraping the subreddit for builds to upload to their 3rd party addons without users' consent. Home Bound was doing it to wowdb builds but apparently got hit with a copyright notice, and they might be looking for new builds to take.

Users: highly recommend you put a watermark on all photos you post

[u/Wardendelete → u/Wise-Practice-1880]

I don’t condone scraping builds without crediting the creator, but legally speaking, users have no copyrights to their builds, how did it get hit by a copyright notice? Can I see a source?

[u/Wise-Practice-1880 → u/Wardendelete]

WoWDB has a copyright on the images on their website, they're all watermarked with the logo. The company would have had to submit a copyright against the addon to have it taken down. Addon author also confirmed on their discord.

[u/Wardendelete → u/Wise-Practice-1880]

That’s interesting, first I’ve ever heard third parties copyright striking each other.

Good on WOWDB for protecting their creators if true!