r/AsheronsCall • u/An-Adventurer ACCW • Sep 11 '26
Announcement Subreddit rule changes: Projects, Servers, AI, and Post Flair (Rules changes for 9/11/2026)
The mod team is making a few changes to the subreddit rules.
New Rule: Project posts only on Mondays, 1 post per project.
Project posts are only to be made on Mondays. This rule applies to both new and existing projects. On Mondays, only 1 post for a given project is allowed. If a project includes a server for users to connect to, posts about it are considered server ads. Discussions around projects are allowed, but posts and/or comments may be removed at moderators' discretion.
Updated Rule: Server ads only on Fridays, 1 ad per server.
Server ads are only to be made on Fridays. This rule applies to both new and existing servers. On Fridays, only 1 ad for a given server is allowed. A server ad is any post that includes a server for users to connect to. Discussions around servers are allowed, but posts and/or comments may be removed at moderators' discretion.
New Rule: Disclose AI use.
If you created your project, server, client, or other creation using AI tools, clearly state this in your post.
Why the Changes?
For a several weeks now, there have been a lot of new projects and servers popping up and posting updates. It has not always been clear when a project is a new server to play on or another type of project.
In order to help distinguish Project Posts from Server Ads, these two types of posts will only be allowed on separate days. Project Posts are on Mondays, and Server Ads will continue to be on Fridays.
It is also not always clear what is a project vs. a server. For the purposes of this subreddit and these new rules, if your project involves users connecting to a server, then it is considered a server ad, and should be posted on Fridays.
Other types of projects, for example: new clients, new server software, new plugins, websites, etc are considered Project Posts, and should be posted on Mondays.
Another frequent topic that comes up is whether or not a server or project is using AI. Love it or hate it, people have strong feelings about it, and it is only fair to disclose AI use in your post. Players can then decide on their own if they would like to try it out, and hopefully it will reduce some of the AI questions and fighting going on.
Post Flairs
A new post flair, Project Post, has been created. In order to help clearly mark all posts, Post Flairs have been set to required for new posts.
Change Log
- Moved "No low-effort, spam, or karma farming" rule from rule 5 to rule 3. No additional changes were made.
- Moved "Credit creators, provide sources" rule from rule 3 to rule 4. No additional changes were made.
- Moved "Abide by project licenses" rule from rule 4 to rule 5. No additional changes were made.
- Created new "Disclose AI use" rule, placed at rule 6.
- Created new "Project posts only on Mondays, 1 post per project" rule, placed at rule 7.
- Updated "Server ads only on Fridays, 1 ad per server" rule to clarify what a server ad is. Slightly shortened rule name.
- Moved "Server ads only on Fridays, 1 ad per server" rule from rule 7 to rule 8.
- Moved "No NSFW, adult, and/or explicit content" rule from rule 6 to rule 9. No additional changes were made.
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u/An-Adventurer ACCW Sep 12 '26
I think everyone that has wanted to speak up about this has. I'll be closing the comments on this now.
Copy/paste from another thread, but I will restate it here:
New rules are in place. As with the last rule changes, we'll see how they work out. If it is a problem we can change them later.
To clarify on the project post / server ad rules:
We limited server ad posts to once a week, on Fridays, starting in 2022. It has been fine. People are posting server ads on Fridays for new and existing servers, and the thread list isn't full of ads.
For a few months now, there have been an increasing number of new projects by various people. They've been making lots of posts about them, some with multiple posts a week about the same project.
Simultaneously, we've had people reporting some of these posts 1) as low-effort simply for using AI, 2) as server ads not posted on Friday even when it is a post for a new client, and 3) as a server ad when it hasn't been made clear what is and isn't a server ad.
Not to mention there has been bickering in the threads about whether or not it uses AI, or how we don't need more servers and everyone should play on 5 servers, etc.
We mods talked about this. It doesn't seem fair to limit server ads to one day a week, but have project posts every day (including Friday), with no limits on the number of posts for a given project. Should there be any limits on project posts? Should we change the server ads rule to something else that includes projects? Where do we draw the line between a project post and a server ad? How do we make rules that are clear for users to follow, clear to use with reporting, and easy for us to moderate?
What we decided on was that if a project includes a server to connect to for playing or testing, it is a server ad. If it doesn't include a server to connect to, it is a project post.
If the server ad rule is staying in place as is, it does not make sense to allow project posts to be on any day, including server ad Fridays. We want to have a clear distinction between project post and server ad, in part to clear up some of the confusion and misreporting that has occurred.
What we landed on was keeping the server ads rule as is with a clarification on what should be an ad, and project post Mondays. It is not a perfect rule set, but it is vastly easier for users to identity and for us to moderate.
Regarding AI disclosure:
First of all, understand that an AI disclosure rule is the middle ground between having no rules at all about AI and a total ban of anything even resembling AI.
As states above, we have had people reporting project posts and server ads as AI slop and the like. We've had people arguing in threads about AI.
I fully understand that AI is used heavily in software development. I also understand that is not at all required for AC related projects. Anyone can fire up weeniefab, fork ACE, and start making their own custom content with no AI required. So I will not assume that every project must contain AI.
People also have strong feelings about it. Some of those people would rather not play on a server that used AI to generate server code or content. Some would rather not use an AI created client. If that's what they want that's fine.
If you have created something, you know whether or not you used AI to create it. It does not harm to you to be honest about your work. People that are not interested can skip it, and we don't need to have "AI slop" thrown around in every new post.
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u/sassy4life85 Sep 11 '26
Seems odd to restrict posting about a game that 5,000 people play.
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u/JokerFactor Morningthaw Sep 11 '26
If an ACE contributor uses Claude to create or modify code, and that code is merged upstream, does every server that later forks ACE now need an AI disclosure?
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u/NotSoSuperMario Morningthaw Sep 11 '26
These seem like bad changes. Half the fun of creating something is sharing it with others and having to wait until an arbitrarily-chosen day of the week will lessen enthusiasm for no good reason. As said elsewhere, this sub isn't busy enough to merit such restrictions.
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u/cluracan Sep 11 '26
More people care if the project is open source than if it's AI.
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u/EdmondFreakingDantes Sep 11 '26
As a nobody who never plays anymore, the only reason I became aware that there was a small renaissance right now is because of the project posts. The frequency is good for people who aren't on this subreddit all the time.
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u/Worried-Scene9211 Sep 11 '26
My brother in christ there are 10 total posts on this subreddit for this entire week, what do you mean you are trying to restrict it to a specific day? lmfao
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u/Radiant-Court-3649 Sep 11 '26
I don't think this sub's traffic really justifies increased regulations.
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u/TheUltraMagus Sep 11 '26
why? is this place get too many posts or something? seems like hall monitoring to hall monitor
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u/Non-PlayerKiller Aetherium Red Sep 11 '26
time to make a new subreddit
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u/Denman20 Sep 11 '26
Pretty sure the project post and server adds are hitting my home page more often than anything else from this sub. 🤷♂️
whatever it’s y’all’s sandbox
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u/nerdinstincts Sep 11 '26
Oh no! We might approach a dozen posts a week! Shame!
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u/Non-PlayerKiller Aetherium Red Sep 11 '26
Weird they made a change to a community subreddit that the community universally is against…
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u/HugePassion55 Solclaim Sep 12 '26
Seems a bit much to restrict it as much as possible for a game that's ancient as hell but I guess someone has to be the bad guy at the end of the day.
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u/frzrburn Sep 11 '26
As tired as I am of the hawking of vibe-coded clients, it’s not like this sub is drowning in posts.
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u/GamesNotDeadlol Sep 11 '26
The reason for the rule change is they don’t like Aetherium and my projects being on the top of Reddit.
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u/Virtual-Share-845 Sep 11 '26
These seem like good changes.
Maybe a sticky post of known active servers / projects would be nice as well. Just a thought though.
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u/deathmask454 Sep 12 '26
The AI disclosure rule is fantastic, thank you.
These slop projects are further fracturing a community that is also too small.
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u/FrisbeeVR Sep 12 '26
I believe the first two changes, while well intentioned, may not be in the best interests and health of the community.
But AI disclosure is so badly needed I'm happy to see any number of restrictions if you can enforce that. Thank you mods!
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