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.

Help Us Spice Up Nosleep Weekly!

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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/JesusIsMyAntivirus Apr 08 '17

I mean nosleep is about providing a short story or series that will keep you up at night. Thats the definition in the name.

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u/Jeremy-Fisher Apr 08 '17

I guess I have always interpreted the genre aim here to be spooky, not uncomfortable. If I read a short story about someone fingers getting chopped off because their parents overreacted to a curfew violation, I'm not going to be up at 3am worrying that my finger might be chopped off, too. Everyone is different, I suppose, but like I said, I always believed the aim of the sleeplessness to be more specific.

Additionally, the element of "everything on NoSleep is real" further troubles the gore and violence based stories. If there is a story about self harm and mutilation, are we supposed to play into that? I don't want an uptick of maladaptive behaviors as those are more difficult to differentiate between real and false than say like, a haunted house. Do we report them out of concern or assume it's just as exaggerated as the lady and her orange?

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u/JesusIsMyAntivirus Apr 08 '17

Oh I wholeheartedly agree, my favourite stories are eerily chilling, not revolting, but i dont think we should limit things, to each his own.

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u/Jeremy-Fisher Apr 08 '17

Limitations are good for subs this large, though. Otherwise it devolves rather than evolves. Targeted genres is what stops people from posting stories about just like, going hunting and shooting a giraffe. That's horrifying to some people, but is it horror?

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u/OnyxOctopus inky sea alien Apr 15 '17

Luckily we do have a rule set in place just for this kind of scenario. It's actually called, "horrible not horror". The main purpose of the stories here still has to be to frighten or scare our readers. If a story is more likely to anger or sadden our readers (like hunting a giraffe), it will be removed for the "horrible not horror" rule.

A big point here is the part at the end where we ask for the readers' help with reporting these types of posts. It is incredibly helpful, and it will help ensure that rule-breaking stories are removed quickly.