Addressing trolls coming into the shogi community
Hey everyone, Riko here. I don't usually take a heavy hand in moderating this place, and I don't like making actual moderation announcements. However, I've been observing a trend of people who come into the subreddit from outside the community, often presenting their new idea for an internationalized set. They come in, drop their idea, argue about it, and then never actually participate in anything else. I've had enough.
To be clear, there is nothing wrong with coming up and sharing your piece designs, and I encourage it. But I will no longer allow people to show up, give an AI-written essay about why it's the piece set's fault that we don't have more players, and then leave. This is a very small community, yet it's extremely common for people to show up, accuse us of gatekeeping, wag their finger, and not actually play the game.
Going forward, if I get the sense that your only purpose for posting in this subreddit is to troll, you will be banned.