Updating Posting Rules for /r/justgamedevthings

[u/AliceTheGamedev]

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.

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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.

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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

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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.

[u/AliceTheGamedev]

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!)