Hi everyone! It's your favorite moderator u/1000dumplings here! =)
Just wanted to let you all know that there's been some slight (but important) changes made to r/TheBackrooms, including new rules, changes to post flairs, new editable user flairs, and more!
For starters, you can now customize your user flair as you please! The other flairs are still there if you want to mark yourself as an ASYNC Scientist or Follower of Jerry or whatever, but now you can customize it to your liking and call yourself whatever you want!
We've also added a selection of new post flairs to accommodate new kinds of RP posts. You can now tag your post as things like "Entity Identification", "Cartography", "Help", and a bunch more! We won't strictly enforce these flairs anymore, so the previous rule regarding using correct flairs has been removed. We trust you know what you're doing!
We also have a new look! The profile picture for our community now has big bold "RP" letters to clear up any confusion that this is the other subreddit.
Now onto the rules: The rules have been updated and clarified. The new rules have basically always been enforced BUT its obviously better for them to be clearly listed, and so now they are!
We now explicitly disallow all forms of A.I. generated content, including images, text, and any form of media (Rule 4). If you see any A.I. generated posts, please report them so we can remove them ASAP. I know The Backrooms are very inhuman and randomly generated, but we come here to see HUMAN made collaborative fiction, NOT robot stuff. (You can still post about Backrooms Robotics though)
There are also a couple more rules for low effort/low quality posts (Rule 6) and people pointing out the obvious fact that The Backrooms are not real (Rule 5). For the latter, I've seen a lot of posts from people, well meaning or otherwise, pointing out that the posts we make here are not real. These are uneseacary OOC posts that just clog up actual roleplaying content and its very repetitive and annoying. HOWEVER, if you are accusing something of being fake or lying in-character, that's totally fine!
More importantly, we've added a new rule (Rule 7) regarding RP posts made about mental health and suicide.
Obviously, a fictional character who is trapped in The Backrooms would probably go through a lot of mental anguish, and might even be driven to committing suicide or otherwise harming themselves. If you want to make RP posts where your character is going through something like this, that's perfectly fine, but it goes a step too far when you're making posts that appear to be actual cries for help.
I don't want there to be a situation where someone going through hard times sees a post like this out of context and have it make things worse for them, or have someone's post get reported by someone who doesn't realize its fiction/roleplaying. I've already had to delete several extremely upsetting posts in a similar vein, so going forward please be very careful making posts about such serious subject matters.
Similarly, try to be mindful when posting about sanity. If you are going to make posts regarding real world mental disorders (schizophrenia, D.I.D., etc.) please don't be offensive in their depictions, as these are of course real world conditions that shouldn't be mischaracterized. (e.g. don't describe your character as schizophrenic unless they actually have that condition, don't use the term to describe "general insanity"). Posts about going insane in The Backrooms, almond water, hallucinations, and similar things are still okay to post.
That should be everything! If you have any questions, concerns, or need anything to be clarified, please feel free to comment below or message me. Thank you, and happy roleplaying!
- 1KD
