u/Shad0wPillow

Internet safety PSA: Keeping your profile Private, is not actually private.

Any mod on any subreddit can see all of your post history on all subreddits, if you've commented in that mod's sub even once in the past 28 days. Please don't visit region/city/country-based subs on your main account, in order to not be dox'd! There will always be bad apples out there.

All reddit posts and comments are also copied into another searchable site as well, so users that know about this can also dig up all your history, mod or not.

Also imagine RedditWrapped being used on you, but rather than a fun and zany AI summary, someone asks "Tell me all the identifying details about this person and their location."

Use a seperate account for any irl information or questions on other subs. Be like Klein—absolute seperation of identities is necessary for privacy.

Another tip or strategy is to create as many lies or misinformation on your identity as possible; i.e. visit many random city or country subreddits and comment. Lie, lie, lie to confuse them all, so they can no longer tell what is truth and what isn't. This can also obscure the truth, and fun fact, is the best strategy if you're being tortured or interrogated!

This came up recently, after we discovered it. Too many people here post their identifying information or ages; don't do this. Even if you trust specific people, the internet is a large place, and this is a public forum! Please practice internet safety.

^(This post won't be pinned, but a shorter reminder is also now in the Community Updates linktree.)

Firstly—big thank you to the community overall for shifting to always include art credits when reposting fanart.

Secondly! new resources for art credits:

• sefira.it.com/gallery is back up running! If you can, please pitch in and donate a small amount to the website creator (Donations page on the site) to keep the website running. The fan website also includes a Beyonder simulator game :)

• The Credited Fanart Gdrive is now being released! You can find lots of iconic LotM artwork there, memes & reacts, etc., with credits attached to each image and also in a seperate text document. More art will be added over time by the awesome project team, and OwnMonitor will post a more full announcement for the release later.

• Special thanks to u/Gakamis and u/LuckySwordBR for respectively executing and ideating the Tree of Shadow, which inspired many fellow redditors to pick up their ink and pens, pixels and tablets, to draw and create their own art! Vive la renaissance!

• Remember to write the artist name @ social media and/or URL in text when sharing full fanarts. Memes & reacts are OK if they have a clear & readable watermark. Treat pinterest links with extreme suspicion; they are usually also reposts without credits, i.e. stolen art.

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Thirdly, wow, we have a lot of updates and events in our community rn! This post will serve as a linktree, before we're also able to figure out how to organize all these into the About page or otherwise (ideas very welcome!).

Community updates:

• A Season 1 donghua spoiler-free wiki alternative has been created by u/ZodiacalRelic, both in Italian and English. You can show this to donghua-only friends.

• Many RP releases for our main sub here: a Lost Reverence collaborative missions event, a map of the RP world and setting, and a RP tracking spreadsheet. (Big kudos to the RP mod team, including OddArrival, RavenFs, Gakamis, Bread/FabulousCrew, ChaosCreator, InvokerOfMysteries, SquareWasabi, and StrangeSocke.)

• The next RP cycle on r/LordOfTheMysteriesRP has officially begun with 20 backstories, and the first mission posted. (Seperate from the main sub RP, typically with a greater focus on lower sequences—you must find the Player Handbook yourself in order to join.)

• Several users such as u/Mr_Wormz continue to create and expand on LotM ttrpgs/DnD with a full set of rules (an older version/attempt here by u/ChainedAbyss), which are all under the Community Workshop flair (or can be searched via "ttrpg" in the sub). u/Rough_Ad_7760 was also hosting a campaign looking for adult players (though campaign is currently likely full).

• The LotMCraft minecraft mod by jakob/ u/Aggravating-Wear-496 looks to continue to have a lively audience, wars, and dedicated discord server.

• We are hosting a community crossover event with u/IsekaiOjisan—a mod over there said their community was too tame, so let's help out! Praise the Fool!

• The AI bots plaguing us have been vanquished. Big thank you to OriginParadox, LotM1394, RavenFs, TechnicalKage, BigAnxiety, and several others for reporting the bots. This allowed us to gather enough history and evidence for reddit to properly take action, especially as they all seemed to be sourced from the same person/group. Let us know if you see any more of them.

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Finally, reminders:

• Donghua-only viewers can go to r/LotMDonghua for stricter spoiler rules & donghua-only discussion

• NSFW content should be tagged, or go to r/MysteriesFolk for a generally more permissive sub. Explicit content should always go to r/AuroraOrder, the NSFW sub, and is not allowed here.

• >!Spoiler tag!< when in doubt and mark the volume source. Pay attention to the Volume/Season # in the post title before commenting.

• Reporting any issues helps us find them quicker and evaluate!

Due to all the community efforts, overall, the art credits enforcement again went far better than I expected, even if there was also a lot of effort along the way by many users. Thank you to everyone participating, and working hard to respect our fan artists and our other community members here. And seeing all the community RP, game mods, ttrpgs, events, is always so awesome.

Keep up the good work.

(And no, the children are not all banned, lol.)

Praise the Fool!

From this day forth, children will not be allowed on this subreddit.

The purge of children will begin. If you are under 18, I'm sorry, but you will be subjected to the purge. This purge is necessary for the sake of humanity. No, you don't count. Children lack the maturity to be called humans.

Line up here, and be ready for the firing squad. It will be a painless process. Yes, just line up here, one by one. The world will become a better place without all the children.

If you are a good christian child who doesn't curse, post excessive NSFW content, or images without credits, pray to our god the Fool, and perhaps you might be able to stay.

This may be your salvation.

Otherwise, prepare to say goodbye! The new rules are here~

/s

We have been having a serious problem with art credits in the community. Many LotM artists, especially on RedNote or Lofter, have quit and stopped producing LotM fanart because of this.

Reposting art without credits must be stopped.

This one will be a bit unpopular, but starting tomorrow, we will attempt a 3+ day trial period where image/video posts are only allowed for certain post flairs. These post flairs are:

• Art (please post all real art under here and mark the source or mark as OC—otherwise the post will be removed)
• AI: FAWM (all AI-generated images or videos should all be posted under this flair, and please write to what extent AI is used)
• Meme/Humor (for all the memes)
• MMORPG, Donghua, and Manhua discussion (visual mediums that inherently may require photos/videos to convey information)

If you do not know the art source, do not repost it. The overly casual reposting of art has been causing it to become even more difficult to reverse image source and find the original image credits.

This will also help with correctly identifying what is AI and not AI, especially due to recent community concerns.

You can find LotM art with credits on:

• "The Ultimate Fanart Google Drive" (also sorted by volume)
• sefira.it.com art gallery (also includes a LotM advance-in-pathways simulator—currently DOWN)
• Directly from Lofter, RedNote, Bilibili, sometimes Reddit such as the wonderful u/Kirei-Koto (do not repost unless the artist allows it)
• Use official art from wiki, donghua, or manhua

For Roleplay specifically: Since the RP is fast-paced, art/images will also still be blocked for 1-2 days for the Roleplay flair. This is to attempt a cultural reset for the art credits and to spread the news that credits must be included. On the 2nd or 3rd day of the trial, images will be re-allowed for RP as long as credits are consistently given. If many posts begin violating the art credits, then image permissions may be taken away.

Other notes or reminders for the community:

• Thank you all for rapidly making the transition to the new post title requirements. For the most part, this went far more smoothly and happened more rapidly than I had expected. You each played a part in making this happen.
• Please keep Spoilers and NSFW words or suggestions out of post titles. Always make sure to >!spoiler tag!< correctly; as this gives others the choice for whether to click or not. We want to be able to welcome newbies and people with different interests in. Repeated violations may result in a ban.
• Extreme or explicit NSFW content should go to r/AuroraOrder, the NSFW sub (warning: clicking may apparently cause trauma). r/MysteriesFolk is also somewhat more permissive than this sub, but don't go too far.
• A post flair reorganization may be coming up. Today, "Community Workshop" was added for ttrpg, Minecraft Mods, simulators, and other community-created content. Overly-generic historic flairs such as "Question", "Theory", etc may be removed. For now, these flairs will be moved to the bottom of the flair list to phase out usage. Please include any suggestions.
• Donghua-only's can also visit r/LotMDonghua, the donghua-only sub, for more restrictive spoiler rules.

Thank you all for keeping the community alive, and let's make sure to support our artists too.

Edit: There has been a hubbub about memes and react images in comments -- images of beaches, or fluffy cats, the official art, or screenshots from large anime/manga like JJK or One Piece are fine. Just make sure to credit the work of fan artists or artists. More clarifications here.

I have no one to rely on in life. It feels fucking lonely and sad. The one person I thought I could rely on abandoned me to die when he knew I was suicidal and in a bad place and also had Lyme's disease, and dumped all his responsibility on me. Now I've moved and for a year I literally don't know anyone

So many pretty words. "In it together." "Let your community help you" (that is 7 hours away and most certainly will not help). Building a house on my own to not be homeless, dealing with mold and rot, or heating and bad air due to the propane tank burning through the o2, the tiredness of having to do something every day ti keep surviving, stop the water from running out, the spilled moments of shit on your shoes. No one will be there for you when you need it the most. No one will be there to rely on or help you at the most critical moments. Just, no one will be there.

It feels fucking bad. If it weren't for my cat, I would just be dead by now, and no one knows that except me.

In this spirit of fighting >!spoilers!<, a couple of updates for post titles and flairs:

1. Due to the multimedia expansion and upcoming video games, post flairs now also include 'Manhua discussion', 'MMORPG discussion', and 'Card Game discussion'.

2. Donghua discussion now must include the Season or Episode number. I.e. [Donghua Ep2], [S1E4], [Season 1 Special Ep1] (as we know seasons/episodes will always refer to the donghua, and volumes/chapters will refer to the novel by default—manhua chapters should be labeled separately). The title formatting is the same as r/LotMDonghua (donghua-only sub). If the COI donghua ever releases, the post title would be [COI S4E2] accordingly, for example.

3. [LotM] alone has now been disallowed due to overuse, accidentally trapping newbies who didn't know the OP might spoiler the whole novel - [LotM/COI General] will also similarly be phased out slowly. You are still allowed to free text as [LotM ***] by putting anything after LotM/LoM as a pressure outlet, but please consider if this is actually necessary.

Put [V8] or [LotM End] by default if you have completed the novel. For roleplay, you can use [V8].

Finally, you no longer need to include [LotM] to indicate the first webnovel/book. Only for COI (Circle of Inevitability, the sequel series) posts will you have to prepend [COI V3], etc.

^(You can play with the regex here.)

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Examples

Novel discussion flair:

• [V8] Volume 8, completed end of LotM novel

• [LoM 627] for chapter 627 discussion

• [COI V4] I am reading don't spoil but what is this

• [COI End] use this if discussing any COI content

Donghua discussion flair:

• [S2] Season 2 news & speculations

• [S1E6] Loved the backstory

• [S1 Special Ep1] Wow

• [V8] cool donghua foreshadowing?

Manhua discussion flair:

• [Manhua ch12] How can art be so divine?

• [V1] how well does the manhua adapt volume 1

MMORPG discussion flair:

• [V8] this is some crazy gameplay

• [V0] I'm a total newbie to LotM, can I play this?

Card Game discussion flair:

• [V8] What even is this?

• [S1] Donghua-only here, this trailer looks cool

Other flairs (art, roleplay, meme/humor, question, poll, etc):

• [S2] I drew Klein

• [V8] Look at my kemiao plushie

• [V8] My awesome roleplay backstory

• [S1E3] beautiful art of Tingen

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What's the difference for flairs & titles?

Post titles reflect your knowledge level, whether through the donghua or the novel, and to what level it is acceptable for users to comment on your post without spoiler tagging. Use the novel title [V1] over the donghua [S1] by default if you are a novel reader.

Post flairs (the colorful bubbles) indicate what medium specifically you're talking about, i.e. novel, donghua, mmorpg, or card game discussion, or even roleplay.

Edge case: Please note that as the MMORPG chronologically takes place after LotM. When the game releases, 'MMO discussion' posts should usually be labeled [V8] and will allow LotM spoilers.

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Hello 👋 I'm back as a mod here, for those who may remember me. Warning, I may be meaner than my comrade u/StrangleShinobi. My main focus will be to restrict excessive NSFW and spoilers.

The post title changes have been soft-launched now, and will be hard-launched soon. Please let us know if there are any questions, bugs, or confusions!

As always, reporting or modmail'ing in does help mods find any issues sooner. Please don't hesitate to report any untagged spoilers, untagged NSFW, or excessive NSFW. :)