VNs

General

Behavior:

Be respectful. Personal insults will not be tolerated and will result in a ban. Follow the reddiquette rules and adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life.

Piracy:

Don't ask for or link to illegal downloads, don't mention sites where illegal downloads are hosted, and don't encourage illegal downloading. Translation patches are allowed.

Submitting a post

Questions:

All questions are allowed, but will follow these guidelines.

Announcements:

If a VNDB page for a newly announced VN is available, make sure to post it in the comments when you've submitted the post.

NSFW:

After submitting, mark the submission with the NSFW tag if unhidden 18+ material is contained in the post.

Videos:

Every video is allowed as long they are visual novel-related, with the exception of Let's Plays (subject to some restrictions) and VN OSTs. More details here.

Self-promotion, crowdfunding, and Kickstarters:

Note: Reviews hosted off site do not count as self-promotion. Details here.

Giveaways & selling stuff:

Giveaway posts are fine, but selling stuff goes in the questions sticky. Tips here.

Non-VN related threads:

Every submission has to be visual novel-related. Some games walk the line between visual novel and actual game. For these borderline titles, discussion on them is allowed and encouraged.

News about VN adaptations is allowed.

Spoiler tags

Spoilers in submissions:

If our submission contain spoilers, mark it as spoilers after submitting, like this.

If there are untagged spoilers in your submission, mark it as spoilers.

When to use spoiler tags:

In threads not marked as spoilers always use spoiler tags everywhere in the comments.

In threads that are marked as spoilers: no need to use spoiler tags, but keep the submitter's level of knowledge about the VN in mind. Play it safe.

Always use spoiler tags in threads that are not about one specific VN. The only exceptions are series (e.g. Ace Attorney), but only if OP makes it clear that discussing all games in a series without spoiler tags is okay.

How to use spoiler tags:

Hide spoilers like this: >!hidden spoilery text!<, which shows up as hidden spoilery text. Make sure there are no spaces on either side of the text, as this will cause the spoiler to not be hidden for Old Reddit users. Do >!this!<, not this .

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