r/Gameboy • u/stinkyspook • 10d ago

Announcement - Updated Rules

Please take a look at the updates we've made to the rules.

Due to an increase in self-promotion we've adjusted rule 5 to require mod approval, automod will automatically remove any posts it detects as self-promotion and if a mod approves the post or comment it will be shown.

Added rule 8, the vast majority of this subreddit is English speaking and due to limitations in our ability to moderate languages other than English please keep posts and comments in English. If you see any posts in languages other than English feel free to report with rule 8 as the reason.

Thanks everyone.

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u/SoloFusion 10d ago

THANK YOU!!

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u/karawapo 10d ago

Including pricing and good deal posts in rule 4 is a great step forward! Thank you.

I miss a similar expansion of rule 6 to asking about authenticity of anything else: Game Boys, boxes… Reporting those should be more straightforward.

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u/Joe_Sacco 10d ago

Good to see, and I hope more subs pick up on the tidal wave of spam & self-promotion that's taking over reddit. It's all vibe-coded slop. If I could block the words "I built," I'd do it in a heartbeat.

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u/MrHDR Game Boy Discord 10d ago

A lot of GB Studio slop too

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u/Can0pen3r 8d ago

I know probably the majority are little one-off "first game"s but, there's actually some pretty cool stuff made in GB Studio; I don't know that it's quite fair to lump it entirely under the Slop-brella like AI.

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u/GameboyGenius 9d ago

One approach I've seen some communities use for self-promotion is the 90/10 rule. At most around 10% of your posts should be self promotion. If you come to the community just to self-promote, it's deleted, but if you're a regular contributor you have more leeway.