Hello, fellow buddies. I'm Cupcake, also known as Chef, and I want to personally apologize to all of you for the misguided and, quite frankly, unacceptable execution of the new changes of the subreddit. When I originally made this subreddit, 6 years ago, I envisioned a subreddit and community where you could find other buddies to connect with on a more personal level. Something you couldn't find on other subreddits at the time. As we've grown to 40k+ members and growing, we've seen a lot of changes in terms of; the attitudes towards Minecraft, mod team changes, introductions of certain platforms and an explosion in communities being built around Minecraft! The rules we introduced and way we did things definitely gave a lot of you a bad impression of what we are trying to facilitate here.
Everything we tried to implement, everything I personally advocated for were always in good faith to keep the original spirit and vision of the subreddit, to keep it focused on the goal it was always trying to achieve. I realize now that I made the mistake of not trusting the community here to make the best decisions for itself and for that, I ask for your forgiveness. Going forward, I promise to be more transparent with all of you. And with all of that said. I introduce you to the new changes that will make this subreddit much more enjoyable going forward. First, tags are now flairs.
Tags were half-baked when we introduced them, they are now incorporated into the flairs now. Please use these flairs appropriately in order for people to better find your posts and for you to better find communities and groups that might interest you. New reddit allows you to sort posts by flairs, not quite sure old reddit does. Please use new reddit for the best experience here. Second, no more approval system.
You gave us your feedback and we listened. The approval system, no matter how much it allows us to better see what is posted, is flawed and I recognize that. You should be allowed to post as you see fit without having to wait for one of us to maybe approve you, and you potentially missing out on people even seeing your posts at all. It's gone, we will never do it again. Third, third-party names(discord, psn, xbox, etc) are allowed and links to your builds are okay in the post description, not comments.
People want to see what these communities might look like, they deserve to see what potentially might be in store when they join. And third party names are allowed to be posted. You don't deserve to be limited to reddit dms, we don't know how often you use reddit and check it so it doesn't seem fair. Fourth, the cooldown to post is now 7 days from 15.
This was a given, way too much time for people to potentially join. Please don't post more than once in a 7 day period. Fifth, and most importantly, in order to post here, your community must be private and whitelisted. No total user caps.
It was already a rule to make it private and whitelisted but now, we won't enforce you to keep your community artificially low. It's an unenforceable rule that isn't our place to police. All we ask is that you only post your community if it fits the nature of the subreddit, the spirit of this subreddit relies on good faith on the part of our users and community at large.
Please look over our revised rules and continue to share all your feedback and I promise that we will listen to you. Thank you for your time if you read through this, and I look forward to growing with all of you, my buddies.
Your Buddy,
/u/CupcakesAreGayMuffin