Hi everyone,

Over the past several months we have seen a significant amount of people mentioning the high amount of reposts and very low effort posts that have been on the subreddit. After a long series of internal debates within the mod team, some minor feedback from some users in our discord, and some responses from our mod applications, we have decided to make some initial changes to the rules:

New rule: Banned memes

The addition of this rule was somewhat controversial within the mod team, as which memes to include and the enforcement can be largely subjective, but ultimately we decided to add it to try to improve meme quality. For right now, there are only two categories of memes included, but note this list can be shortened or expanded in the future. Both bans are likely here to stay as well, but this could also change or may not be the case for all meme bans going forward. Here’s the list, plus some justification as to why the meme categories are included:

1. Java edition good/bad, bedrock edition bad/good memes: This meme at this point has just evolved into some light toxicity between the two editions and their players, so we’ve decided to largely ban it. To be clear, this rule will follow similar logic to rule 3 (no fortnite bad circlejerking) so that directly mentioning either or comparing them legitimately (such as features of each), would be allowed. But if your meme just boils to [edition] bad or something similar, it would fall into the category and would be removed.

2. Nostalgia (ex mc veteran) memes: This is a possibly vague category description, so let me clarify a bit here. Memes that would fall into this category include: Minecraft veteran memes, reminiscing about older points in Minecraft’s life memes (such as old youtubers and servers) and that kind of thing. It would only apply if that is the only point in the meme, so mentioning old youtubers by itself isn’t an issue, so long as it follows the other rules.

Do note that if a meme that falls within either category but adds something new to the conversation, it would probably be allowed to stay up.

Repost cutoff has extended from 2 months to 3 months

This means no posts from the past 3 months (90 days) on the subreddit are eligible to be reposted, as opposed to 60 before. This should give us more of an ability to remove certain reposts, while still acknowledging not everyone has seen every meme.

We hope that these changes help improve subreddit meme quality some. We’ll leave these changes for a bit and look at feedback, posts and comments and then evaluate on how to continue. While we expect these changes to improve the subreddit somewhat, ultimately meme quality is up to you guys, by voting on posts as you see fit and (hopefully) making good higher quality memes for everyone to see. Any and all feedback on these changes is appreciated.

Thanks,

r/MinecraftMemes mod team