Rules Update

Hello r/FortniteBR

We've made some fairly substantial changes to the subreddit rules! Our subreddit is currently seeing 200,000,000 page views per month, around the likes of subreddit's with 18,000,000 subscribers! We've had a huge increase in traffic and both the game and the community are still growing at a rapid pace, and a part of our solution to remedy that was our recent addition of new moderators. We've recently launched a competitive subreddit (r/FortniteCompetitive) to allow for the competitive/esports scene to have it's own community to grow too! Last but not least, with the launch of r/FortniteBRMeta, we have seen a large amount of feedback that we have incorporated into the following rules update.

Rules found here

I want to go over the large changes with you all:

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Witch Hunting has been clarified:

I'd like to highlight the following addition to the rule:

Posts on community figures and public organizations plus their employees are allowed, as long as the posts are civil and do not post personal/confidential information. Posts of clickbait social media titles are not allowed.

We have seen some community figures come under light, and the team has decided that if they chose to put their name out there as a community figure, it is not witch hunting to point out something in a civil manner. We will continue to monitor this and see how it progresses as the community and competitive scene continue to grow.

Posts Should Be High Quality And Encourage Discussion

We want /r/FortniteBR to be the best source of discussion for the game online - and to do that we have to ensure that quality content isn’t drowned out by low effort or low-quality submissions. Content must be related to Fortnite. If your post contains a suggestion for the game, it must contain Fortnite elements.

We have done some significant changes to this section of the rules, this one included. We want to make what we consider relevant to Fortnite more clear, and have included specific guidelines in this rule, if you'd like to see, feel free to review the full rules page. If a post uses Fortnite elements (in game assets, similar looking style inspired by Fortnite, etc.) and is a proper, high quality original post, it is what we are looking for.

Frequently Posted Topics

Please use the search before posting about something. Topics that become excessive and or redundant due to being posted with an abnormal frequency are subject to removal. “Breaking news” style topics are included in this. We will only allow one thread per topic, with Epic and Moderator threads taking priority.

We are introducing a new wiki page, called Epic Plz, this page will be a list of everything that the community has overwhelmingly posted in support of, be it any type of change. It will hopefully be a resource for everyone who visits our subreddit. If something is posted there, it will not be allowed without a new development or in depth assessment that approaches the topic from a new angle. It is not strictly forbidden, but keep in mind that a typical "epic plz" post in this wiki has already seen it's own plethora of discussion.

This is also where we are moving duplicate topics into, Epic and Moderator topics regarding "big hits" will take priority, but the first well written post will be the one that stays. Nothing is changing regarding our stance on duplicate topics, we want to keep the subreddit free of reposts.

Low-Effort/Low-Quality Humor Is Not Allowed.

Low-Effort/Low-Quality Humor Is Not Allowed.

We all enjoy a good laugh, especially about Fornite! We have a high standard for humor; attempts at humor need to have some effort put into them so that the community can find more value in discussing and developing any humor created on our subreddit.

Humor must be original/user created

• This means that all humor must be created by you, and not a template, formula or something similar. Show off your creativity!
• No low resolution, pixelated or "deep fried" images, gifs or videos.

Humor can't be simple "pastes"

• This means copy and pasting assets from Fortnite onto something non-game related is not allowed. If it took you a few minutes to make, it is likely not high quality.
• There has to be a minimal level of effort into creating something new.
  • If something was made in Paint and is noticeably done so, it is subject to removal.

Humor posts can't overly saturate the front page

• If the community is overwhelmingly jumping on board to a new meme/topic, and it becomes a trend that floods the subreddit, they are eligble to be removed as low effort/spam posts.
• If they become too commonplace as a trend they will be eligible to be removed as spam/low effort.

We wanted to approach how funny posts, memes and videos are allowed on our subreddit. We are still assessing these type of posts, but want to clarify this and separate our low quality posts from what we seek out of humor, this should hopefully make the rules a bit more clear on what type of meme-esque posts, and "bandwagon" joke posts we allow. These rules largely speak for themselves, but we would love to hear your feedback regarding it!

Promotion & Give-A-Ways

We have clarified our stance on give-a-ways and promotional content, this is to help improve the experience for everyone and prevent individuals from using the subreddit as an avenue merely for promotional content.

"It's perfectly fine to be a redditor with a website, it's not okay to be a website with a reddit account." - Confucius.

That inspirational and highly relevant quote was ripped straight from reddit's self-promotion wiki page. It's well worth a read. In order keep the subreddit free of advertisement, we enforce a strict 10:1 rule which states:

For every one promotional or giveaway post you submit, 10 high-quality comments or submissions should be non-promotional. High-quality comments must provide a meaningful response and may not be on your own posts.

All promotion posts must abide by our low-quality rules (No clickbait, no all caps titles, etc.)

Read our promotion wiki page to find out what we consider promotional content.

You also may also only make one promotional post every 3 days and any giveaway must be approved by the moderation team ahead of time.

Other small notes

We've made wording changes, clarifications all around the ruleset. None remaining should be too impactful. Feel free to review them at any time.

Submitted June 10, 2018 at 08:28PM by WindAeris https://ift.tt/2l4Ilbf https://ift.tt/eA8V8J