u/AleccMG

While this community appreciates the engagement from developers and designers, the recent trend towards high-cadence updates from accounts that otherwise don't significantly contribute to the community is starting to shift the feel of the community in a direction that isn't desirable.

Starting tomorrow (10/5), all dev-updates and self-promotion posts MUST be submitted as a top-level comment in a newly established pinned mega-thread. This will centralize where members interested in finding the updates will look, declog the feeds, and keep you engaged with the community.

The mods will continue to work to keep the community focused without being heavy handed. Feel free to modmail us with any suggestions or feedback!

Edit: We'll be having automod automatically enforce this rule initially to minimize the reports and to provide prompt feedback. If you feel that reddit miss-ID's your post as a dev-update or as self promotion, shoot us a modmail.

Hi everyone! Local mods, just checking in.

A day ago, an AI self-promotion post came along and caused a fair bit of commotion. In proper wargame fashion, a good debrief is in order so that we can succeed as a community.

1. OP's post and responses drew a fair number of reports. OP was a new reddit account, the posted video was self-promotion, and arguably AI slop. OP responded promptly to engagement in the thread, but again the responses read heavily of AI (formatting, structure, phrasing, etc).
2. Mods initially let OPs post and responses stand, as there was clearly active engagement, it was concievable that a non-English speaker was using GPT for translation, and self-moderation occurring. Over time, reddit systems automatically started pruning some of OPs responses, and the mod team pruned comments that were not germane to wargaming.
3. The post has since been removed. Additionally, one community member who was needlessly conducting personal attacks in the comments received a temp ban.

To date, we have had a fairly lax moderation policy and ruleset for posting. Our mature community and active self-moderation (ie, down voting) leads to most issues being worked without mod intervention. The only areas of active mod intervention has primarily been Rule 3 (no geopolitical simulators), Rule 1 (Stay on topic), and Rule 4 (remember the human).

• Do we, as a community, feel that we have the right rules and enforcement to make this a useful space?
• Are there rules you'd prefer that remove or refine?
• Are there rules that you wish that we had or would enforce?
• What do we consider ban-able offenses, and what would trigger a permanent ban?

This is our community, and we'll establish rulesets that support our interests and growth. These will evolve over time, to keep up with our needs.

As a final aside, if anyone has been part of this community for a long time and is interested in assisting with moderation, please send a note to modmail!

Thank you all, and game on!