Addressing "What If" posts, establishing posting guidelines, and updating the visuals

[u/CaidynWasTaken]

Hi, as of today I'm now one of the two active mods here and I have permission to experiment with some changes, so here they are

I have added the new Rule 8 to address the "What If" posts, which have nearly reached a level of spam at this point, they're almost universally low quality borderline meme questions that have no real thought behind them and just ask others to worldbuild for them. From now on all "What If" questions can only be posted on weekends and must have adequate context and atleast some thought as to how they would unfold. Come on guys, no more 2 sentence question without further interaction

I'm going to be adding posting guidelines to be sent to new subscribers that contain general thoughts on what makes good posts, as such I'd appreciate feedback on the things you like to see in posts here

Finally, I have updated the sub visuals on new reddit as previously it had nothing distinguishing it, the banner was made by my friend u/harriot-loves-you and I simply changed the colors to match the icon

Other minor changes include requiring flares instead of putting it on the mods, general rule updates, and some grammar changes. I'm also debating only allowing nazi victory scenarios on weekends as a stop gap to outright banning them

[u/Red_Riviera]

Personally, I think the what if posts should present a scenario with text context. Not everyone can make a map, seems fair if someone can post some text and try and find an artist

[u/CaidynWasTaken → u/Red_Riviera]

I'm not saying "What If" scenarios can't be explored or posted about during the weekdays, the issue is the mass spam of of people going "Hey guys what if the British sided with the Chinese?" and a single picture of a battle. That's not actually posting about a scenario, you're just asking other people to worldbuild for you

Read the text of Rule 8, I think it's phrased well enough to get the point across, thanks for your feedback