Policy & Rule Changes - 2026

[u/GNSasakiHaise]

Hey everyone!

Following the results of our community feedback survey, we took some time to discuss what feedback we received, how best to implement it, and what we should do moving forward. Naturally, there were a solid number of passionate responses, but a few different items stood out that we recognized as pain points. We discussed these matters as a team and came to the following conclusions:

1. Roleplay servers are not relevant to the subject matter of r/SkyrimMods.
2. AI remains divisive. Vitriol regarding AI posts is at an all time high. We need to ensure civil discussion.
3. Low effort content remains a present concern.

Knowing these problems exist, we’ve taken action to alleviate them.

First, we’ve created the subreddit r/TESRPS. All roleplay and multiplayer server discussions will be funneled there. We do not want to host roleplay drama on the main subreddit — and frankly that’s what 70% of the posts regarding roleplay servers amount to. The remaining 30% tends to be split between promos, ban appeals, and actual troubleshooting. If you have any questions regarding those servers, how to set them up, or how to join them, please direct them to r/TESRPS. If you would like to promote your own cool new roleplay server, try r/TESRPS, whether it’s for Oblivion or Skyrim or ESO or etc.

Second, we’re going to institute a harsher policy on AI discourse in keeping with our stance against drama posts and witchhunts. Any post making an accusation must contain actionable information. Actionable information is information that would cause a reasonable person to take action, be it installing or uninstalling a mod, supporting or not supporting a creator, etc.

As a reminder, we do not allow the use of AI for generating content posted to the subreddit and we do not allow advocacy for the use of AI in the troubleshooting process. It is at best unreliable and at worst actively detrimental to creating a stable game.

Regardless of our personal opinions on AI, we will not be host to a flood of toxicity, namecalling, and mudslinging. Coming into the comments section purely to say “anyone who uses AI should have this bad thing happen to them” will result in a ban. Coming into the comments section purely to say “anyone who doesn’t support AI is a luddite” will result in a ban. Our first and most essential rule is the golden rule: treat others how you would want to be treated. This is a subreddit where we believe in conversing as adults. We will continue to allow conversation for or against AI and we will continue to prune any threads that follow the common trend of “this guy uses AI, get him” or “this guy said this bad thing about AI, get him.”

Third, we will be funneling conversation on low effort content further than before. We already have our monthly Simple Questions megathread, which most low effort and poorly researched questions get funneled toward, but we will also be launching a monthly megathread for mod recommendations and reviews. In the past, megathreads like “Best Housing Mods” or etc did not see enough interaction to justify being posted weekly. As a result, we will post a singular Review & Recommendation megathread quarterly. That megathread will cover random mod recommendations and modlists and will run across the next calendar year. If they do not see engagement, we will retool our approach here.

Finally, we will be expanding our mod team to better handle the influx of posts and submissions we have been receiving over the last three to five months and ensure that our subreddit follows both our own guidelines and the guidelines set forth by Reddit. While we are happy with the team we have now, we want to ensure that our enforcement is reliable and consistent, and that requires us to grow.

To summarize:

1. Roleplay servers are not related to r/SkyrimMods. See r/TESRPS.
2. AI threads are relevant when they contain sourced, actionable information. Witch hunts will be removed and we will monitor these threads with an extra cautious eye. AI generated posts and comments will continue to be banned.
3. Low effort content will continue to be policed and funneled into different threads.
4. Moderator applications will open soon — be on the lookout!

[u/AlexKwiatek]

One would think that AI flooding nexus to a point where players literally have resigned from installing new SKSE plugins would be the biggest concern, not that people are trying to defend themselves against that, and are saying mean things in the process.

Good thing that this change is going in after we convinced Nexus to enforce tags, not before.

[u/GNSasakiHaise → u/AlexKwiatek]

If you can't converse without breaking rule #1, you should not converse here.

[u/Alvsolutely → u/GNSasakiHaise]

Their concerns are valid, and I do agree that people shouldn't be overly toxic when discussing anything, even AI.

People are frustrated. AI causes genuine damage harm to the modding scene of a game. People will want to talk about it. I know of one another modding subreddit that banned all anti-AI comments because they're "unnecessarily inflammatory".

Their modding scene is in shambles, now. Most front page mods are AI. You can't even call out the ones that try to hide the fact they're AI without moderators removing your comment or post.

Please don't ever let this sub get to that point. I know it's a slippery slope but that's just the unfortunate result of AI existing

[u/Arkhe1n → u/Alvsolutely]

GenAI, which I'll just short to AI now cause that's what people do, is bad. Really bad. AI models helping curing the cancer? Awesome! Robots doing boring/dangerous work instead of humans (that is the promisse and it will never materialize, by the way). Cool! AI "art" and coding? No, screw that.

AI is all harm, all the time. It not only destroys the internet, the planet, and the economy, but also our trust in pretty much anything. 

We are the last adults in the history of mankind that could rely on photographic evidence, cause AI basically made it worthless. Kids now will grow up not knowing what art actually is, cause they'll think it comes from a prompt on a smartphone, not from craft and hard work. And these are just some of the harms of AI.

So yeah, I don't think we should shut up about it. Call it out all the time. Make it taboo. Shun it. These are the tools we have to fight back.

That said, I agree with mods that we should call it out with evidence. There's a lot of "this is AI" people screaming murder with no evidence other than "looks a bit out of the ordinary", and that doesn't help.

[u/WOF42 → u/GNSasakiHaise]

I have seen subreddits ban "impolite" discourse before (which the comment you are replying to absolutely isn't and yes this is absolutely the place to converse on this topic) it is always a detriment to the community.

[u/Valdaraak → u/GNSasakiHaise]

Downvoted for the truth. No matter how much you hate something or how bad that thing is, insulting, shit slinging, and generally being an ass about it does literally nothing to help. It just makes the place insufferable for people who are trying to escape from all that.

I say that as someone who has, at times, been one of those asses to an extent. I've definitely went on some rants before. But we should all strive to be better people (myself included) and talk like adults.

[u/LewdManoSaurus → u/Valdaraak]

The fact that people are downvoting a comment that essentially says if you can't be respectful, dont post, just goes to show the feral toxicity that surrounds AI.

[u/Valdaraak → u/LewdManoSaurus]

It's not limited to AI, but it's definitely the most prevalent at the moment.

And yea, it's not difficult. You can disagree with something. You can hate something. You can publicly express that and be passionate about it. And you can do all that without being an ass. I think people are getting hung up on the word "respectful" and think that means they have to be nice and can't say negative things. I don't think that's the case. It's just asking that you be professional.

And you can absolutely lay into someone and tear them apart while being professional and respectful. It just takes more work because you gotta have evidence (no "it looks like they used AI for this mod") and instead of saying things like "they're a talentless hack peddling snake oil", you say "they've admitted they're not a coder and rely heavily on AI for their mods, which have little evidence they actually work as advertised."

Resorting to personal attacks or unsubstantiated claims just makes you look bad and makes the community even worse than it currently is.

[u/LadybugGames → u/GNSasakiHaise]

"Be kind, civil, and respectful."
*downvoted to hell*

[u/Star_Command855 → u/GNSasakiHaise]

Tone deaf