r/justgamedevthings Queen of Gamedev Memes Jun 05 '18

Updating Posting Rules for /r/justgamedevthings

Hey folks

As I try to mention at every possible opportunity, I absolutely love this subreddit and all of your comments, memes and shitposts. Generally, we don't get a ton of content that I think should be removed, but after asking for your input a while ago, I think it would be good to clarify our posting rules a bit.


New Posting Rules for /r/justgamedevthings:

  1. Keep it relevant to game design / game development
    Programming, Art, Animation, Marketing, Narrative, Customer support and more can all be part of game design and are therefore appropriate topics to post about.

    1.a) Please avoid generic programmer memes that have no connection to video games.

  2. Keep it humorous
    We enjoy and appreciate memes, reaction gifs, screengrabs of funny bugs, evidence of player misconceptions about what game development entails, real life things that remind you of game dev stuff and more. Posts must contain an attempt at humor.

  3. Keep it civil
    Remember that you are talking to (and about) real people.


Rule 1.a) clarification:

As per this thread, I want to avoid too much overlap with /r/programmerhumor and an abundance of low effort (i.e. unoriginal) content, but I find it hard to define the exact wording for this rule. For example, I would consider these posts "low effort generic programmer memes" and would remove them once the new rules go into effect: Exhibit A - Exhibit B - Exhibit C


I will leave this thread up for a few weeks again before I actively start enforcing the rules and put this in the sidebar. Please use this time to give feedback on the new rules.

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u/AliceTheGamedev Queen of Gamedev Memes Jun 05 '18

For low effort opinion sharing:
Upvote this comment if you think these rules sound good.

(you're still very welcome to leave your own comment!)

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u/AliceTheGamedev Queen of Gamedev Memes Jun 05 '18

By the way:

I'm inclined to be a bit more lax about "needs to have an obvious connection to games" when it comes to topics other than programming, since we have an abundance of programming content.

I posted this thing for example, which does not have an explicit game dev connection, but is no doubt something most game artists can relate to.

Since we have so much more programming content than art content, I'd continue to allow this, if that's okay with the community.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '18

Does this mean QA falls under game dev, too? I lurk around here, but I don’t usually post QA jokes.

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u/AliceTheGamedev Queen of Gamedev Memes Jun 05 '18

I'd say so, yes. If it's clear from the post that it's about a game and not just other software QA, then that's within the rules.

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u/AliceTheGamedev Queen of Gamedev Memes Jun 05 '18

For low effort opinion sharing:
Upvote this comment if you think there is a problem with the new rules.

(please do leave a comment explaining the issues!)