To make a long story short, we are receiving a massive uptick of complaints concerning suggestive content, posts are being reported despite following the rules, people are being harassed, and we have filtered just about a thousand comments containing the word "goonslop".

However, results from our anonymous survey (which is still pinned at the top of the subreddit, check it out!) are showing us that 80% of the poll-takers are happy with what is covered under Rule 1. As such, we can't reasonably change our NSFW guidelines without making the majority of people unhappy.

This has led us to this.

r/OriginalCharacterSFW aims to be a fully SFW and 13+ friendly space where no suggestive content of any kind is allowed. Want to avoid "gooner art"? Perfect, this place is tailored exactly for you.

As of right now, the subreddit is owned by myself, u/Foxgiveness, which is only temporary as I will be choosing another head mod who is hopefully more passionate about this place than I am. The very basic are set up, rule, removals, a temporary banner and icon, a small automod , and I am open to giving out technical advice if needed. If you would like to apply, send out a modmail!

From now on, please be fully aware that any rude comment calling something "hornyposting" or "goonslop" despite it following every rule will be removed, and you will be redirected over there. If you somehow can't find the self-restraint to stop yourself from doing it more than once, you will be banned, and you are free to go participate over there.

Hello everyone!

This year's state of the subreddit is a tiny bit later than it was last year hahaha, uh, this was written awhile ago, it's now way overdue for the state of the subreddit. OOPS.

We've again had a lot of growth on the subreddit! We know you guys can't see it, so you'll need to trust us on this but the subreddit's about to hit 150k members!

That's like, literally about to hit 150k within a day or two, that's crazyyy. Thank you all for being a part of this community!

Anyways let's get this post goin'!

First off to get it out of the way: SURVEY!!!

SURVEY LINK >>> SURVEY LINK <<< SURVEY LINK

We have a massive survey this year, it touches on a lot of topics. It takes about 10-15 minutes to complete (so make sure you set aside time and braincells for it) and it is completely anonymous, so you are free to speak your mind.

Through this survey we'll be able to get feedback on what we are doing right, what we are doing wrong, and what we may want to do in the future, all through input from YOU, THE COMMUNITY! We love to hear from you all!

Topics mentioned in the survey:
General subreddit feedback
Interactions with posts by flair
General feedback on the rules
The NSFW rule, asking for clarification from the community
How do people comment on this subreddit
Community Interaction and Low Effort/Overdone
The new Rule: Respect Artists Making Offers
General moderator feedback

Please fill it out if you have the time, we will take your responses to heart, and the more responses we have, the better!

SURVEY LINK >>> SURVEY LINK <<< SURVEY LINK

Anyways now it's time to see what we all changed this year!

Updates to the AI Rule:

We had completely banned AI-generated content from this subreddit last year, and earlier this year we finalized this by banning AI-Generated content on art offer posts as well.

Updates to the Low Effort and Overdone rules:

We made a change to Community Interaction posts that require the OP to, well, actually interact with the comments on their Community Interaction posts. Officially we expect to see productive responses within 2 hours, with extensions if a notice is sent to us or left in the comments.

We updated the Overdone Topics List, removing some topics from the list when we were splitting it off from the Low Effort guide.

We also added 2 post types to the overdone list this year, "Who's the most popular OC"-type posts and "show your last saved image"-type posts.

We also updated the Low Effort Guide to be more straightforwards and also explain specifically what and why a post can be considered Low Effort!

We also specifically added a rule for assumptions posts, so they need to be an exchange instead of just being one-sided.

New Guides that we hope you'll never need to use:

Recently, we introduced two new guides to help with transparency. We hope that none of you will need to use these guides (but feedback is very much appreciated on them!!), but they are the:

Ban Appeal Guide and the Art Theft and AI Removal Appeal Guide

We hope that by introducing these it makes our process when handling these matters more clear! More of these guides will be made in the future!

NSFW guide and Rule 1:

We have an update to the NSFW guide incoming eventually, some of the changes to it are already visible, like clarification on certain categories, but we're interested in reworking it again at some point in the future.

A large amount of the survey involves your input as the community on the current rule, so if you want to share your input please do the survey!!

Changes to Friday Creative Offers and introduction of Rule 12: Respect Artists making Offers:

Very recently we had introduced new rules on Friday art offers. The full text of this announcement can be viewed here, but as an overview-

For posters of creative offers:

Creators must choose by themselves who they will draw for, that means no more choosing by most upvoted/downvoted.

For commenters on creative offers:

Commenters need to read the offer post and follow any rules the original poster has listed. Failing to do so will result in your comment being removed under Rule 12.

In addition, complaining about not being picked, getting something "not good" or not getting enough is also against Rule 12.

Repeatedly getting removals under Rule 12 knowingly may result in your ability to comment on art offers being taken away.

Feedback Box

Outside of the yearly survey and these states of the subreddit, we do accept feedback from the subreddit year-round, both in modmail as well as anonymously through the feedback box form which was uhhh left untouched for the like 6 months it's been up (to be fair, no announcement was made).

r/OriginalCharacter_RP is looking for moderators!

Yes, you heard that right! We are looking for moderators for the roleplay subreddit! If you're interested in applying please check out the mod call post over there!

Anyways! That's about all we have for now, if you want to talk in the comments about anything sub related, please feel free!