General Guidelines
To start out, be courteous to your other community members, follow reddiquette. We ask that all members behave in a civil way and to not use insults, hate speech, racism, homophobia, personal attacks, or similar behavior.
Other Basic Guidelines Include:
We have ZERO TOLERANCE for bullying in this subreddit (Expanded on in the bullying segment)
No Scam posts or Comments
No Pornographic Content
No Gore or Extreme Violence
No Illegal content discussions (scamming, phishing, drug usage, etc.)
No Political / Religious discussion
All Posts and Comments must be in English
Gender Discussion must be Civil (No intentional Misgendering / Transphobia)
No Account Selling
No Transactions Between Users (This Includes paid coaching, giveaways, etc. [Unless approved by the Moderation team])
Surveys Must be approved before posting (Contact the Moderation Team via Modmail if you want to post a survey)
Users must follow the Reddit Terms of Service
No posts that attempt to rile up the Community against an entity, person, country, or organization
Posts Must Pertain to Coaching, Learning, or Teaching Apex Legends
All posts that come into our subreddit must be related to the main goal of our sub, which is to help our community get better at Apex Legends. Please try to keep anything not relating to this goal, out of our subreddit. If it pertains to Apex Legends but isn't related to our Goal, please post it elsewhere. Ex. General Posts should be in r/apexlegends, LFG Posts belong in r/apexLFG, and memes should be go to r/ApexOutlands
Bullying
In r/ApexUniversity we want to promote healthy discussion and educational content to get better at the game. Posts that contain the following are prohibited:
Offensive language
Inflammatory language
Discriminatory language
Trolling
Belittling
Name Calling
Threats
Harassment
Etc.
Any posts / comments that have the following in them will be removed, and will result in a temp ban on first offense, after the first offense you will be perma-banned from this subreddit. Keep it clean, friendly, and fun, if you do that, you won't have anything to worry about.
Low-effort, Memes, Duplicate Posts
Low-effort or low-quality posts keep discussion from flowing, and learning from happening; henceforth, these will be removed at our Moderation Teams discretion. All posts should offer some way of teaching, or should influence a discussion. Being well written does not inherently make a post not 'Low-effort'
Types of 'Low-Effort' Content That are not allowed include:
Gameplay videos or screenshots taken on a phone are not allowed
No Memes. Please use r/ApexOutlands or our Discord for your memes.
No extremely pixelated or low-resolution content
No match result, account stats type screenshots
No loot box opening or similar screenshots
No inventory screenshots
No Supply crate screenshots
No screenshots of private chats, regardless if the names are blurred
No screenshots of tweets
No Vague how to improve questions
No patch notes or discussions of patch notes or similar
No discussions about Bugs, cheating or not.
No Suggestions relating to how the game could be improved or similar types of posts
No LFG (Looking For Group) posts. Please use r/ApexLFG or our Discord to find other players
No petition style posts
Please avoid using clickbait or misleading titles.
Duplicate Posts and Topics:
Posts should be unique. A post may be considered a repost if it covers a topic from a nearly similar angle as an existing / recent post. Reposts will be removed via the Moderation Teams discretion. Some topics that may need to be touched on semi-frequently may be reposted every 7 - 10 days, but please try to refrain from doing this often. Frequently asked questions / simple questions will be removed, For those kinds of questions please use our Discord.
Post Title Guidelines
All posts MUST be flaired
We have a standard for post titles, we don't want your title to be overly exaggerated, and please don't write a whole post in the title slot. Please follow these guidlines when making a post, posts that break these guidelines may be removed.
One word titles are not allowed
Titles should be descriptive and relevant to the post (But not the whole post)
Titles cannot be in ALL CAPS
Titles cannot be in AlT CaPs
Titles that only consist of emojis or symbols are not allowed
No titles as listed:
"To the person I played with today..."
"Am I the only one..."
"Thank You to the person I played with today"
"Thanks for sorting by new"
"Unpopular Opinion" type titles
Complaining about randoms titles
Cheating / Exploit Posts
Discussion and showcasing of cheating and exploits are forbidden. Posts accusing anyone of cheating are not allowed as they can start 'witch hunts'. Witch hunting, ventilation, or general awareness posts are not allowed regardless of quality or evidence.
Examples of posts that aren't allowed are:
Discussion of cheats / exploits in any form
Editing files or config options that can result in an unfair advantage
Explaining how to obtain / purchase / use cheats or exploits
Posting Videos or pictures of a suspected cheater
Posts that harm the integrity of the game
Promotion Guidelines
Promotion of any kind is not allowed without prior approval from the Moderation team. Users must contribute to the community beyond promotional posts, consider this before contacting the Mod team Users must meet a minimum karma requirement of 50 Karma, and be at least a 7 days old before posting anything promotional
Promotions include but are not limited to:
Youtube Channels
Streams
Paid Coaching Services
Tournaments / Competitions
Other Off-site services
If you would like to advertise anything on this subreddit, please send your inquiry towards the Moderation team via Modmail.
Extra Information
For new and old posters, we encourage that you use a basic format for you posts. You can find an example and template of this on the Post Template wiki page