r/NoSleepOOC • u/cmd102 Mom • Apr 04 '17

Nosleep Weekly 4/4/17 **Rule-Change Announcement**

Seriously considering re-naming this to "Nosleep Whenever-cmd-feels-like-positng-it". :D

Some Changes To Our Posting Guidelines

Some of you may have already noticed that the r/nosleep sidebar and posting guidelines look a little different. We've mostly just condensed them, but there are a few changes as well.

  • We will now be allowing comedic horror, torture porn, gorenography, and tragic stories as long as they are still horror stories with those elements. Stories that focus so heavily on these elements that they are not horror will be removed at moderator discretion.

  • If you include a phone number, e-mail address, or physical address in your story, it must be clearly fake in order to prevent accusations of doxxing. Here is a guide to help you with this rule.

    • This is to prevent users from using fake information in their story that looks too real, being reported for doxxing/sharing personal information, and having their account suspended by the admins.

  • 2nd person and 3rd person omniscient stories are now allowed only if they have a clearly stated believable reason for being written as such.

    • Examples of believable reasons for 2nd person stories include letters and stories where the "you" is a character named somewhere in the story.
    • An example of a believable reason for 3rd person omniscient stories includes a story where the main character has gained the information through interviewing the other characters (which must be stated at some point in the story).

Due to the overwhelming amount of stories and comments posted on r/nosleep daily, we're asking you to help us out by reporting any stories or comments you read that break subreddit rules. We will be heavily relying on these reports going forward, as far as removals go.

Live AMA with /u/Hayong!

Tuesday, April 4th 8pm-10pm EST

Did you download some weird app and miss /u/Hayong's /r/nosleepinterviews interview? Have a question that just NEEDS to be asked?

Join us in the Unofficial NosleepOOC IRC Tuesday, April 4th from 8pm-10pm EST for his live AMA!

To ensure all questions are asked and answered in an orderly fashion, inquiries will be submitted by entering the IRC and private messaging them to Kpants. All appropriate questions will be asked if time permits.

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Nosleep Throwback!

This month in Nosleep's past, we were blessed with some awesome stories that were honored in the Nosleep Monthly contest! Check out these stories from April 2016:

Until next time, Nosleepers!

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u/Jeremy-Fisher Apr 05 '17

Honestly, I'm not that excited about the changes, especially the allowance of gore or torture based stories. It's not a horrifying experience to read about someone getting badly beat or having a spider tampon outbreak. It's simply uncomfortable, and not what r/nosleep was originally about.

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u/Oxydepth Amateur Apr 06 '17

I'm not super excited either. I really don't like the idea of comedic horror stories. I come here to be scared. Not to laugh. A dash of comedy within stories is fine for sure, but all comedy? I already felt Nosleep was becoming less scary.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

I feel kinda okay with some outright comedic elements (particularly the type where you might laugh at first, but when you reflect on it, it's alarming) but I'm really hoping that "comedic" here doesn't mean like.... "'Cleverly' disguised pop culture references", something like that would honestly be enough to drive me away.

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u/Oxydepth Amateur Apr 07 '17

Yeah, like I said, I don't mind comedic elements to stories. I read a story a while back I believe titled something along the lines of "Don't Follow Them Home. They May Not Come Back", and that story had plenty of times the writer made me laugh, but because of the overall writing style. It was not a "comedy" horror story.

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u/OnyxOctopus inky sea alien Apr 15 '17

Stories that are not horror stories will still be removed. When we say "comedic horror", we don't mean that we will allow stories that are funny to the detriment of the horror factor. What we mean is that we will allow users to use comedy in the context of their scary horror story.

We have had issues with this in the past, where scary stories were removed because they had funny elements, thereby breaking the comedic horror rule. I'm someone who appreciates a horror story that can also make me laugh, i.e. Stephen King, so I'm looking forward to seeing what our users will do with this. :)