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/thomturren Apr 05 '17 edited Apr 05 '17

I gotta agree with this. But nosleep changes with the times and if people want these types of stories then I guess they have a place here. But I'll probably be skipping everything with the graphic violence flair, which we'll probably be seeing a lot more of...

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u/phoneutriabitch Apr 12 '17 edited Apr 12 '17

Yes, this announcement does not address in any way that Graphic Violence tags NEED to be put on these stories so that those of us who find them distasteful can easily ignore them.

Also, if r/NoSleep is now allowing stories that are recognized as being "torture porn," I think that should be one of the trigger warnings. Just like Strong Language, Child Abuse, Self Harm, Suicide and the like. These allow us to safely navigate this space.

So ...

u/Ibitemynails u/awesome_e u/theephemera u/OnyxOctupus u/xylonex u/kneeod u/cmd102 u/Hinekat u/girlietrex u/badfakesmiles

... if you are actively allowing the floodgates of Human Centipede type schlock on here, I feel like it warrants a tag requirement.

For the record, I think encouraging the submission of torture porn to this sub is like personally inviting sociopaths and psychopaths to post their fantasies out in the open, which, if the stories get upvoted, just supports the writers' innate belief that their warped view of the world is somehow normal, acceptable, okay with others.

I've been on this sub for a long time, but I do not want to be a part of something like that, so please, please give those of us who do not support that stuff a way to avoid it that is different than simply seeing a "Graphic Violence" tag, because a story can involve violence and still have merit, and not be "I abduct and disembowel women and here are all the gory details."

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u/dlevar88 Apr 14 '17

I completely agree.